Attorney General Martha Coakley has opened a HomeCorps satellite office in Lowell to offer loan modification advocacy for struggling homeowners.

The new office, located at the John F. Kennedy Civic Center in Lowell, is staffed by a loan modification specialist trained to provide foreclosure prevention and borrower support through Coakley’s first-in-the-nation HomeCorps program.

The Lowell office is one of four planned satellite offices in Massachusetts, including one in Brockton, and two others anticipated to be opened in North Adams and Cape Cod.

"There are people in Massachusetts facing unnecessary foreclosures, and our HomeCorps initiative is designed to help them directly," Coakley said in a statement. "We hope these local offices will provide the individual support homeowners need when going through these difficult times."