Connecting Communities: Building Capacity for Migrant Workers and Service Providers to Access Justice
The Migrant Workers Alliance for Change (Toronto, ON) will train front-line staff working with migrant workers and migrant worker leaders on new developments in labour and immigration law in the GTA and rural areas of Ontario. This project is an outgrowth of Connecting Communities.
$ 48,400
December 10, 2014
MLST-PBSC Advocacy Project 2014-2017
Mentorship, training and supervision are provided by MLST members for law students who assist unrepresented persons appearing before the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board on requests for review of decisions of regulated health professions colleges.
$ 15,000
December 10, 2014
LAWS Summer Job Program 2015
Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS) will place students in paid positions with legal aid clinics and public interest organizations that enable students to learn about public interest law and access to justice, observe the legal aid system, and interact directly with community members.
$ 15,000
December 10, 2014
Law in Action Within Schools Program
LAWS is an innovative 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 not only teach marginalized students about law and justice, but to support them to graduate from high school, access post-secondary education and consider a justice sector or legal profession career.
$ 100,000
December 10, 2014
Annual Comprehensive 2015-16
The comprehensive grant will support activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 153,000
December 10, 2014
Connecting Secretariat
Community Legal Education Ontario (Toronto, ON) will continue to house the Connecting Communities Secretariat to coordinate and support the activities of a group of legal and non-legal organizations working to improve access to justice for linguistic minorities and rural and remote communities.
$ 114,000
December 10, 2014
Les jeunes nouveaux arrivants en action pour la justice [Young newcomers taking action for justice]
The Centre Haïtien des Carrières et des Emplois will organize, develop and deliver a legal information training program in French to 100 youth from French-speaking, ethno cultural communities. The training will cover general information about the justice system and criminal law, including youth rights in interactions with police, breach of recognizance, the legal aid system and support for youth in detention centres.
$ 14,900
December 10, 2014
Annual Comprehensive 2015-16
The comprehensive grant will support activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 254,000
December 10, 2014
Bridging the gap: Connecting workers serving women living with and affected by HIV
CHALN will improve the support services available to women in Ontario by 1) convening front-line workers from HIV and violence against women sectors to learn about the intersections among their areas of work, and 2) creating information sheets for service providers and "Know Your Rights" materials for women living with HIV on gender based violence, HIV and available services.
$ 15,000
December 10, 2014
Program Activities 2015
The Canadian Civil Liberties Education Trust will conduct in-class seminars, workshops and lectures to students in elementary and high schools, and to pre-service teachers in faculties of education across Ontario via two programs: Teaching Civil Liberties and Civil Liberties in the Schools. The focus is on engaging students in critical thinking and respectful debate about rights and freedoms.
$ 221,100
December 10, 2014
