Annual Comprehensive 2017-18
The grant will support activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 153,000
December 12, 2016
Building Capacity within Administrative Tribunals to Improve Access to Justice for Racialized Communities in Ontario
OCASI, in partnership with the Colour of Poverty Campaign/Colour of Change Network, the Metro Toronto Chinese & South East Asian Legal Clinic, Rexdale Community Legal Clinic and the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario, will undertake research to identify barriers faced by racialized communities in accessing administrative tribunals and how these barriers affect the tribunal’s effectiveness and efficiency. They will also develop a tool and related policy on collecting disaggregated data that will help to eliminate or better understand the barriers faced by racialized communities in accessing tribunals.
$ 99,868
December 12, 2016
Annual Comprehensive 2017-18
The grant will support activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 306,000
December 12, 2016
Do First Nations, Metis and Inuit have Aboriginal and Treaty Rights to Health in Prison?
Dr. Yvonne Boyer will conduct legal research and analysis on the Constitution rights to health for Indigenous inmates in the federal and provincial systems.
$ 61,330
November 14, 2016
Closing the Gap: Building Service Providers' Legal Capacity to Improve Access to Justice for Immigrants and Refugees
MIAG, in partnership with legal professionals and clinics, will hold a series of workshops with front-line workers and community leaders on domestic and sexual violence, and parents' rights and responsibilities towards their children. The goal of the project is to equip participants with the knowledge to share legal information with, and improve access to justice for, new immigrants and refugees.
$ 74,598
November 14, 2016
Kaakewaaseya Justice Education Program
Grand Council Treaty #3 will hire an education coordinator who will develop and facilitate education seminars on the criminal justice system in 28 Anishinaabe communities located in Ontario and Manitoba. The education seminars will be delivered to youth and community members, and responds to Band leadership and in schools to educate community members (victims and offenders) about the criminal justice system. During community forums held to collect input for the 2013 Iacobucci Report on First Nations representation on juries, members and Elders from 24 of the 28 GCT3 communities identified the need for legal education in criminal law, particularly for youth and their families.
$ 200,000
November 14, 2016
Design Thinking and Technology: Responding to the Justice Needs of Aboriginal Youth (Youth Access to Justice and Technology Grant)
This project will use "design thinking" to explore how technology might be used to implement the recommendations found in the Feathers of Hope Justice & Juries: A First Nations Youth Action Plan for Justice report.
$ 54,083
November 14, 2016
Youth Access to Justice (Youth Access to Justice and Technology Grant)
Ryerson's Legal Innovation Zone, in collaboration with the Foundation, will convene a diverse group of youth, stakeholders, professionals, and community members, to participate in design-thinking processes to identify barriers to youth access to justice. The group will work together to develop solutions that engage technology strategically to improve access to youth justice.
$ 50,000
November 14, 2016
Supporting the human rights of migrant sex workers in Toronto: access to legal services and justice
The CCNC (Toronto) will develop and deliver training to enable front-line workers and other trusted intermediaries who come into contact with migrant sex workers to be more effective in supporting these individuals with their legal needs.
$ 49,930
November 14, 2016
Learning the Law: Legal information training for front line community workers in Peel & surrounding areas
The Peel Multicultural Council will provide training on human rights law and the Ontario Disability Support Program to over 240 settlement and community workers serving the needs of newcomers in the Peel Region and surrounding areas.
$ 44,546
November 14, 2016
