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Catholic Family Center and Community Services (CCFCS)

  • Location:
    87 N. Clinton Ave
    Rochester, NY 14604
  • Phone:
    (585) 546-7220
  • Contact methods:
    Drop-in, Email, Mail/Letter, Phone calls, Website
  • Appointments accepted:
    Yes

Catholic Family Center (CFC) serves the Greater Rochester community as a multi-program human service agency. CFC's programs provide a full range of human services that support individuals and families in overcoming barriers that keep them from reaching their full human potential.

Counties served: Monroe

Services Provided

Are immigration legal services provided? Yes
Areas of immigration legal assistance: Adjustment of Status, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Employment authorization, Family-based petitions, Naturalization/Citizenship
Types of immigration legal services provided: Help completing forms, Filings with USCIS
Non-legal services: Citizenship / Civics classes, Employment services, ESL, Health services, Housing referrals, Language services, Psychological or psychiatric services, Referrals to other services, Social services
Populations served: Detained individuals, Individuals with physical/mental disabilities, Juveniles, Torture survivors
Languages spoken: Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Levantine), Bosnian, Burmese, Cambodian, Cantonese Chinese, English, Farsi, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Iraqi, Kirundi, Laotian, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Tigrinya, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Access to a commercial interpreting service or language bank: Yes
Nominal fee charged? Yes
Other information: Monthly legal consultations with immigration attorney and walk in hours for all CFC immigration services on Mondays 1-3pm

Staffing Information

Number of attorneys on staff: 0
Is organization BIA recognized? Yes
Number of fully accredited BIA representatives on staff: 0
Number of partially accredited BIA representatives on staff: 3
Number of paralegals/legal workers on staff: 4

Additional Details

Pro Bono opportunities? Yes
Network affiliations: Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC), Church World Service, Immigration Advocates Network, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, YMCA, New York Immigration Coalition

Administrative Information

Contact Person:
Bharati Verma
(585) 546-7220 ext. 4730
Executive Director:
Marlene Bessette
(585) 546-7220 ext. 7260
Types of contact/attempt: Email
Last contact date: January 2, 2018
Administrator comments: 9/17/12: tickler update 12/9/13: tickler 1/2/15: tickler 3/29/16: tickler 02 Jan 2018: tickler
IAN Members? Yes
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