These "national support centers" focus on specific subject areas where regionally-focused legal aid programs may need extra information, advocacy and support.  Their websites are often a good source of online resources and up to the minute news about legal efforts to help specific groups of clients or initiatives in certain practice areas.

• National Health Law Program -  serves legal services programs, community-based organizations, the private bar, providers and individuals who work to preserve a health care safety net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured low-income people.
  
  
• Center for Law and Education -  protects and advances the legal interests of the poor through research and action on the legal implications of educational policies, particularly those affecting equality of educational opportunity.
  
  
• National Consumer Law Center - helps consumers, their advocates, and public policy makers use powerful and complex consumer laws on behalf of low-income and vulnerable Americans seeking economic justice.
  
  
• Child Care Law Center - uses legal tools toward making high quality, affordable child care available to every child, family and community, while focusing particular attention to low-income families, families and children with disabilities and other special needs, and other families who face barriers in securing and maintaining quality care.
  
  
• National Center for Youth Law - works to ensure that low-income children have the resources, support, and opportunities they need for a healthy and productive future.
  
  
• Insight Center for Community Economic Development (formerly National Economic Development and Law Center) - a national research, consulting, and legal organization dedicated to building economic health in vulnerable communities.
  
  
• Farmer's Legal Action Group - provides legal services to family farmers and their rural communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land.
  
  
• National Housing Law Project - providing legal assistance, advocacy advice and housing expertise to legal services and other attorneys, low-income housing advocacy groups, and others who serve the poor. 
  
  
• National Immigration Law Center - specializes in immigration law and the employment and public benefits rights of immigrants.  Conducts policy analysis and impact litigation and provides publications, technical advice, and trainings to legal aid agencies, community groups, and pro bono attorneys.
  
  
• Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law - uses litigation, policy analysis, coalition-building, public information and technical support for local advocates to protect and advance the rights of adults and children who have mental disabilities.
  
  
• National Senior Citizens Law Center - advocates before the courts, Congress and federal agencies to promote the independence and well-being of low-income elderly and disabled Americans.
  
  
• National Veterans Legal Services Program - Provided veterans organizations, service officers and attorneys with training and educational publications to enable them to help veterans and their dependents obtain all of the benefits that they deserve.
  
  
• Center for Law and Social Policy - conducts research, provides policy analysis, advocates at the federal and state levels, and offers information and technical assistance on a range of family policy and equal justice issues for federal, state, and local policymakers; advocates; researchers; and the media.  
  
  
• National Center for Law and Economic Justice  (formerly Welfare Law Center) - conducts impact litigation, policy analysis and advocacy, and provides support for low-income grass-roots groups to uphold the right to fair treatment; protect the civil rights of low-income people; and support community empowerment.
  
  
• National Employment Law Project - promotes policies and programs that create good jobs, strengthen upward mobility, enforce hard-won worker rights, and help unemployed workers regain their economic footing through improved benefits and services.  
  
  
• Center for Conflict Resolution - provides free mediation services in over 2,000 cases, trains hundreds of new mediators, facilitates meetings and works with dozens of businesses, government agencies and organizations to create custom-designed dispute resolution systems and training programs.
  
  
• Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law - takes action to end poverty through policy development, communications, and impact litigation.