JUNTA DIRECTIVA Virginia Villegas, Esq., Chair The Villegas Law Firm, APC Jessica Stender, Esq., Vice Chair Equal Rights Advocates Richard M. Pearl, Esq., Secretary/Treasurer Law Offices of Richard M. Pearl Aidín Castillo Mazantini, Esq. UC Immigrant Legal Services Center José R. Padilla, Esq. Adriana Sanchez Ochoa NextGen Policy Ricardo Torres Partner at The Capital Group Companies (retired) Maria Zamora Farmworker Silvia Garcia, Esq. In Memoriam (1968-2012) CRLA Foundation’s dedicated staff provides essential and crucial services to farmworkers and their families, who have been especially hard hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Farmworkers risk their lives everyday to put food on our tables by working in hazardous conditions, including pesticide exposure, heat stress, lack of shade, and often lacking clean drinking water. Further, despite being such essential workers, farmworkers are paid low wages, lack health insurance, and even lack access to preventive care. -Virginia Villegas, Board Chair Working with farmworker communities is important, because for me, these people are my abuelos, padres, tios, tias, primos and primas. They are familia and you always take care of familia. -Ruben Chavez, Former Board Member

CRLAF is a privately funded rural justice center focused serving farmworkers and low-wage laborers, regardless of immigration status. DONAR California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation FARM WORKER RIGHTS. HUMAN RIGHTS. Read Our Quarterly Update HERE CRLAF AI Request for Proposals In partnership with the University of California, Merced Labor Center, CRLA Foundation extends this Request for Proposals (RFP) to contract with an expert consultant to assist in the first steps in the development of a Rural Policy Framework to support our work to address threats and act upon opportunities related to the impacts of Artificial Intelligence in rural, immigrant communities, and workers in low-wage industries. Access the RFP! Farmworker + Immigrant Rights We are the sons and daughters of farmworkers. We believe justice and dignity are inalienable human rights, and fight for greater access for migrant farmworker and immigrant communities across the state. Read More > CRLA Foundation Joins UFW Foundation & United Farm Workers in Lawsuit Challenging Unlawful Farmworker Wage Cuts. New federal rule would slash farmworker pay by $5–$7 per hour and shift $2.46 billion annually from workers to employers—one of the largest wage transfers in U.S. agricultural history. Read More > Our Commitment is Steadfast CRLAF stands firmly with rural residents, partner organizations, legal aid providers, and other advocates to fight for family unity, justice and equity. Read More > See More News

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Richard M. Pearl, Esq., Chair Law Offices of Richard M Pearl "I first got involved with farm workers when I started working with CRLA INC, in the in 1975. In the early 1980s when legal aid was under attack on a national level, we knew lobbying in particular. would be under attack; that's when CRLAF was born. Today, thanks to a cadre of visionary supporters, CRLAF remains privately funded legal aid program, doing incredibly important work that federally funded legal aid organizations are prohibited from doing." Rosa Armendariz Diablo Valley College Joseph Jaramillo, Esq. Housing & Economic Rights Advocates "I think that it’s difficult to pass strong protective legislation given the power and influence of big agribusinesses.That is why it is so important to have an organization like CRLA Foundation advocating for needed changes." Manuel Magana Retired Farm Worker "I started working with United Farmworkers (UFW) in the 1970s. By the 1980s legal aid was under fire and we had to find another way to continue the important work. I am proud to have been on the forefront of creating CRLA Foundation. We have worked really hard for the rights of the farm workers for many years and still there are many things that need to change. One of the achievements in this fight is that farm workers now have access to a bathroom wherever they are working." Rosario Vásquez Community Representative Virginia Villegas, Esq. Villegas Carrera LLP "Over the years, I've seen first-hand the legislative work they engage in and the positive effects it has for low-wage workers throughout the state. CRLAF not only provides legal representation, but advocates on behalf of marginalized communities. If it were not for CRLAF these communities would not be getting the critical services they need."

