Annual Comprehensive 2013-14
The comprehensive grant will support activities that respond to access to justice needs in the local community and/or provide student enrichment opportunities through experiential learning and other means.
$ 298,800
December 5, 2012
Taking it to the Streets
Dalhousie Legal Aid Service (Halifax, NS) will train community workers in rural Nova Scotia to assist on poverty law issues, including income assistance and residential tenancies. Community workers will include workers in organizations such as women’s shelters, youth shelters and Aboriginal healing centres.
$ 140,000
December 5, 2012
Paralegal Education and Educational Access to the 2013 Licensing Process
To support the educational development and educational access programming of the 2013 paralegal licensing process.
$ 50,750
December 5, 2012
Legal Education Development and Educational Access to the 2013 Lawyer Licensing Process
To support the educational development and educational access programming of the 2013 lawyer licensing process.
$ 520,800
December 5, 2012
Future Planning Workshop Series and Educational Project 2013
Planned Lifetime Networks will hold legal workshops that educate families on how to plan for the future of their relative with a disability using legal instruments such as wills, Henson Trusts and Registered Disability Savings Plans.
$ 8,880
December 5, 2012
Towards An Integrated Network 2nd Edition
The St. Leonard's Society of Canada will create a revised Second Edition of "Towards An Integrated Network: Working Together to Avoid Criminalization of People with Mental Health Problems" in both electronic and hardcopy form.
$ 12,920
December 5, 2012
Legal Issues Program
The Niagara Region Sexual Assault Centre will further develop and expand the 2007 pilot Legal Issues program for grade 11 & 12 law students which provides workshops in high schools across the Niagara Region on the legal issues related to sexual assault.
$ 14,560
December 5, 2012
Grants for Legal Research and Writing
The Foundation for Legal Research will make grants for legal research and writing to approximately 25 academic researchers. Upon finishing their writing/research, the grant recipients will submit copies of their work to the FLR for its library.
$ 10,000
December 5, 2012
Windigo Community Law Renewal Pilot Project
The Windigo First Nations Council will develop an innovative means of enforcing community bylaws to reduce the use of intoxicants. A regional support network will coordinate the implementation within a framework that encourages the treatment of afflictions and a restorative justice approach to underlying harms.
$ 15,000
December 5, 2012
"Key HIV and human rights issues: Educating the public, equipping lawyers"
The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network will develop and disseminate public legal education resources as well as deliver workshops and similar educational events for community members and agencies, as well as for legal professionals, addressing the key HIV-related legal issues of privacy and discrimination, and criminal law and HIV non-disclosure.
$ 57,390
December 5, 2012
