Archives: Grants (page 30)

The Canadian National Institute for the Blind will create and deliver workshops for guide dog handlers and produce a training video for Police Services in Ontario. This project will provide guide dog handlers with information about legal recourse options in the event of discrimination, particularly access denial. Police Services will benefit from increased knowledge about provincial legislation specific to guide dogs and enforcement procedures.

Capital Rainbow Refuge in partnership with Rainbow Haven, will create a toolkit and supplementary materials to support the sponsorship application process for LGBQTIA+ sponsorship groups in Ontario. These resources will benefit sponsor groups, law students, and those providing legal guidance in the preparation of LGBTQIA+ sponsorship applications. LGBTQIA+ refugees often are imminently at risk due to laws in their home country criminalizing consensual same-sex relations, their sexual orientation. or gender identity.

The Centre for Refugee Children will expand and adapt its Child Representative Legal Support Program to enhance specialized legal support for unaccompanied and separated children (UASC) navigating immigration proceedings in Ontario. In collaboration with FCJ Refugee Centre and legal partners, the project will provide UASC with enhanced access to child representatives at all stages of the immigration process and provide newly-established referrals to summary legal advice for UASC.The project will ensure that UASC in Ontario are informed, engaged, and supported throughout their legal immigration process.

The Ottawa Francophone Legal Clinic (Clinique juridique francophone d’Ottawa) will conduct a legal education project with Francophone elders, and the workers who support them, in Ottawa and across Ontario. Partners include the Fédération des aînés et des retraités francophones de l’Ontario (FARFO) and Retraite en action. The objective of the project is to prevent legal issues that Francophone elders may face and the harm they may experience as a result.

Osgoode Hall Law School’s Community Legal Aid Services Program (CLASP) will expand its identification documents (ID) clinic serving the Greater Toronto Area. In partnership with community hubs such as the Weston King Neighborhood Centre, CLASP will hire a Community Outreach Worker to supervise students, coordinate partnerships, and train outreach workers in ID services. The objective of the project is to assist low-income and marginalized individuals to secure ID so that they can access basic services such as healthcare, employment, and immigration.

Community Justice Collective will pilot the position of a triage lawyer to receive calls about the legal needs of unhoused people and make referrals to pro-bono lawyers and peer advocates. The objective of this project is to expand legal supports for a community of people who experience extensive criminalization, marginalization, harassment and abuse in the greater Toronto and Hamilton areas.

Community Living Ontario, in partnership with PooranLaw, will develop an online guide focused on the legal and educational rights of students with intellectual and developmental disabilities in Ontario’s public school system. The guide will provide an overview of the accommodations and supports available to students, review and appeal processes, and the roles of school boards, the Ontario Special Education Tribunals, and the Human Rights Tribunal. The objective of the project is to equip families with information to help them understand their rights and access the school system’s supports and accommodations.

COMPASS Refugee Centre will pilot a virtual Canada-US border clinic based in Ontario. Partners include the Canada-US Border Network and the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers. 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.

Disability Justice Network of Ontario will develop and publish a resource entitled, "EnAbling Justice: Access and Autonomy for Disabled People Facing Criminalization in Ontario" to meet the needs identified by racialized people with disabilities in Ontario who are incarcerated or otherwise in contact with the criminal justice system. The objective of this project is to support disabled people as they navigate the intersection of ableism, racism, and incarceration and give them increased knowledge, confidence, and autonomy when their dignity and freedom is at stake.

Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic will educate seniors, members of the public, and trusted intermediaries who support seniors about elder law. The objective of the project is to build the capacity of these groups to identify legal issues impacting seniors and access appropriate resources for assistance with these issues. This elder law capacity building will occur in the clinic’s catchment area of Grey and Bruce Counties and includes the Saugeen First Nation and the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation.