Program activities 2017-18
Pro Bono Students Canada will continue to provide practical learning experiences for law students and free legal information and services to Canadian organizations and individuals in need.
$ 541,396
February 16, 2017
Indigenous legal/justice traditions research project
The OFIFC will undertake a community-driven research project to recognize local Indigenous legal/justice knowledge and enhance the delivery of the OFIFC’s Aboriginal Community Justice Programs. The goal of the project is for Friendship Centres to engage with local Indigenous knowledge keepers regarding traditional legal and community justice approaches. The project will explore how Indigenous communities dealt with conflicts and harmful behaviours traditionally and how those approaches, principles, and teachings can reframe or enhance the delivery of the Aboriginal Community Justice Program.
$ 100,000
February 16, 2017
The Urban Lawyers / Les Juristes Urbains
Clinique Juridique Juripop will bring legal professionals together in a vacant space for a festive family event to create a unifying space for making the law accessible to the public.
$ 40,000
February 16, 2017
Provincial Indigenous human rights training initiative [Year 2]
This project is an expansion of the original project. The OFIFC will deliver six half-day legal education workshops on human rights legislation aimed at 200 community leaders within Indigenous Friendship Centre communities. Attendees will include Friendship Centre staff, board members, and volunteers. The workshops will provide training on how to distinguish potential human rights violations and how to access the provincial human rights system.
$ 37,398
February 16, 2017
Connecting Region - Connecting Ottawa
Connecting Ottawa will continue to coordinate a consortium of over 40 legal and non-legal organizations to implement a regional plan to provide legal information and referrals to people who are not proficient in English or French or who face communication challenges as the result of a disability or sensory impairment.
$ 256,560
February 16, 2017
Connecting Communities Secretariat
Community Legal Education Ontario will continue to house the Connecting Communities Secretariat to coordinate and support legal and non-legal organizations working to improve access to justice for linguistic minorities and rural and remote communities by training frontline workers and trusted intermediaries.
$ 114,000
February 16, 2017
Connecting Communities: Building capacity of community leaders to respond to family violence in the context of early identification
The Centre will create a program to educate frontline social service workers, including settlement workers within the Muslim community, as well as Muslim religious leaders and possibly other faith leaders. The focus will be on child welfare law, immigration law, and intimate partner violence.
$ 50,000
February 16, 2017
Refugee Sponsorship Support Program (SSP): Three-year service plan
The SSP will provide legal support for private sponsorship groups across Canada through four core activities: a training program for lawyers and law students who volunteer to help sponsors complete private refugee sponsorship applications; direct support through a variety of service delivery models, including legal clinics and matching programs with SSP-trained pro-bono lawyer; a public outreach program to promote SSP services and provide basic public legal information to support sponsor groups; and a campus program to train and engage law students in direct support of refugee sponsorship and sponsorship-related research.
$ 154,440
January 17, 2017
Children's lawyer initiative
The Children's Lawyer Initiative is a three-year project to establish a children's lawyer in BC. The initiative will serve the legal needs of children in contested family law cases, child protection matters, and other legal matters faced by children.
$ 300,000
January 17, 2017
Formative and summative evaluation of a program for crossover youth in Ontario
Ryerson will conduct a formative and summative evaluation of the Cross-Over Youth Project (COYP), a four-year demonstration program designed to address the systemic factors that contribute both to the high rate of youth in Ontario who transition from the child welfare to the juvenile justice system and to the poor outcomes they experience, compared to their non-child welfare counterparts.
$ 92,264
January 17, 2017
