In addition, we need volunteer attorneys who are willing to speak to groups and
provide community legal education, assist with pro se workshops and numerous other projects.
Investing in early intervention and prevention activities, such
as community legal education, is more cost effective and prevents offending occurring in the first place.
LawConnect Ontario (a collaboration of
Community Legal Education Ontario or CLEO and the Ontario Justice Education Network or OJEN) and The Action Group on Access to Justice (TAG) invite workshops proposals for Connect, Create, Communicate, a conference on public legal education and information (PLEI) and access to justice (A2J).
A collective of non-profits
including Community Legal Education Ontario, Pro Bono Students Canada and the Ontario Justice Education Network and supported by the Law Society of Upper Canada, Flip Your Wig is a pledge - based fundraiser in support of access to justice programs in Ontario.
We celebrated the launch of this new collaboration
between Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) and the Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN) on January 20, 2016 at Osgoode Hall in Toronto.
In addition to Legal Advice Clinics, CLSMF hosts a variety of
free community legal education sessions where a specific legal topic is presented by a pro bono attorney followed by a generic question and answer session.
Websites Legal Aid Ontario Toronto Community Legal
Clinics Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)-- publish legal information pamphlets on various areas of law CLEOnet — a website for sharing legal education materials; can be searched by topic Lawyer Referral Service Community and Legal Aid Services Programme (CLASP) Downtown Legal Services (DLS) Toronto 211 — an online directory of community, social, health, and government services available in Toronto
From Community Legal Education Ontario comes a similar publication, «Police Powers: Stops and Searches», which is also available in French, Spanish, Urdu, Arabic and American Sign Language (video).
Local organizations
like Community Legal Education Association (CLEA) in Manitoba operate efficiently and effectively, but are not able to fully meet the PLEI needs of their communities.
CALC, in collaboration
with Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO), aimed to reach all public libraries in Hastings, Prince Edward, and Lennox and Addington counties in order to help build legal literacy in those communities.
Conduct community legal education on and raise public awareness concerning regulation, industry practices and consumer issues in the areas of banking, credit and debt and other financial services.
There are many roads to enhancing access to justice across Canada and I have been fortunate to travel several of these via involvement with Manitoba organizations like Legal Aid Manitoba,
Community Legal Education Association, Fort Garry Women's Resource Centre and Legal Help Centre of Winnipeg.
Led
by Community Legal Education Ontario, Steps to Justice provides clear language, reliable and practical information about common legal problems.
In June 2007 the Commission was funded by the Attorney - General's Department to develop and deliver an education module for these 15
Community Legal Education workers.
Students may engage
in community legal education through one of the student Legal Aid Society's pro bono projects, or they may participate in legal clinics hosted by the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands.
For example, CLEOnet, a project
of Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO), makes available an online collection of legal information and resources produced by community agencies and community legal clinics across Ontario.
Flip Your Wig for Justice is a pledge - based fundraiser to support seven justice groups: the Association in the Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association,
Community Legal Education Ontario, the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children, the Ontario Justice Education Network, Pro Bono Law Ontario, and Pro Bono Students Canada.
Community Legal Education Ontario - CLEO - has lots of useful information on their web site, including this flow chart: Steps in a Family Law Case
The Community Legal Education Ontario Centre (CLEO) for Research & Innovation conducts research and initiates projects to help build the capacity of the community sector to reach marginalized communities with effective legal information.
He also lectures through
the Community Legal Education Association and he is a seminar leader for the Law Society of Manitoba CPLED.
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO), under the direction of Julie Matthews, in the past two years has sought to establish itself as a research leader in Canada on PLEI.
At TPL's Lillian Smith Library tomorrow,
Community Legal Education Ontario will be launching its new series of standard pamphlets of starter kit information for recent immigrants.
Phase 2 involves 4 organizations: PovNet (a poverty - law network),
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO), Éducaloi (Quebec - based public legal education site), and Courthouse Libraries BC.
Another, which does receive legal aid funding, is
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) which is the lead organisation in a group of statutory and other bodies (including the Law Society of Upper Canada and the courts) that produce the Steps for Justice website.
The Flip Your Wig initiative is a light - hearted, pledge - based fundraising campaign running until the end of March to support the continuing efforts of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association,
Community Legal Education Ontario, METRAC — Action on Violence, Ontario Justice Education Network, and Pro Bono Students Canada.
An almost comparable institution in Ontario would be CLEO (
Community Legal Education Ontario), which is aimed more at «low - income and disadvantaged people» than Èducaloi seems to be (and which could do with a complete overhaul of its website).