ACERCA DE CRLAF Nuestra misión Nuestra misión es lograr la justicia social y la equidad en asociación con los trabajadores agrícolas y todos los trabajadores de bajos salarios y sus familias en las comunidades rurales a través de la defensa comunitaria, legislativa y legal. Nuestra visión es que todos los trabajadores agrícolas y sus familias sean tratados con dignidad y respeto. Quienes somos CRLAF es una organización estatal de asistencia legal civil sin fines de lucro que brinda servicios legales gratuitos y abogacía de políticas para los pobres rurales de California. Nos centramos en algunas de las comunidades más marginadas: las no representadas, las no organizadas y las indocumentadas. Nos involucramos en educación y divulgación comunitaria, litigios de impacto, defensa legislativa y administrativa, y liderazgo en políticas públicas a nivel estatal y local. Buscamos lograr la justicia social para las comunidades rurales pobres trabajando para abordar las necesidades más apremiantes de nuestra comunidad: trabajo, vivienda, equidad educativa, acceso a la atención médica, seguridad laboral, ciudadanía, inmigración y justicia ambiental Del director ejecutivo En 1981, un grupo de visionarios de la justicia se unieron para formar la California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. Esta organización pequeña y poderosa se creó en respuesta a las rígidas restricciones impuestas a los programas de servicios legales con fondos federales, restricciones que limitaban el acceso a la justicia para las familias trabajadoras. Gracias a SU apoyo, CRLAF está en primera línea y en el Capitolio Estatal luchando por la justicia y empleando los mecanismos más efectivos para lograr un cambio social para la población rural pobre. A medida que avanzamos, nuestro objetivo es llegar al mayor número posible de personas en todo el Valle Central y la California rural para garantizar que las familias de estatus mixto conozcan sus derechos y responsabilidades bajo la ley. Continuaremos a: participar en la promoción y reforma de políticas legislativas; informar a la comunidad, las escuelas y otras organizaciones comunitarias a través de presentaciones y kits de información "Conozca sus derechos"; proporcionar clínicas legales para evaluar el alivio de inmigración y ayudar con las solicitudes de naturalización; y representar a individuos y familias en asuntos de derechos civiles. Aunque puede ser difícil imaginar los obstáculos que enfrentaremos bajo la nueva administración, la realidad es que siempre hemos estado aquí para apoyar a nuestras comunidades, y con su asociación seguiremos siendo una fuente de información, esperanza y empoderamiento. . USTED puede ayudar: juntos podemos ayudar a los pobres de las zonas rurales de California a mejorar sus condiciones económicas, sociales y políticas y a participar más cívicamente en sus comunidades. Renueve su compromiso y done $ 50, $ 100, $ 250 o más a CRLAF hoy. Envíe un mensaje claro y rotundo de que defendemos los derechos humanos, los derechos de los inmigrantes y la dignidad para todos. Nuestro compromiso de proporcionar servicios legales de calidad a los trabajadores agrícolas, sus hijos y los trabajadores de bajos salarios en todo California rural es firme. Nos honra ser su socio en la lucha por la dignidad y la justicia para todos. En solidaridad, Amagda Pérez

EQUIDAD EDUCATIVA Ampliación de oportunidades a través de la equidad educativa El Proyecto de Educación brinda asistencia técnica, apoyo de defensa y capacitación a proyectos de servicios legales, instituciones educativas primarias y secundarias, otras entidades públicas y personas de bajos ingresos en todo el estado. El Proyecto de Educación se dedica a la defensa legislativa y administrativa en torno a cuestiones de derecho educativo, en particular la educación bilingüe. El Proyecto de Educación participa en una serie de grupos de trabajo estatales relacionados con la política educativa.

