Archives: Grants (page 3)

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.

REST will address the needs of homeless and at-risk Black youth (ages 16 to 24) in Peel Region by providing culturally responsive legal education, training, and wraparound support to assist youth to navigate housing-related legal challenges, to prevent evictions, and to secure stable housing.

In partnership with Community Legal Education Ontario, the Centre will develop a Guided Pathway tool to assist individuals to complete and file a Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario application in English or French. With Osgoode Hall Law School, the Centre will pilot a project to expand its early resolution and mediation services program to support more unrepresented claimants at the earliest stages of their human rights disputes, with a particular focus on mediations. The Centre will also hire a paralegal to assist with intake, application-stage services, and representing clients at mediations.

The Agapè Centre (Agape) will create a weekly community legal information hub and host quarterly community legal education sessions on topics such as encampments and the family court process. The hub aims to address the unmet legal needs of Agapè users who struggle to meet their food security issues, while legal issues compound in their lives.