Archives: Grants (page 43)

The 519 aims to build on its capacity to support individuals through the justice system and provide the legal expertise necessary to increase access to justice. Partners include Pro Bono Students Canada and Community Legal Education Ontario. This grant will benefit members of the LGBTQ2S community, particularly those who are racialized, trans, low-income, under-housed or otherwise marginalized who have difficulty accessing high quality legal services

The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History will study and promote public interest in the history of the law, the legal profession, and the judiciary in Ontario and elsewhere in Canada. It does so by publishing books on Canadian legal history, and creating and preserving an oral history archive.

Partners for Planning will develop and disseminate accessible, plain-language resources, including a printed book, facilitator guide, and planning e-course. The resources are on important legal topics for families that support a relative with a disability and wish to create a good life for them and ensure their future is safe and secure, both financially and socially. The project enhances the participants' knowledge so they can use all the available tools and legal instruments to provide the maximum security possible for their loved ones.

Native Law Centre (NLC) will implement a range of legal education initiatives, including its national legal research and publications program and the Native Law Centre Summer Program. This grant will benefit Indigenous law students and lawyers as well as the broader legal community. Through its initiatives, NLC aims to contribute to public legal education on Indigenous peoples and Indigenous law and promote access to legal education for Indigenous students.

Black Law Students’ Association of Canada (BLSA Canada) will host its annual conference in Ottawa benefiting Black law students from across the country. BLSA Canada aims to foster connections between Black law students and lawyers to promote professional development, legal education, and cultural awareness within the legal sector.

The Brain Injury Society of Toronto Legal Educational Awareness Project will develop, organize, and deliver in-person and web-based referral and education sessions for people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) involved in the legal system. An innovative concept that will use technology to enhance supportive legal services and programming for people with ABI in both the City of Toronto and across Ontario. A better understanding of the condition by members of the legal sector will help to provide people with ABI access to justice by avoiding assumptions and misinterpretations of their behaviour.

Canadian Legal Information Institute will improve access to legal information pertaining to family law for Ontarians by scanning and loading the decisions from the Reports of Family Law onto their website. This project will ensure that the core primary law and most important court decisions for this practice area from the last 48 years will become readily available to Ontarians without subscription to or purchase of research materials.

The Community Law School will develop a Mental Health Laws and Advocacy course for inclusion in the Certificate in Community Advocacy Program that will encompass five crucial legal issues/processes and four governing statutes impacting people dealing with mental health issues. This grant will benefit trusted intermediaries, as well as friends, family, and other people supporting those dealing with mental health issues. The objective of the project is to empower people supporting individuals with mental health issues to understand and better navigate legal processes.

Council of Agencies Serving South Asians will provide legal education in the City of Toronto and London, Ontario to benefit refugee women. The objective of the project is to disseminate up-to-date, customized legal information related to childcare, housing, employment, education, healthcare including maternal and sexual health by bringing lawyers and refugee women together in education forums and by developing and disseminating legal toolkits in many languages spoken by refugees.

The Jail Accountability & Information Line aims to develop its capacity to offer prisoners and their families legal information and connections to legal services in an effort to improve conditions of confinement at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. Partnerships will be developed among the Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Community Legal Education Ontario, and Legal Aid Ontario. With the assistance of two part-time coordinators, up to eight undergraduate social sciences students will be partnered with up to eight law students to participate in call intake and resolution work.