Free legal assistance with DACA renewals for rural California resdents DACA: Asistencia legal gratuita Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia El programa de Acción Diferida para los Llegados en la Infancia, o DACA, permite a los inmigrantes elegibles que ingresaron al país a una edad temprana sin estatus para solicitar permisos de trabajo y aplazamientos temporales de deportaciones. Hay aproximadamente 800,000 receptores de DACA; 1 de cada 4 receptores de DACA vive en comunidades rurales. Aunque no es un camino hacia el estatus legal permanente o la ciudadanía, DACA ofrece una oportunidad para que los jóvenes indocumentados salgan de las sombras, se esfuercen por alcanzar sus sueños y aumenten sus contribuciones a la vitalidad social y económica de nuestra sociedad. CRLAF ofrece asistencia legal gratuita con las renovaciones de DACA y también ofrece talleres críticos Conozca sus derechos a los campus universitarios y organizaciones comunitarias en toda la zona rural de California. Para obtener más información sobre los próximos talleres, cómo programar una cita y sobre las becas para las tarifas de renovación de DACA, consulte nuestras publicaciones recientes a continuación. Para hablar con un miembro del equipo, llame al 916-446-7901. Aún no hay ninguna entrada publicada en este idioma Una vez que se publiquen entradas, las verás aquí.

Critical information and resources to help immigrant communities navigate this challenging time. ACERCA DE CRLAF California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF) and the Sacramento Family Unity, Education, and Legal (FUEL) Network for Immigrants are committed to supporting and serving immigrants throughout the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and have compiled critical information and resources to help immigrant communities navigate this challenging time. We will continue updating this document throughout the pandemic as much of this information is rapidly changing on a daily basis. Eng/Esp-Información en Medi-Cal para inmigrantes (2024) Coronavirus Resources (2020) Recursos de Coronavirus (2020) Julio 2020 COVID-19 Recursos é Informacion Más > Hemos recopilado información importante y recursos para ayudar a las comunidades migrantes a navegar este tiempo difícil. Continuaremos actualizando este documento durante de la pandemia, puesto que mucha de esta información cambia constantemente. (actualizado a partir del 20 de julio de 2020) April 2020 Salubridad Laboral Video En Español > Esta infografía tiene información sobre sus derechos como trabajador de California, sus derechos al salario mínimo, sobretiempo, descansos, no han cambiado. PDF Download > Labor + Civil Rights July 2020 COVID-19 Resources and Information Read More > Critical information and resources to help immigrant communities navigate this challenging time. We will continue updating this document throughout the pandemic as much of this information is rapidly changing on a daily basis. (updated July 20, 2020) April 2020 SDI en California Video en Español > Esta infografía tiene información sobre que es el Seguro de Discapacidad disponible para los trabajadores de California, sin importar su estatus legal. PDF Download > Labor + Civil Rights April 2020 Derechos de los Trabajadores Video En Español > Esta infografía tiene información sobre sus derechos como trabajador de California, sus derechos al salario mínimo, sobretiempo, descansos, no han cambiado. PDF Download > Labor + Civil Rights April 2020 Dispensario de Comida Video En Español > Esta infografía le explica cómo encontrar dispensarios de comida (food banks) por internet cercas de usted. PDF Download > Labor + Civil Rights

Your 2018 Impact Report: See the Impact of your donation. CRLAF 2022 Impact Report Dear Friends and Supporters, The past two years have been filled with unprecedented challenges raised by a global pandemic that has turned every aspect of our normal lives upside down and wildfires that continue to push low-wage workers into greater economic insecurity. At the same time, CRLAF has stepped up to do what is needed to protect the rights of rural Californians. Amagda Pérez, Executive Director CRLAF advocates have worked around the clock developing timely and culturally responsive information on COVID resources and fighting for worker and tenant protections, safe living conditions for H2-A workers, adequate lighting for night-time work, wildfire protections, heat illness prevention, health for all, and access to legal and other lifeline services for rural communities. We have provided legal assistance to aggrieved workers, families seeking education equity, and immigrants seeking to regularize their immigration status. We also secured release of individuals from ICE detention, defended migrants in removal proceedings, and assisted hundreds to apply for benefits that protect family unity. As we continue to respond to statewide emergencies and ensure that the most vulnerable in our communities have the protections and support that they need, we thank you for your support and shared commitment to ensuring that farm workers, other low-wage workers and their families have access to high-quality legal representation and access to equal justice. Our work has brought hope and improved the working and living conditions of countless rural families. Thank you for standing with us in our fight for justice, equity, dignity, and respect for our clients. We are proud to carry forward Justice Cruz Reynoso's legacy of service and ensure that every person has access to justice, regardless of their socioeconomic and immigration status. Respectfully, Amagda Pérez Executive Director 2022 IMPACT REPORT California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation LABOR + EMPLOYMENT PROJECT CRLAF engages in policy advocacy at the local, state, and federal levels. In 2022, we tracked more than 60 state and federal bills, and sponsored and supported legislation seeking to expand labor law protections for H-2A farm workers and other rural low-wage workers, and opposed bills which eroded or eliminated those protections. We provided written or oral communication to committees; signed on to support/ opposition letters; and held conversations with key political staff. We also monitored all new H-2A applications for large numbers of guest workers in key counties, and advocated for H-2A and US farm workers with the US Department of Labor (DOL) and California Employment Development Department (EDD). Specifically, CRLAF su pported SJR 11, AB 2183, AB 2300, SB 951, and] HR 1603. H-2A Monitoring and Advocacy: CRLAF sponsored AB 857, the "California Legal Rights Disclosure Act for H-2A Farm Workers,” that would mandate employers’ single required written notice with information on roughly two dozen California laws/regulatory protections be in Spanish. We are working with the Labor Commissioner on another draft of AB 857, to ensure farm workers are provided clear, concrete, and straightforward information on their rights prior to their start of employment. The original text would have also codified for the first time in California law H-2A workers’ right to be paid for time spent in employers' vehicles while traveling between employers' housing and field worksites. CRLAF and other advocates have pending actions to recover these stolen wages; the estimated unpaid travel time for the 25,000+ H-2A workforce in 2021 was between $50-60 million dollars. In 2022, CRLAF helped review and analyze more than 200 California H-2A job orders seeking approval for over 20,000 workers, and found that a very high percentage contain false or misleading information about housing, transportation pay, and other key H-2A job terms that violate California law. We regularly collaborate with DOL, EDD, California's Housing and Community Development agency, and other regulatory bodies to protect and prioritize the housing and labor rights of farm workers across the state. PAGA Defense: CRLAF and CRLA were the original sponsors of the Private Attorney General Act (PAGA), a unique statute providing a mechanism for enforcement of basic labor law protections. We continue to collaborate with the legislature, labor unions, and trial lawyers to defend PAGA. RURAL HOUSING PROJECT CRLAF educates rural, low-income tenants and home-owners on their rights, brings impact litigation cases, and engages in housing advocacy at the state and national levels to maintain access to affordable housing and keep our most vulnerable residents housed. In 2022, CRLAF and the California Coalition for Rural Housing successfully expanded state funding for farm worker housing through the Joe Serna Farm Worker Housing Grant Program. We also co-sponsored and supported AB 1654, Funding for Farm Worker Housing, which increases farm worker housing funds by automatically setting-aside a percentage whenever the state augments the main tax credit; and AB 2339 Emergency Shelters, which closes loopholes in cities and counties’ meeting low-income households’ housing needs, including the unsheltered, and the identification of real sites for shelters. In October 2022, CRLAF and Western Center on Law and Poverty held a biennial Housing Summit, connecting legal services advocates and local groups to discuss issues impacting our shared communities, develop solutions, and define priorities for the upcoming two-year legislative session. PESTICIDE + WORKER SAFETY CRLAF works with various partners to improve enforcement of existing pesticide and work health and safety protections and advocate for greater health protective policies to reduce exposure to pesticides and work hazards including heat, wildfire smoke, and other climate conditions threatening rural health. Legislative + Regulatory Updates: Over the past year, CRLAF supported AB 1787, which enhances lab test reporting requirements to better protect agricultural pesticide applicators; SB 1044, which prohibits retaliation against employees (with exceptions for certain job types) for refusing to work inside an evacuation zone and requires employees’ access to communication devices for emergency use; and AB 211, which increases fines for pesticide safety violations. CRLAF joined other labor advocates in successfully opposing Monarch Tractor's petition to revise Cal-OSHA regulations to allow autonomous tractor use, including on farm roads and in fields where workers are on the ground harvesting. The petition was denied because driverless vehicle technology does not yet have a proven record of reliability. Though Cal-OSHA’s COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard will expire at the end of 2022, CRLAF helped assure the proposal of a non-emergency, two-year regulation preserving key protections in indoor worksites and employer-provided housing to take its place. CRLAF also worked to help develop a Cal-OSHA date palm work platform safety standard, and will participate in an advisory committee over the coming year to help draft a workplace violence prevention standard and finalize an Indoor Heat Illness Prevention Standard. Preventing agricultural work inside wildfire evacuation zones also remains a CRLAF priority. In September, 2022, Sonoma County adopted an Agriculture Pass program allowing some entry into evacuation zones for animal care and irrigation, but not harvest work. Sacramento County is now developing their own program with our input. Protection from pesticide exposure: CRLAF is a plaintiff in an Earthjustice challenge regarding the use of the extremely toxic herbicide paraquat. We actively participate in the Californians for Pesticide Reform Coalition to compel the Department of Pesticide Regulation and County Agricultural Commissioners to improve pesticide regulation enforcement and language access. CRLAF has also advocated for years to tighten restrictions on use of the carcinogenic soil fumigant 1,3 dichloropropene. SUSTAINABLE RURAL COMMUNITIES PROJECT (SRCP) SRCP works with partners and communities to develop and implement policies addressing systemic issues of poverty, poor health faced by disadvantaged migrant farm worker and immigrants. Legislation: SRCP supported three dozen bills during the final legislative session of 2022, and sponsored SB 558, Farm Worker Climate Resilience and Adaptation Program, which would have established a farm worker task force and granting program to farm worker-serving organizations. CRLAF helped win $1.5 million to update 20-year old data through a Farm Worker Health Study. CRLAF collaborated with author UC Merced on the advisory steering committee to ensure the study’s completion in June, 2022. CRLAF prioritized the Health4All campaign, which successfully expanded Medi-Cal coverage to eligible undocumented immigrants ages 26-49. We continue to celebrate this historic win granting California’s immigrant community access to care and health coverage. This expansion will go into effect on January 1, 2024, and is in addition to the May 1, 2022 expansion for undocumented residents over 50 years of age. We look forward to continuing to provide eligibility-related education to increase immigrant enrollment. Health + Immigration Work: To prepare residents for advocacy engagements, CRLAF hosted quarterly trainings and policy briefings, as well as sent regular alert updates on shelter-in-place ordinances, housing protections, nutrition programs, DACA public charge, and state vs. federal, and other privately funded COVID-19 economic relief programs. When possible, we provided direct application assistance, since many forms must be completed online and in English. Environmental Work: Since 2015, SRCP has administered the Interim Emergency Bottled Water Project for Fresno County’s unincorporated communities of Cantua Creek and El Porvenir, providing safe drinking water to 166 rural households (over 700 residents). We work with the Water Resources Control Board to ensure uninterrupted water delivery until the County completes a permanent water system. SRCP Leadership Roles: CRLAF organizes trainings and townhalls to educate partners and stakeholders on all proposed and or realized changes in policies, the critical role of affordable and expanded healthcare access, and the health and economic injuries resulting from inequitable vaccine access and discriminatory COVID 19 relief initiatives. We participate in various education campaigns on these topics as well as provide interviews for local newspapers, and on Spanish radio and television. Over the past year, SRCP led a coalition of 12 local organizations to prioritize farm workers as essential workers, which resulted in the vaccination of thousands of individuals. CRLAF has recently served as fiscal agent for two statewide regranting programs addressing equitable access to COVID-19 care and workplace safety, and chronic drought issues faced by farm worker communities. We continue to convene the COVID-19 Farm Worker and Rural Immigrant Community Advocacy Coalition, composed of 12 farm worker and immigrant-serving organizations, and the Central Valley Legal Defense Fund (CVLDF), a group of attorneys, and local