Archives: Grants (page 9)

Canadian National Institute for the Blind Foundation (CNIB) will provide Youth Empowerment through Legal Learning (Y.E.L.L.) programming to blind, partially sighted, and Deafblind students at W. Ross Macdonald School in Brantford, Ontario. The objective of this project is to increase students’ knowledge of their rights, advocacy skills, and confidence to challenge discrimination and assert their rights in a way that promotes inclusion, dignity, and individualization.

Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples Legal Clinic (CSSP) will hire a paralegal who will develop and implement an outreach strategy for connecting with Spanish-speaking seniors in the GTA. This initiative will benefit Spanish-speaking seniors who are living in isolation with no access to other seniors or community supports. CSSP aims to increase these community members’ access to legal information and legal supports.

The Centre for Refugee Children will develop, in collaboration with legal experts and community partners, a comprehensive catalogue of resources for refugee children and youth in Ontario, and those who support them. The objective of the project is to provide critical legal information in accessible language to unaccompanied and separated minors on the most important issues and processes they must navigate within the immigration and other systems they encounter during their settlement in the province.

Downtown Legal Services (DLS) will expand its legal services to aid inmates in Toronto-area provincial penal institutions. This pilot program will assist inmates in identifying unmet legal needs and providing them with brief legal services and representation or, where DLS is not able to assist, connecting them with other legal supports.

Hispanic Development council (HDC) will provide intake, referral, and system navigation support to the Latin American Hispanic community in the Greater Toronto Area. This initiative will benefit community members with a range of legal needs, including family law, child protection, youth justice, wills & estates, and housing. HDC aims to increase the community’s access to reliable legal information and support that is linguistically and culturally appropriate.

John Howard Society of Ontario (JHSO) will expand their Civil Legal Needs Program. JHSO will conduct research to better understand the unique civil legal needs of BIPOC populations in Ontario to create responsive and relevant educational content.The objective of the project is to increase trusted intermediaries’ ability to act as a bridge between justice involved individuals and the legal system so that the civil legal issues faced by clients are not further exacerbated by their justice involvement.

JusticeTrans will develop and disseminate arts-based PLE resources, such as comics and ‘zines, for Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender nonconforming (2STNBGN) communities in Toronto and Ottawa. Partners include The 519 and Kind Space. This initiative will benefit 2STNBGN community members who are navigating discrimination, harassment, violence, and employment related legal issues. JusticeTrans aims to increase access to legal information and resources that are tailored to the unique experiences of 2STNBGN communities.

The Korean Legal Clinic will hold culturally and linguistically appropriate pro bono summary advice clinics in refugee and immigration law at partner Korean-Canadian organizations in the Greater Toronto Area. The Clinic will also develop two legal information toolkits in Korean. One toolkit will assist individuals to respond to anti-Asian racism and the second toolkit will include information on family, immigration, and housing laws. The project aims to assist recently arrived Koreans that have little to no English language proficiency and a limited understanding of the Canadian legal system.

Law Commission of Ontario's (LCO) Indigenous Environmental Accountability Project will consider how First Nation, Métis, and Inuit laws and legal orders inform environment accountability in Ontario, including the provincial Environmental Bill of Rights. This project is part of the LCO's broader Environmental Accountability Project.

The National Associations Active in Criminal Justice will create, disseminate, and make freely available 14 bilingual plain-language information sheets that outline the employment-related protections provided to people with criminal records in the various Canadian jurisdictions. The objective of the project is to help people with criminal records and service providers in the community to learn about these rights and be aware of protections and grounds for discrimination in Canadian jurisdictions as they relate to employment.