Center for Civil Justice- Health Eligibility Law Project

CCJ’s Healthcare Eligibility Law Project (HELP) provides low-income people access to governmental health insurance programs and monitors and corrects errors in eligibility calculations, policies, and practices.

Center for Civil Justice seeks to help people meet basic needs, secure dignity, and seize opportunity in the face of poverty, prejudice and other barriers. CCJ does this by improving public policy and increasing access to governmental programs and services through the strategic use of systemic litigation strategies.

By providing legal and technical assistance to low-income people and their allies, CCJ ensures that Michigan’s low-income population has greater access to basic needs and services, particularly related to healthcare, housing, food and nutrition, and monetary support in order to improve economic stability and self-sufficiency. CCJ collaborates with low-income people and advocates to identify and address significant emerging issues through systemic advocacy strategies.

CCJ is a non-profit organization that uses its expertise on laws and policies affecting low-income people in order to act as a voice for those individuals and enable them to receive assistance through social safety net programs. CCJ engages in impact litigation, as well as policy and administrative advocacy, to achieve system improvements in the policies affecting Michigan’s low-income population. We also provide legal and technical assistance to advocates and organizations statewide on a variety of policy issues, especially those related to housing, healthcare, food and nutrition and economic self-sufficiency.

We address statewide legal and policy issues.