community and faith leaders dedicated to raising and providing funding for residents placed in immigration removal proceedings. CRLAF also leads and will once again draft the annual policy platform for the San Joaquin Valley Health Fund’s IHHEEL (Immigration, Health, Housing, Education, Environmental Justice and Land Use and Planning) Health and Immigration Policy Subcommittees, involving over 30 immigrant and refugee-serving Central Valley organizations. LABOR + CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION UNIT The Labor and Civil Rights Litigation Unit provides legal representation to farm workers and low-income workers in rural California ineligible for (Legal Services Corporation) LSC-program services, and who may be best represented in a class action. In 2022, the Unit handled a variety of issues and cases, including defeating a Sheriff’s motion to dismiss on a forceful eviction; filing appellate briefs with the Ninth Circuit on the issue of client employer; defending tenants in unlawful detainer cases; assisting tenants assert their rights to habitable housing; co authoring two amicus briefs and participating on a third amicus brief; litigating cases in federal and bankruptcy courts; and collaborating with partners to co-host housing clinics and address education issues affecting migrant farm worker families. Outreach Efforts: In our third round of the statewide COVID Worker Outreach Program (CWOP), CRLAF has conducted field observations, door-to-door outreach, and participated in community events to protect access to rural health and other supportive safety-net services. Advocates traveled thousands of miles to provide information on workplace protections under COVID-19, sick leave, access to testing and vaccines, housing and other related labor rights, and distributed personal protection equipment to prevent COVID-19 contagion, and wildfire smoke and pesticide related illness. We partnered with local agencies, health providers, and religious organizations to organize and host vaccination clinics. Through this project, CRLAF reached more than 20,000 Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley residents. We are currently providing financial assistance information to prevent foreclosures to low-income residents in the Sacramento Valley behind on their mortgage. In the past year, CRLAF attorneys offered training for families and local organizations on housing and employment, and co-hosted three housing and tenants’ rights clinics. Amicus Brief + Support: CRLAF co-authored an amicus brief with CRLA, Inc. on a PAGA case before the U.S. Supreme Court in Viking River Cruises v. Mariana, and partnered with CRLA, Inc. to write an amicus brief to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board in Cinagro Farms, Inc., involving a group of farm workers misclassified as independent contractors. CRLAF also participated in the drafting of an amicus brief with CRLA, Inc. on a PAGA case before the California Supreme Court in Adolph v. Uber Technologies. Current Cases: CRLAF has been grateful for the opportunity to expand our housing work by recently bringing on a Housing Law Attorney and Legal Fellow, and training new attorneys. We continue prioritizing class actions that QLSPs are unable to take, and serving workers and tenants who do not qualify for QLSP services. These cases involve farm workers experiencing labor violations such as unpaid overtime or full hours worked, failure to provide meals, rest periods, and legal documents including leases, paystubs, and letters of employment. Cases also include tenants experiencing inhumane housing conditions in apartments, migrant labor camps, or mobile home parks, unlawful detainers, and improper evictions. Most cases are overshadowed by threats to our clients’ immigration status as a way of forcing compliance. Last winter, CRLAF joined the Sacramento Environmental Justice Coalition. As the only legal aid in this coalition, we provide information on tenant rights and how to assert them, with particular focus on the eviction process and the right to remain in one's home. We are excited about additional opportunities this partnership will bring, including identifying impact housing and employment cases. CRLAF is currently investigating two housing cases involving housing provided to migrant farm worker families, and a landlord who failed to provide habitable housing and threatened their tenant with deportation, based on their perception of the tenant’s immigration status. Finally, CRLAF is investigating serious education inequities faced by migrant students and English learners, looking into possible redress with a few partners, and considering litigation. The Unit aims to file 2-3 class actions or impact litigation cases in 2023. CITIZENSHIP + IMMlGRATION PROJECT CRLAF’s team of DOJ accredited representatives, attorneys, paralegals, and advocates worked tirelessly over the past year to provide education and outreach, consultations, applications for affirmative immigration relief, and technical assistance for service providers. We continued to support community college students and educators by offering legal services, presentations, and trainings, and have recently taken a regional administrator role, working with community-based organizations to provide DACA and Naturalization application filing fee assistance to community members throughout the Central Valley. Removal Defense Project: The need for removal defense services has grown exponentially, due to pro se hearings being scheduled for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition to full-scope representation, many of our services over the past year were focused on developing and providing pro se assistance, such as covering dockets through the Attorney of the Day program, staffing detained consultation sessions, and providing limited-scope assistance. The new Immigrant Health Equity Project manages CRLAF’s Public Charge hotline, providing individualized legal counsel on health access, as well as legal and education services on immigrant access to healthcare and public benefits, with a focus on pandemic relief programs, Public Charge policies, and Medi-Cal expansions. Sacramento Family, Unity, Education, + Legal (FUEL) Network for Immigrants: The City Council of Sacramento established the Sacramento Family Unity, Education, and Legal (FUEL) Network for Immigrants in 2017, for which CRLAF continues to serve as fiscal lead. The FUEL Network is a robust collaborative of over 80 Sacramento community-based organizations, legal services providers, volunteer attorney groups, labor unions, faith-based groups, and educational institutions providing critical informational and legal services to immigrant communities. COMMUNITY ADVOCACY + SPECIAL PROJECTS CRLAF reinforced its commitment to protecting the health and well-being of low-income, essential workers and their families, as one of the few organizations conducting outreach and field monitoring throughout the pandemic. Our regular community presence encouraged workers’ confidence to reveal various civil rights violations, which were brought to our Immigration and Litigation Units to assess eligibility for benefits and representation. Over the past year, CRLAF uncovered a number of education inequities exacerbated under pandemic conditions, which impact the education of immigrant and/or English Learners, especially the children of migrant farm workers. CRLAF has seen districts discontinue transportation for rural areas; while California law does not guarantee the right to school transportation, it has greatly affected farm worker parents who start work before sunrise, and are unable to take their children to school on time. This has resulted in students being transported to and from school in overcrowded and unsafe vehicles and/or missing school. Migrant farm worker families living in labor camps must also leave every winter due to mandatory camp closures. These migrant students face being dis-enrolled from their schools as they are unable to return before the start of the spring semester; final exam dates that are scheduled a day before their move out date from the camps; and not obtaining all of the appropriate credits when they leave the state. CRLAF has also recently encountered major habitability problems, including entire apartment complexes, mobile homes parks, and labor camps with infestations of cockroaches, mice, mold, broken windows, torn screens, unsafe plumbing, and dirt floors. Residents have expressed concern about racist landlords and housing managers. We continue to hold Know Your Rights presentations and distribute informational flyers to labor camps, work crews, housing projects, churches, and local events to educate and work with our communities toward greater legal justice. This past year brought both exciting opportunities and challenges for the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. We launched several ambitious statewide projects, while pivoting to address emerging needs in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires, other natural disasters, and policies that do not prioritize, nor consider our rural, underserved communities. In 2023, we will build upon the accomplishments of our past 41 years to continue protecting California’s farm workers, rural low-wage workers, and migrant families’ rights and access to legal justice. Please join us in assisting rural Californians access equal justice. Support like yours expands civic participation and helps to create a more just future for all Californians, regardless of their immigration and socioeconomic status. THANK YOU DONORS + SUPPORTERS CRLAF is ever grateful to our grantors, as well as individual supporters, without whom our work would not be possible. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you to all of those who gave throughout 2022. All gifts are directly invested into the communities we serve, expanding rural, migrant and mixed-status families' access to services and justice through legal action, advocacy, and education.

