Connecting Communities: Our Health Our Laws
In this project, People to People will hold a series of workshops with community leaders and front-line workers on immigration, human rights and criminal law as they relate to people living with HIV/AIDS. The workshops will use the Ethiopian coffee ceremony – a traditional form of discussion and information sharing in the Ethiopian community. The goal of the project is to equip participants with the requisite knowledge to share legal information and make referrals to legal services for community members.
$ 43,422
October 29, 2015
Increasing OJEN Administrative Capacity through a CMS and CRM Upgrade
OJEN will renovate its content management system and relationship management solution to build better performance monitoring systems, develop its fundraising capabilities, and increase its administrative capacity.
$ 15,000
October 29, 2015
Roy & Ria McMurtry Endowment 2015
Lakehead University, Faculty of Law will provide a scholarship to a law student in financial need.
$ 5,000
October 29, 2015
Strengthening governance, phase 2
PBSC proposes to develop a new governance model.
$ 9,120
October 29, 2015
Expanding the Dialogue: Public Education and Capacity Building on Precarious Employment and Low-Waged Work
WAC will expand the dialogue through e-bulletins, training sessions, workshops and forums, in order to build capacity and deliver public legal education in at least six Ontario communities facing high rates of precarious low-waged work.
$ 87,424
September 21, 2015
Mapping the Front End: Legal Information Seeking Practices
Confronting an increasingly complex communications marketplace, Canadian consumers need meaningful and reliable information to understand their rights, make informed choices, and evaluate solutions for successful self-advocacy. Through direct consultation with consumers on their information seeking, access, and use habits, this project will establish best practices and an online toolkit for consumers to access and evaluate solutions for successful self-advocacy.
$ 65,008
September 21, 2015
The Action Group on Access to Justice (TAG)
TAG will bring together institutional, political and community stakeholders throughout Ontario and build the infrastructure for collaboration, cross-sector innovation and coordinated solutions to the access to justice problem.
$ 400,000
September 21, 2015
Acting OUT-Street Law Smarts
Building on the success of SKETCH’s previous project, Acting OUT-Street Law Smarts will recruit and train LGBTQ2S-identified youth to be Legal Educators/Advocates. They will develop and deliver theatre-based training workshops to provide relevant legal education with a particular focus around sexual orientation and gender identity issues for community professionals working with homeless and street-involved youth.
$ 100,000
September 21, 2015
Justice and Mental Health Program: Increasing the Capacity of SSO's Designated Representative Service
SSO will increase the capacity of its Designated Representative service by engaging a program coordinator. The program coordinator will provide support for individuals impacted by mental illness who are facing immigration/deportation proceedings, train peer-support workers, and conduct training workshops for professional groups who interface with this population.
$ 62,105
September 21, 2015
Support for Native Law Centre's Mandate
The Native Law Centre will carry out research and educational activities on issues in Aboriginal and constitutional law. The NLC also maintains an online database of legal pleadings in cases of interest to practitioners of Aboriginal law, and publishes resources on developments in Aboriginal law with a focus on Aboriginal concepts of justice.
$ 20,000
September 21, 2015
