Archives: Grants (page 84)

SKETCH will develop and deliver training workshops to provide relevant legal education and practice in advocacy and problem solving for community professionals working with homeless and street involved youth ages 16-24. The workshops will include youth facilitators who will provide experiential learning opportunities for participants through role playing.

The Collaborative Justice Program will provide support, safety, accountability, reparation, and reintegration to the accused, victims and their close contacts affected by serious cases of adult crime.

Luke's Place will develop an inventory of violence against women family law support work currently being done in Ontario.

The Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation will partner with the Metis Nation of Ontario to deliver a human rights education, research and capacity building initiative directed at Métis, First Nations and Inuit people in Northwestern Ontario, and the community organizations and housing providers that work with them.

The Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted will develop and deliver an Ontario-wide public legal education and awareness program on the causes of, remedies for, and methods of preventing wrongful convictions. The program will be delivered in First Nations communities and other centres with a high proportion of marginalized and vulnerable populations.

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.

To support the educational development and educational access programming of the 2014 paralegal licensing process.

To support the educational development and educational access programming of the 2014 lawyer licensing process.

Community Information Fairview will train students who are enrolled in law and law-related courses at local colleges and universities to assist with a free legal advice clinic two evenings per week.

Animal Justice Canada will produce an annotated version of the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, RSO 1990, c O.36 (OSPCA Act). Researchers will review the act, associated legislation, and any judicial treatment of the laws in order to provide an accessible yet comprehensive analysis of the OSPCA Act, its scope, and current application.