Phone: 410-625-LGBT (5428)
Fax: (410) 625-7423
Office:
FreeState Justice
2526 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21218
FreeState Justice is a legal advocacy organization that seeks to improve the lives of low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (“LGBTQ”) Marylanders. Despite recent, incremental judicial victories for the national LGBTQ community, the low-income LGBTQ population continues to struggle with legal challenges such harassment, complex family law issues, and anti-LGBTQ discrimination in employment, housing, foster care, healthcare and public accommodations. In addition to needing attorneys with specific knowledge of how the law affects LGBTQ citizens, LGBTQ clients need attorneys who will treat them with respect and understanding. FreeState’s mission is to combine direct legal services with education and outreach to ensure that the low-income LGBTQ community Maryland receives fair treatment in the law and society.
Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault
The SAFE TA project is funded by the Office on Violence Against Women, and is a national resource for Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners and Sexual Assault Response Team members on the National Protocol for Sexual Assault Medical Forensic Examinations. Through the helpline and website they offer information on the national protocol and training standards, a glossary of forensic terms, training programs, frequently asked questions, forms for download and news pertaining to sexual assault.
IAFN is the only international professional organization of registered nurses formed exclusively to develop, promote, and disseminate information about the science of forensic nursing nationally and internationally.The Office on Violence Againt Women (OVW) engaged in a Cooperative Agreement with the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) as a partner to assist in the nationwide dissemination of the National SAFE Protocol of 2004 and to provide technical assistance to those jurisdictions interested in implementing those recommendations.
The Center for Sex Offender Management’s primary goal is to enhance public safety by preventing further victimization through improving the management of sex offenders in the community. CSOM provides the most current information and effective practices to those responsible for managing sex offenders; captures lessons from communities around the country who have demonstrated — through collaboration between criminal justice and health system agencies — that they can manage sex offenders and increase public safety; disseminates those lessons; and provides the opportunity for other jurisdictions to draw upon these experiences, enhance their practices, and create similar results by offering a variety of technical assistance opportunities.