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The project will evaluate whether and how views of the child reports can assist children, their parents and ultimately the courts to understand the views and preferences of children. It will also assess the value of these reports for facilitating less expensive and more timely family dispute resolution.

FCJ Refugee Centre will develop and implement an integrated response and case management model for precarious migrant populations and disseminate the findings and best practices to the wider settlement and migrant-serving communities.

Fourteen community colleges in Ontario will purchase a consortial subscription to Quicklaw, Canada’s major legal information system. The subscription will allow the students and faculty of Ontario’s college paralegal programs full access to this standard electronic legal resource for both teaching and research purposes.

Community Legal Education Ontario will continue to develop the "yourlegalrights.ca," a comprehensive legal information site for Ontarians. The site’s goal is to serve as the central hub for all public legal education and information (PLEI) related activity in Ontario and establish best practices and tools for online PLEI work.

CLEO's Centre for Research and Innovation will conduct research, facilitate partnerships and develop projects to help build the capacity of CLEO and other community organizations to reach marginalized communities with the legal information and education they need to understand their legal rights.

METRAC will build the capacity of individuals, communities and organizations to effectively assist the most marginalized women and youth facing violence and in need of legal information. Program activities include providing legal education and information in clear language on a range of topics for service providers and producing and disseminating regionally targeted and multilingual legal information resources sensitive to the diverse experiences and realities of women.

Dare to Dream is an innovative program that bring together members from the legal community to educate, inspire and mentor Aboriginal students through justice-focused educational activities. Due to the continued success of the program in Toronto and Ottawa, CLA-ACE proposes to expand Dare to Dream to the Chippewas of Rama First Nation in 2015-16.

MCRS will develop a program for the Kitchener-Waterloo area to attract and support LGBTQ refugee claimants through the refugee determination process. 

 On the Record is a legal public education series on police record checks in Ontario created and delivered by JHSO in partnership with Canadian Civil Liberties Association. 

This award is in honour of Mark J. Sandler’s contribution as Chair of the Law Foundation of Ontario. The bursary, valued at $2,000 per year, is funded for five years (2016-2020). Its purpose is to fund travel related expenses for recent call lawyers to attend the Criminal Lawyers’ Association’s continuing professional development programming.