Health and Social Justice

Canal Alliance strives to achieve Health and Social Justice for community members by encouraging them to advocate on their own behalf and by improving access to services.

Multicultural Family Advocacy (MFA)
MFA provides multilingual social advocacy and support to thousands of families annually. Our advocates provide clients with a variety of services, including family-centered, strengths-based case management; referral service; improving health access; wage recovery; mediation and intervention; as well as a job board and application support.

Other programs in the MFA department include:

Wage Recovery Assistance helps to resolve disputes over non-payment of wages caused when employers underpay or withhold pay from workers. This program educates both employers and employees about labor and safety issues.

Emergency Food Distribution, in partnership with the Marin Community Food Bank and Marin Organic, provides food to the very needy

Emergency Needs Fund offers short-term financial assistance

Domestic Violence:

Dignidad is a support group for women who are victims of domestic violence and

Respeto provides counseling for perpetrators of domestic violence

Probation Advocacy Program is bilingual outreach in the county jail to help assure fair treatment and to reduce recidivism

Compañeras provides birth coaching training to volunteers so that they may assist monolingual Spanish-speaking women to access life-saving pre- and post-natal health care.