Making Room, Creating Place: Arts-based Human Rights Legal Education for Sex Workers
CERA will deliver a series of arts-based housing and human rights legal education workshops for street-based sex workers in Toronto.
$ 15,000
June 29, 2016
Access to Supervised Consumption Sites: A Community Consultation to Remove Barriers to an Essential Health Service for People Who Use Drugs
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network will gather front line service providers and policymakers to provide information about and methods for meeting the application requirements to legally operate supervised consumption sites
$ 15,000
June 29, 2016
Justice Theatre: Restorative Justice
People’s Law School will organize and deliver 40 performances of its Justice Theatre program to schools and communities with significant Indigenous populations in British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Saskatchewan. The performances will focus on the role that restorative justice plays in Canada’s criminal justice system. The grant will also be used to develop teacher and student resources including a handbook of materials for teachers
$ 125,000
May 26, 2016
2016-05-26 A Social Enterprise Innovation Venture: Campus Cultures of Consent E-Courses
Seed funding for a social enterprise that will offer, for a fee, a series of online courses pertaining to sexual assault and consent to students and employees at Canadian colleges and universities.
$ 40,000
May 26, 2016
Indigenous Peer Support Worker
The Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa will hire and train an Indigenous peer support worker who will provide peer support to Indigenous women who are incarcerated or at risk of incarceration and who are reintegrating into the community after incarceration. The peer support worker will act as peer advocate and resource and will provide court support to women navigating the criminal justice system.
$ 110,000
April 25, 2016
Child Protection Parent Education Project Phase 3 - Translation and Printing of Court Based Parent Information Booklet for First Nations Communities
The Child Protection Parent Education Program Committee will translate a child protection booklet into the Mi’kmaq language. The booklet accompanies the legal information DVD on child protection proceedings created with a previous Law Foundation of Ontario grant.
$ 3,500
April 25, 2016
Sleep a Night Under my Roof
This interactive learning day will provide front line workers with practical and legal information as well as support tools and resource material to better serve low income community members navigating the challenges of finding and maintaining safe, healthy and affordable housing in Lanark County.
$ 16,135
April 25, 2016
Legal Education for Staff of Agencies Supporting Individuals with Disabilities in Rural Ontario
Training materials will be developed and delivered to key professionals within the developmental and other disability sectors and to individuals with disabilities and their intermediaries that will increase knowledge regarding the Ontario Disability Support Program and the Residential Tenancy Act.
$ 38,405
April 25, 2016
Roy & Ria McMurtry Endowment 2015-16
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
April 25, 2016
Video to Assist Families of Murdered and Missing Indigenous People and Working Effectively with Indigenous Clients
In this grant, Aboriginal Legal Services will undertake two projects: a video to help families of murdered and missing Indigenous people navigate the justice system and access legal supports, and a video and handbook for lawyers to assist them in working more effectively with Indigenous clients.
$ 72,204
April 25, 2016
