Supporting young victims of human sex trafficking through the justice system
Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre will design, implement and evaluate a pilot project to increase access to justice for young victims of human sex trafficking in Toronto. This pilot project will be developed in coordination with the Human Trafficking Enforcement Team of Toronto Police Services and other organizations. The model will be made available to other child advocacy centres across Canada that are working with this population.
$ 86,476
January 17, 2017
Strengthening governance, phase 3
PBSC will finalize its new governance model
$ 8,842
January 17, 2017
Legal and policy tools for source water protection: A tri-First Nation (Chippewa/ Munsee/ Oneida) & CELA initiative
The Chippewas of the Thames First Nation and the Canadian Environmental Law Association will develop legal and policy mechanisms to protect and improve the drinking water for three First Nations in southwestern Ontario.
$ 108,198
January 17, 2017
Consumer Law Clinic project
The Legal Help Centre will provide legal information workshops, drop-in information and triage, appointment-based one-on-one coaching, and document preparation services for self-represented litigants, as well as representation in Small Claims Court for consumer law matters. The clinic will be staffed by law and articling students and will provide services to individuals who are unable to effectively advocate for themselves due to barriers that include literacy and language, socioeconomic circumstances, culture and disability.
$ 95,480
January 17, 2017
The Action Group on Access to Justice
The Action Group on Access to Justice (TAG) will bring together institutional, political and community justice system stakeholders throughout Ontario and build the infrastructure for collaboration, cross-sector innovation and coordinated solutions to the access to justice problem.
$ 160,000
December 12, 2016
Program Activities 2017
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.
$ 195,700
December 12, 2016
Program Activities 2017
Pro Bono Ontario will continue to create and manage programs that connect volunteer lawyers with low-income Ontarians, either directly or in partnership with charitable organizations working in local communities.
$ 800,000
December 12, 2016
Program Activities (January to June 2017)
Innocence Canada will continue to coordinate and administer its pro bono program, which reviews and assesses claims of innocence and provides legal assistance for cases of wrongful murder convictions.
$ 115,000
December 12, 2016
Program Activities 2017
The Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust will conduct in-class seminars, workshops, and lectures to students in elementary and high schools and to pre-service teachers in faculties of education across Ontario via two programs: Teaching Civil Liberties and Civil Liberties in the Schools. The focus is on engaging students in critical thinking and respectful debate about rights and freedoms.
$ 221,100
December 12, 2016
Domestic Violence: New Policing and Community Prevention Approaches
The DWS will analyse over 3,000 OPP Domestic Violence Supplemental Report Forms (DVSRs) from both criminal and non-criminal incidents to gather quantitative data in order to assist with the development of an alternative model for responding to domestic violence.
$ 15,000
December 12, 2016