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Your 2018 Impact Report: See the Impact of your donation. Your 2019 Impact Report SEE THE IMPACT OF YOUR DONATION Hover over each block to learn more. Workers' RIGHTS Advocacy Workers' RIGHTS Advocacy represented 1,420 low-wage Workers in class action litigation DACA 350+ Dreamers Applied for DACA Renewal Anti-TRAFFICKING Education and outreach 1,428 Farm workers learned to identify signs of trafficking and where to find help Bills Sponsored and Enacted into law 9 bills to expand affordable housing, protect workers' rights & immigrant rights. Clean Drinking Water Clean Drinking Water 790 people in 2 farmworker towns received clean drinking water $4,250,000 stolen Wages recovered for low-wage workers Undocu-ally trainings 425+ Educators & service providers trained on how to better support immigrant students & families Rapid Response Networks Rapid Response Networks 2 Rapid Response networks established, serving Sacramento & San Joaquin Valley know your rights 3,500 people reached Emergency Family Safety Plans 435+ mixed status families received legal counsel on how to prepare safety plans in case of ICE enforcement Citizenship Citizenship 200+ people applied for Citizenship Pesticide & community Safety Advocacy to end use of 2 toxic pesticides. Achieve greater enforcement of Pesticide Use restrictions. increase protections for pesticide handlers & fieldworkers

CONSIGUE AYUDA Nuestros servicios son siempre gratuitos y ayudamos a los residentes rurales de bajos ingresos, independientemente de su estado migratorio. No ayudamos con casos criminales. Centramos nuestro trabajo en las áreas de: salud de los trabajadores agrícolas derechos civiles equidad educativa trabajo y empleo inmigración y ciudadanía pesticidas y seguridad de los trabajadores vivienda rural acceso a la salud para todos construyendo comunidades rurales sostenibles Si no ve su problema en la lista, visite www.lawhelpca.org para encontrar un programa de asistencia legal que pueda ayudarlo. Por favor llame al 916-446-7901 para asistencia o para aprender más sobre los próximos talleres de inmigración y naturalización.

COMUNIDADES RURALES SOSTENIBLES El Proyecto de Comunidades Rurales Sostenibles trabaja para garantizar el acceso equitativo a la atención médica para los trabajadores agrícolas y la población indigente rural de California a través de una estrategia de tres partes de desarrollo, análisis y difusión de datos sobre el estado de salud; análisis y discusión de políticas públicas; y alcance comunitario, educación y defensa. El proyecto aborda las causas sistémicas de la pobreza, la mala salud y el medio ambiente degradado de nuestras comunidades. El proyecto aboga por trabajar juntos en una estrategia coordinada local, regional y estatal que está elaborando soluciones sistémicas en torno a la atención médica para todos, cuestiones de justicia ambiental (uso de la tierra, necesidades de tránsito insatisfechas, calidad del agua), fomentando una gobernanza más responsable e inclusiva, y dirigiendo recursos financieros que abordan las prioridades del SRCP para las comunidades rurales y desfavorecidas. ____________________________________________________________________________________ CRLAF ha sido fundamental para liderar la lucha colaborativa por la atención médica ampliada para los indocumentados en las zonas rurales de California, con especial énfasis en el Condado de Fresno y el Condado de Sacramento, incluida la preservación del Programa de Servicios Médicamente Indigentes (MISP) y, más recientemente, Atención especializada. CRLAF también ha jugado un papel decisivo en la lucha para organizar la comunidad en torno a Health Care 4 All y obtener el Proyecto de Ley 4 del Senado a través de la legislatura. El 2 de junio de 2015, el Senado del Estado de California hizo historia al aprobar esta importante pieza de legislación propuesta que ampliaría la cobertura de salud a la población indocumentada de California.