Archives: Grants (page 75)

ILRU will assist local lawmaking, law-acting, and law-thinking, through the articulation of Anishinaabe legal principles and processes that inform essential constitutional and governance concepts such as citizenship, rights and freedoms, consent, authority, and civility. The project will benefit partner Indigenous communities in revitalizing their Indigenous legal traditions.

The NLC will hire a research officer who will train Saskatchewan justice workers on Gladue factors, including writing and understanding Gladue reports. The project will facilitate a knowledge-sharing program for justice stakeholders in Saskatchewan, including judges, defence lawyers, Crown attorneys, and court workers. It will take place over twelve months, during which time approximately 27 seminars will be held at 16 locations throughout the province.

PEIPCS will train family dispute resolution professionals on how to screen for family violence and power imbalances in parenting coordination matters that come before them. The two-day workshop will be aimed at legal and mental health professionals in both the public and private spheres and will improve outcomes for families involved in the court system.

REACH will host legal clinics and PLE sessions in housing, employment, health, and social benefits law for disabled youth and young adults who are in and transitioning from child protection services. In addition, REACH will liaise with youth protection and support organizations to raise awareness about its services and facilitate contact and communication with this vulnerable population.

RACE will hire a legal director who will develop RACE’s organizational capacity to deliver legal education seminars. Activities include developing a legal database of caselaw that focuses on race issues, developing a FOI resource bank for lawyers, and developing continuing legal education workshops for legal professionals. This project will benefit vulnerable racialized accused persons and criminal lawyers in Toronto by exploring the barriers to justice faced by racialized accused.

SCAE will develop and deliver workshops detailing key aspects of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The focus of the project will be on encouraging youth to educate themselves about the justice system and providing useful tools on how racialized youth should conduct themselves when interacting with the law.

UOI will create a booklet that will build awareness around rights and obligations of Indigenous families involved in child protection proceedings. This booklet will be disseminated to UOI community members and will help those navigating CFSA proceedings.

UOI will bring together Anishinabek Nation communities to share knowledge, identify traditional Anishinabek legal practices and systems, and explore how these practices and systems can be implemented in modern Indigenous communities. The project will revitalize Indigenous legal traditions and will inform future Anishinabek Nation justice initiatives in governance, education, child welfare, policing, and matrimonial real property.

The NSRLP will create a caselaw database to support self-represented litigants (SRLs). The database will compile, code, and analyze emerging jurisprudence relating to SRLs and cost awards, procedural fairness, 'vexatious litigants', and requests for accommodations. This project will help SRLs advocate for themselves in family law proceedings by providing them with accessible, organized legal precedents that can assist them.