FLAP's Work
Eleven interlocking practice areas — one mission
Access to technology, Access to financial assistance, Advocacy and Community Engagement, Community Navigator, Community Outreach and Education, Human Labor and Sex trafficking prevention, Dual Citizenship, Economic Mobility and Empowerment, Healthcare Access, Leadership and Professional Development, Legal Services and Community Legal Education — the work it takes to make sure low-wage workers and their families are treated with dignity
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Alexandra Sossa, in her own words.
FLAP's CEO recognized as Advocate of the Month, December 2012.
Human Labor and Sex trafficking
FLAP operates on the front lines to combat and prevent human labor and sex trafficking among vulnerable, low-wage workers across the food supply chain, greenhouse, nursery, landscaping, and snow removal industries.
Learn moreLeadership and Professional Development
FLAP is fully dedicated to supporting its team and the low-wage community in acquiring skills that will enhance their personal growth and benefit FLAP as an organization, ultimately allowing better services with high-impact.
Learn moreDual Citizenship
As a safeguard against the devastating effects of children, youth and family separation due to detention or deportation, FLAP runs the Dual Citizenship program, operating under the strategic goal to keep families together.
Learn moreAccess to financial assistance
FLAP provides cash transfers for low-wage workers and their families facing financial hardship.
Learn moreAccess to Technology
FLAP bridges the digital divide for low-wage worker families by expanding access to essential technology for children, youth and their families then, they can access better jobs.
Learn moreLegal Services and Community Legal Education
Free legal services and community legal education with focus on employment law, eviction, immigration and cannabis expungement.
Learn moreHealthcare Access
FLAP partners with healthcare providers to expand access to high-quality medical care, occupational safety education, and free or low-cost health resources for low-wage workers.
Learn moreEconomic Mobility
FLAP provides low-wage workers with the tools, skills, and legal resources necessary to overcome systemic barriers, secure better-paying jobs, achieve long-term financial stability, connection to financial empowerment programs, career pathways, and small-business support for working families.
Learn moreCommunity Outreach and Education
Instead of waiting for vulnerable workers to seek help, FLAP operates on a mobile, proactive model to eliminate barriers like geography, language, and fear of authority meeting more than 1,500 workers a week, where they are in fields, churches and consulates.
Learn moreCommunity Navigator
The Community Navigator Program at FLAP is a grassroots outreach and peer-education initiative integrated into the Illinois Access to Justice coalition. FLAP hires Community Navigators from the same low-wage community FLAP looks to help.
Learn moreAdvocacy and Community Engagement
Standing alongside low-wage workers, FLAP demands a systemic change for better working conditions and opportunities.
Learn moreWhere we reach
13 states, 7 consulates.
FLAP partners with seven Consulates General — Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru — to bring social and legal services to low-wage workers across the United States.
Coverage by state & consulate
Which consulates partner with FLAP in each state we serve.
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