Archives: Grants (page 48)

The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic (BSCC) in collaboration with the Centre for Research and Education on Violence against Women and Children (CREVWC), will conduct research on and develop a partner violence risk assessment tool to help women survivors of abuse navigate the family court system. The BSCC and CREVWC will also create a training toolkit for the different stakeholders in the family courts. This grant will benefit women survivors of abuse, family law practitioners and family court staff and concludes in 2020. This grant furthers access to justice by providing legal actors with the tools to recognize gender-based violence from the moment a survivor reaches out to the family justice system.

The National Action Committee (NAC) is a national body created in 2008 to work across the justice sector on access to justice issues facing Canadians in civil and family matters. It will undertake various activities including a governance review, a strategic planning exercise, a progress report on its justice development goals, connect people across common issues through engagement activities, and develop indicators for its justice metrics. It will also hold a national meeting to bring to bring people together, share resources, and spur action. NAC is a national catalyst for reform, fostering engagement, pursuing a strategic collaborative approach to reforms, and coordinating the efforts of all participants concerned with civil and family justice.

The Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton (SPRCH) will work in collaboration with the Immigrant Working Centre (IWC) in the Hamilton region, to implement the Family Learning Project (FLP), a legal education initiative that intends to provide new Canadian families with knowledge and capacity around child welfare legislation and policies. The project will also provide adult education sessions about child welfare law to service providers who work with new Canadians and peer mentors in the community. This grant will benefit new Canadians, service providers and peer mentors and concludes in 2020. This grant furthers access to justice because there is a disproportionate involvement of newcomers within the child welfare system as a result of factors such as unfamiliarity with the Canadian legal system, language, and cultural barriers.

Research on best practices on, and implications for the use of restorative justice - FGCs among African, Black, Caribbean, Black (ABC) families engaging the child welfare system, and the design of culturally appropriate supplementary FGC curriculum content and other knowledge products on the use of ACB focused FGCs for existing and potential FGC practitioners. Working with METRAC and Black Creek Community Health Centre, the project will explore development and implementation of pilot model.

The University of Calgary, Faculty of Law (U of C) will develop a web-based research portal for litigants and their support providers in domestic violence cases that will provide accessible, plain language summaries of the laws and government policies in each jurisdiction in Canada, with related links. The portal will be developed in collaboration with domestic violence and public legal education organizations across Canada. This grant will benefit abused women and the trusted intermediaries who provide them with legal and other support and services, this grant concludes in 2018. This grant furthers access to justice by providing a comprehensive breadth of family law and plain language legal information that would assist women who are victims of violence.

Carleton University, Department of Law and Legal Studies (Carleton) is undertaking research to understand sources of conflict in child custody cases and the role of scheduling apps in particular. This grant will benefit the family law bar as a whole and concludes in 2019. This grant furthers access to justice by providing a better understanding of which issues in custody matters are the most contentious amongst separating families