Archives: Grants (page 17)

Animal Environmental Legal Advocacy will offer free summary legal advice to low and modest-income individuals and organizations facing animal and environmental legal challenges in Ontario. Working closely with law students to provide this service, it aims to address over 100 inquiries each year.

This partnership will allow Laidlaw Foundation to expand support for Black and Indigneous youth-led access to justice initiatives through their Youth Action Fund. Funding will be used to support 10 grassroots projects addressing systemic barriers in education, justice, and child welfare.

The Kingston Native Centre and Language Nest (KNCLN), in partnership with Queen’s Law and Queen’s Law clinics, will establish the Katarokwi Indigenous Law Clinic (KILC) in Kingston by studying best practices in Indigenous legal services, support, education, and advocacy. The clinic will host an articling student to provide frontline legal services and connect clients with existing services at Queen’s Law. This project will develop a business plan and long-term funding strategy and support the development of a legal clinic tailored to the particular needs of the Kingston Indigenous community.

The National Right to Housing Network will support civil society organizations and rights holders in Ontario to participate in review panel hearings under the federal National Housing Strategy Act. This project will develop public legal education materials on national and international housing rights laws, and provide support to participate in review panels. This project aims to enable meaningful engagement in access to justice mechanisms to advance the right to housing.

Hamilton Community Legal Clinic will build the capacity of stakeholders throughout Ontario to provide legal and rights-based support to underserved and marginalized Ontarians and increase health equity and access to justice through a health justice partnership framework. Activities will include interactive training and outreach sessions, and a multidisciplinary conference. They will work in partnership with representatives of the Ontario Health Justice Partnerships Community of Practice, a provincewide network of legal and health practitioners and academics.

COMPASS Refugee Centre will expand its virtual Canada-US border clinic based in Ontario. This initiative will benefit border crossers seeking protection in Canada, potential anchor relatives in Canada, NGOs in Ontario and the United States, and Canadian immigration lawyers. The objective of the project is to provide quality legal information and advice for border crossers and those who serve them.

Social Planning Council Oxford will maintain and expand the work of its Oxford Tenant Support Network that advises tenants about their rights to housing primarily through a telephone helpline. The Council will engage in outreach with community agencies to set up two-way referrals, run the hotline with trained peer workers, and provide legal information workshops on housing law topics.

Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) will provide culturally appropriate legal services for Canadian Muslim women seeking advice on family law issues and assist clients to navigate between Muslim family laws and the Canadian legal system. CCMW will also update its existing legal publications and develop and conduct a series of workshops on topics including family law, employment rights, and immigration law aimed at Muslim women and community leaders and volunteers, the latter who will be trained to deliver workshops at chapters throughout Ontario.