Archives: Grants (page 73)

TAG will bring together institutional, political and community stakeholders throughout Ontario and build the infrastructure for collaboration, cross-sector innovation and coordinated solutions to the access to justice problem.  

Building on the success of SKETCH’s previous project, Acting OUT-Street Law Smarts will recruit and train LGBTQ2S-identified youth to be Legal Educators/Advocates. They will develop and deliver theatre-based training workshops to provide relevant legal education with a particular focus around sexual orientation and gender identity issues for community professionals working with homeless and street-involved youth. 

SSO will increase the capacity of its Designated Representative service by engaging a program coordinator. The program coordinator will provide support for individuals impacted by mental illness who are facing immigration/deportation proceedings, train peer-support workers, and conduct training workshops for professional groups who interface with this population. 

The Native Law Centre will carry out research and educational activities on issues in Aboriginal and constitutional law. The NLC also maintains an online database of legal pleadings in cases of interest to practitioners of Aboriginal law, and publishes resources on developments in Aboriginal law with a focus on Aboriginal concepts of justice.  

LAWS is a partnership between the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School and the Toronto District School Board that delivers a law and justice-themed academic and extra-curricular high school program designed to teach marginalized students about law and justice, support them to graduate from high school, access post-secondary education and consider a justice sector or legal profession career. 

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.