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This section provides resources that may be especially helpful for individuals currently or recently involved in the criminal justice system; however, anyone in West Virginia seeking support or services may find them useful. Below, PDS lists a variety of organizations and resources that can assist with legal matters, mental health, housing, education, substance use, employment, and more.


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  • Legal Aid of West Virginia​​
    • Civil Legal Aid, Behavioral Health Advocacy, and Long-Term and Elder Care
    • Can assist with protection from domestic violence, divorce and family law, access to government benefits, consumer protection, housing disputes, and access to healthcare and education.
    • 12 offices around the state
  • ​WV State Law Library
    • Resources for doing your own legal research
  • West Virginia Senior Legal​ Aid
    • For people 60 and over
    • Provides quality legal services critical to senior citizens to protect their homes, income security, access to healthcare and other benefits, and their autonomy.
  • Other civil legal aid services and resources
    • Mountain State Justice, WVU Clinical Law Program, etc.
  • Free or Low-Cost Lawyers in WV
    • Civil offices and organizations that serve seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities, respectively.
  • WV State Bar Association
    • If you have a legal question or are looking for a lawyer.
  • ​​ West Virginia Bar Association's Tuesday Legal Connect
    • Volunteer lawyers from around the state take calls from the public, and offer suggestions and guidance about their questions every Tuesday evening from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. They can provide general legal information, but they cannot provide direct legal advice or legal assistance about your case.
  • WV State Bar Association
    • If you have a legal question or are looking for a lawyer.​
  • DMV DUI Safety and Treatment
    • Program run by WV DMV, consists of DUI education and a treatment assessment/screening.
  • Personal Injury Attorneys​
    • Free WV Legal Consultations
  • ​WV State Law Library
    • Resources for doing your own legal research
  • Parole Advocacy
    • A resource for family and friends of inmates up for parole to receive information about the process and how they can prepare for the parole hearing.
  • Collateral Consequences
    • A form for people who have just been convicted or taken a plea deal to go over with their attorney on the impacts that their criminal record could have on various aspects of their life.

  • Connect Child Care Resource & Referral
    • Provides parents with child care referrals and information on evaluating quality child care, plus resources on various parenting issues.
    • The State Opioid Response (SOR) grant sponsors free child care, after confirmed eligibility, through CCR&R to legal guardians in treatment or recovery services for substance use disorder
  • Home Base
    • Provides intensive parenting and life skills education to parents in effort to either assist parents maintain children in their homes, or to work toward family reunification when children have been removed from the home.  
  • Help Me Grow
    • Free referral service that connects families with critical developmental resources for their children, birth through five years.
  • WIC
    • Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
  • PATH Programs and Services
    • Family Assistance: School Clothing Allowance and Child Welfare sections
  • Family Court Forms - West Virginia Judiciary
    • Forms for Family Court Proceedings, Parenting Plans, Family Court Appeals, Modification of Child Support, etc.​
  • Information on Child Custody and Visitation

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  • Help4WV
    • Resource directory with map 
  • DV Legal Resources and FAQs
    • Legal Aid of West Virginia's domestic violence section of their self-help library.
  • National Domestic Violence Hotline
    • Hotline with options to call, chat, or text; website also gives the option to explore local resources.
  • Women's Resource Center 
    • Services and support are available 24 hours a day by calling their hotline at 304-255-2559 or email at help@wrcwv.org
    • Operates a 36-bed shelter (largest in the state) as well as outreach offices located in Raleigh (Beckley), Fayette (Fayetteville), Summers (Hinton), and Nicholas (Summersville) counties. 
    • Offers temporary emergency shelter, crisis intervention, individual therapeutic counseling, legal, personal, medical and systems advocacy, individual case management, 24 hour crisis hotline, information and referral, service planning and safety planning, support groups and programs to assist child witness and survivors of domestic and sexual violence. 
  • West Virginia Courts DV Resource Page
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