This innovative program aims to support participants in many ways now that the world has so dramatically changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Queens Defenders is very excited to share an expansion of our Community Outreach services to the Jamaica area.  These new services include weekly pop-up food pantry events, and expansion of our community-based immigration, housing, and legal support, and new initiatives launching in the coming weeks and months.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the unimaginable impact it had on our community, Queens Defenders began a Food Pantry to serve families impacted by domestic violence in Far Rockaway.

The Queens Defenders Youth Justice Court program serves as a bridge to mend relationships in communities and schools throughout Queens.

The Queens Defenders BLANK Project allows for local youth to learn about the law, how to organize, and bring awareness to current events and social issues.

Queens Defenders has been awarded a grant by The New York Bar Foundation for its Rockaway Community Justice Cente

Queens Defenders is pleased to announce that it has received a $16,000 grant for the Joseph LeRoy and Ann C. Warner Fund to expand our innovative Youth Justice Court program to the St. John’s Home for Boys in Rockaway Park, a Close to Home program for young men in foster care placements.

At the start of her junior year at Scholars Academy, Lastra walked into our Rockaway Outreach Center to see what it was all about.