Archives: Grants (page 78)

Connecting Ottawa (Ottawa, ON) will continue to coordinate a consortium of over 40 legal and non-legal organizations to implement a regional plan to provide legal information and referrals to linguistic minorities.

Luke's Place will research online conferencing services to be used to provide virtual family law services to survivors of violence against women.

Kinbrace will adapt to Ontario, translate into three languages and disseminate its educational tool designed to help refugee claimants further understand the refugee determination system and increase their capacity to prepare for their refugee hearings.

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.

The Caring Society will create a customizable online educational resource on the sources of systemic disadvantage for First Nations children on reserve, available redress systems and resources, and pragmatic examples of how individuals, group and organizations can address them.

The FCJ Refugee Centre will implement two new programs for refugee claimants - the READY Tour, and the RAD Ready Tour - as well as continue to provide direct support to uprooted populations and training to refugee serving agency staff in the refugee determination process.

This is a pilot project in the Ottawa Family Court for high conflict custody and access cases. The goal is to provide high conflict families with enhanced access to judicial and community resources and support as they enter the court system to help them resolve parenting disputes promptly and efficiently, while shielding the children as much as possible from the negative consequences of their parents' conflict.

Community Legal Education Ontario will continue to develop the "yourlegalrights.ca" site that contains the three building block components (i. legal information, ii. information and referral, and iii. education and training) of 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 related activity in Ontario, and establish best practices and tools for online PLEI work.

CLEO's Centre for Research will conduct research, facilitate partnerships and develop projects to help build capacity of CLEO and other community organizations to reach marginalized communities with the legal information and education they need to understand their legal rights.

Bearskin Lake First Nation will continue its development of a comprehensive, Anishinaabe-centred means of enforcing community by-laws that suppress the manufacture, importation, and use of intoxicants.