Mental Hygiene Legal Service, 2nd Judicial Department
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Description
Mental Hygiene Legal Service, 2nd Judicial Department
http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad2/mhls_mainpage.shtml
Services Offered for Following Legal Issues:
- Family and Safety > Guardianship of an adult
- Health and wills > Mental health
- Health and wills > Patients’ rights
Who We Are
The Mental Hygiene Legal Service (MHLS) is a New York State agency responsible for representing, advocating and litigating on behalf of individuals receiving services for a mental disability. We are a dedicated legal advocacy program providing a broad range of protective legal services and assistance to mentally disabled persons under the care or jurisdiction of State-operated or licensed facilities. We also provide representation and advocacy to sex offenders alleged to have mental abnormalities making them likely to re-offend and are therefore in need of civil confinement or intensive supervision.
Who We Serve
- Area(s): Dutchess County, Kings (Brooklyn) County, Nassau County, Orange County, Putnam County, Queens County, Richmond (Staten Island) County, Rockland County, Suffolk County, Westchester County
- Additional Service Area Info
- Our services are limited to individuals receiving or alleged to be in need of services for a mental illness or disability from a state operated or licensed facility or program.
- Circumstances and languages in which interpreters are provided
- We have funds to hire interpreters. In some offices we have staff speaking Spanish, Croatian, Creole, and Chinese. Interpreters are provided as needed both in and out of court.
- Is this organization accessible by wheelchair?: YES
- Does this organization provide access for the hearing impaired?: NO
- Eligibility Restrictions
- For help, you must be: a person with disabilities; or mentally ill
Type of Help
- This group provides the following types of services based on your legal needs and its resources:
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- Full Legal Representation
- Brief Advice
How to Get Help
You can contact this organization by:
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- Information
- Our staff attorneys generally initiate our involvement with clients when they have been notified that an individual is receiving or is alleged to need services either through faculty admissions lists or service of process upon us. Occasionally individuals may have brief questions. They may call us as follows:
1) Kings, Queens, Richmond: (718) 264-3480
2) Nassau, Suffolk: (631) 208-5319
3) Westchester, Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Dutchess: (845) 359-7901.
A poster with our telephone number is posted in every in-patient facility and our staff visits each facility and contacts the patients.
General Contact Information
- Address Mental Hygiene Legal Service, 2nd Judicial Department
- Phone 516-493-3976
- Fax (646) 963-6640
- Website http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad2/mhls_mainpage.shtml
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