Consumer Services Guide (CSG)
Consumer Action Edition
The Consumer Services Guide is searchable directory of resources which can help you with consumer problems and questions. There are multiple editions of the ‘Guide’, some which deal with specific issues such as housing or credit. The full directory, the Consumer Service Guide Edition, provides access to all the resources collected by Consumer Action.
Records Found: 228
- Hearing Industries Association
The Hearing Industries Association (HIA) was formed in 1955 and serves as a forum for hearing aid manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and hearing health professionals. Our members are responsible for the majority of the over 3 million hearing aids that are purchased in the United States on an annual basis. - Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA)
HLAA provides assistance and resources for people with hearing loss and their families to learn how to adjust to living with hearing loss. HLAA is working to eradicate the stigma associated with hearing loss and raise public awareness about the need for prevention and the importance of regular hearing screenings throughout life. - Home Improvement Branch, (HUD)
Facts and pitfalls of home improvement. Sources that can help includes: federal loan programs, community-based programs, and consumer information. - Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
Housing Rights Committee is a tenants rights organization that offers free counseling for San Francisco tenants in all types of housing, including rent-control, public housing and Section 8. - Human Services Information And Referral (Sonoma County)
Provides information and referrals of available resources within Sonoma County. Bilingual (Spanish-English). - Idaho - Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
Idaho DMV site has been created to help you renew or register for a drivers license, find DMV forms, practice tests, drivers ed & traffic schools, auto insurance, or just about anything else related to Idaho DMV. - Indoor Environments Division (IED) of Environmental Protection Agency
The Indoor Environments Division (IED), located within the Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (ORIA), under the Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), is responsible for implementing EPA’s Indoor Environments Program, a voluntary (non-regulatory) program to address indoor air pollution. EPA’s Indoor Environments Division seeks to reduce human health risks posed by contaminants in indoor environments. IED analyzes those risks based on sound science, and… - Inland Fair Housing and Mediation Board (IFHMB)
The agency was established in 1980 and has been spirited in the fight against discrimination in housing. IFHMB continues to educate the community at large about their rights and responsibilities under fair housing laws. - Instituto Laboral de la Raza
For over 27 years, the Instituto Laboral de la Raza has served low income families of California as a nonprofit advocacy and workers’ resource center. Headquartered in the Mission District of San Francisco, with a field office in San Jose, the Instituto provides legal services, peer counseling, financial education and access to a network of services to the unorganized working poor. Most of their clients… - Insurance Information Institute
The mission of the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) is to improve public understanding of insurance—what it does and how it works. For more than 40 years, the I.I.I. has provided definitive insurance information. Today, the I.I.I. is recognized by the media, governments, regulatory organizations, universities and the public as a primary source of information, analysis and referral concerning insurance. Each year, the I.I.I. works on… - Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy
The Coalition’s direct objective is to encourage curriculum enrichment to ensure that basic personal financial management skills are attained during the K-12 educational experience. - KGO-Radio/Consumer File 810 KGO-TV/Seven On Your Side
Call for advice, referrals and mediation service. Consumer reports are aired daily on KGO-Radio (AM 810) and Channel 7 news. - Koreatown Youth and Community Center, Inc. (KYCC)
Provides counseling, information and referral services in Korean. - L.A. Center for Law and Justice
Since 1973, the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice (“LACLJ”) has provided high quality free legal representation, education, and advocacy to low-income residents and communities of East, Northeast and Southeast Los Angeles. They specialize in family, housing, and government benefits law. They perform these services for our clients to improve their fundamental living conditions and to empower them to achieve self-sufficiency. - LA County 211
211 LA County is dedicated to providing an easy-to-use, caring, professional source of guidance, advocacy, and 24/7 per week access to a comprehensive range of human services to the people of Los Angeles County. Their goal is to improve the quality of life for all residents of Los Angeles County by helping them to locate, access and effectively use essential community health and human services. - La Luz Bilingual Center Of Sonoma Valley
La Luz is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping immigrants succeed in Sonoma Valley. La Luz provides education, employment-related guidance and referrals, social and family counseling, and other support services designed to assist our clients in overcoming barriers and becoming more fully integrated into our community. - Lakewood City - Fair Housing Information
Lakewood has developed a fair housing program, which includes: - Education - Counseling - Resolving landlord/tenant disputes: - Providing health and safety - Mailing landlord/tenant guidebooks, printed by the Department of Consumer Affairs, as follow-up to inquiries - Providing Section 8 rental assistance referrals when available - Providing counseling and resolution of housing discrimination allegations - Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center
The Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center at Gallaudet University provides information, training, and technical assistance for parents and professionals to meet the needs of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. Their mission is to improve the quality of education afforded to deaf and hard of hearing students from birth to age 21 throughout the United States. - Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA)
As LA's frontline law firm for low-income people, LAFLA promotes access to justice, strengthens communities, combats discrimination, and effects systemic change through representation, advocacy, and community education. The Inner City Law Office consists of the Bill Smith Homeless Veterans Project. The Housing/ Eviction Defense unit advocates for the creation and preservation of safe and affordable housing. We help low-income tenants stay in their homes when… - Legal Aid of Marin County
Legal Aid’s mission is to improve social justice, economic equity, and opportunity and to assure due process and equal protection of the law by providing low-income and vulnerable Marin residents (children, seniors, immigrants, people with disabilities, and the homeless) with access to high-quality, effective legal services, including direct representation and pro per support services, and through affirmative litigation. - Legal Aid Society of San Diego Inc
Provides legal services on issues involving juvenile court, criminal court, immigration, housing, Social Security, health, family law and some consumer issues. - Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County provides free, quality civil legal services to San Mateo County’s low-income residents. Their advocacy has evolved with the times; they fought for civil rights in the 1960s and fair wages for farmworkers in the 1980s. Today their work encompasses more broad areas, you can visit their website for more information. - Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County
The Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County (LAS) is a non-profit corporation founded in 1960 to provide free, civil legal services for those low-income persons unable to obtain access to the judicial system through other avenues. As Silicon Valley’s economy has grown, the unique diversity of the area has made the needs of families in poverty more complex. Their representation ensures that their clients… - Little Tokyo Service Center
Provides counseling, information and referral services. Their Housing & Real Estate Development program develops affordable housing units. - Los Angeles County Bar Association
The Los Angeles County Bar Association offers referrals to private attorneys for all areas of law. A Service representative can arrange a free 30 minute consultation with a qualified pre-screened attorney for members of the public. The phone number to call is (213) 243-1525. You can also visit http://www.smartlaw.org.
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