Connecting Communities: Increasing Access to Legal Information for People with Speech and Language Disabilities (SLDs)
This project will provide training to disability advocates, including social workers, speech-language pathologists, peer support workers, and family members in three areas of law - consent and capacity, housing and attendant services, and access to essential services - that impact people who have speech and language disabilities (SLDs), not caused by hearing loss. The aim of the training is to increase the ability of front-line workers to support their clients who have SLDs who are facing legal problems.
$ 50,000
June 22, 2015
Connecting Communities: Provincial Aboriginal Human Rights Initiative
The Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC) will provide training workshops on human rights legislation, anti-discrimination protections, and the human rights enforcement process to community leaders within Indigenous Friendship Centre communities in Ontario. The project aims to promote education and awareness, advance access to justice and begin facilitating a dialogue about discrimination and human rights issues in Aboriginal communities across the province.
$ 24,850
June 22, 2015
Young Lawyers Conference, October 2015
The CLA will hold an intensive advocacy program for junior members of the defence bar in Ontario, including subsidizing the travel and accommodation for those from remote areas.
$ 50,000
May 12, 2015
Providing Virtual Family Law Services to Survivors of Violence against Women
Luke’s Place, in partnership with Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic, proposes to establish a virtual pro bono family law clinic model for women who have left an abusive relationship and are not able to access legal representation in a remote, underserved region of the province.
$ 95,000
May 12, 2015
Program Activities 2015-16
The Law Commission of Ontario will continue to follow its mandate to: recommend law reform measures to enhance the legal system’s relevance, effectiveness and accessibility; improve the administration of justice through the clarification and simplification of the law; consider the use of technology to enhance access to justice; and stimulate critical legal debate about the law.
$ 550,000
April 9, 2015
Connecting Communities: No Longer the Norm: A Legal Information Training Project on Sexting and Cyberbullying
This project will train frontline staff working with young people and youth leaders on the law as it relates to sexting and cyberbullying, and the serious impact of these behaviours on victims. A video will be produced jointly with the Niagara Regional Police Services, which will provide a key training resource for the project. Workshops will be held throughout the Niagara Region and a webinar will be created and offered to the coordinators of the forty Youth Justice Committees throughout Ontario.
$ 48,750
April 9, 2015
Program Activities 2015-16
Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC) provides legal services without charge to organizations and individuals in need in Canada. Housed at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, it is the only national law student program in Canada with chapters in 21 law schools. Its law student volunteers serve communities from coast to coast, working to increase access to justice by offering high quality, professional legal assistance and meaningful leadership opportunities for students who run the local chapters. The LFO’s funding covers all program costs at the Ontario law school chapters, and contributes to national office costs, including the annual national training conference for Student Coordinators.
$ 541,396
March 18, 2015
Roy & Ria McMurtry Endowment 2014-15
The Second Chance Scholarship Foundation will provide a post-secondary education scholarship to a youth enrolled in a program relating to legal education, and who is currently, or has been, involved in the criminal justice system or who is at risk of such.
$ 5,000
March 18, 2015
Program Activities 2015-2016
The Ontario Justice Education Network will carry out programs that facilitate and support broad-based activity by the judiciary, the bar, the courts, and the education community throughout Ontario, with a primary focus on students and the strengthening of links between the justice and education communities. It will enhance existing high school mock trial competitions and deliver Law Day activities that are designed to develop awareness of the legal profession, the judicial system, and the rule of law in Canada.
$ 850,000
February 10, 2015
Connecting Communities: Human Trafficking-Increasing our Community’s Capacity to Respond through Legal Education
The Coalition Assisting Trafficked Individuals (CATI) proposes to develop and implement an innovative legal training project that will offer training to front line community agency staff as well as non-traditional service providers. The information will be offered to a wide range of intermediaries, both those traditionally considered service providers (i.e. shelter workers, health workers) as well as non-traditional intermediaries (i.e. individuals who work in hair and nail salons, hotels and restaurants). The project will increase participants’ awareness of the social and legal issues facing people who are being trafficked and will, most importantly, provide information and resources to them.
$ 43,140
February 10, 2015
