Grants and Contributions

This project will increase access to the family justice system for victims of intimate partner violence by identifying service gaps and developing programs, services, and tools to better serve clients. The project will expand Luke's Place legal support training in Ontario and nationally through training, mentoring, and networking. The organizations' existing Service Delivery Toolkit will be updated as well as the Family Law Supports map with more accessible technology and up-to-date information for services.

This project will provide legal professional and other members of the public with information, research, templates and expert reports needed to help raise arguments related to individual and systemic anti-black racism in the Canadian justice system. BLAC will also be hiring and training System Navigators to provide information, advice and supports to Black people with low or no-income with legal issues.

The HIV Legal Network will create and provide public legal education and information materials and workshops to benefit Indigenous and Black people who are living with HIV/AIDS, and/or who use drugs.

This project will increase access to justice for racialized communities, including Indigenous peoples, through the development of public legal education and information resources and the provision of legal support for those navigating child protection processes in British Columbia.

This project will build the capacity of family law practitioners within Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Manitoba and BC to respond to family violence by promoting standardized assessment tools through workshops, webinars, and learning guides. The project will promote the HELP Toolkit, SAFeR (Screen, Assess, Focus and Respond), and RIA (Project Enhanced Safety: Risk Assessment Framework in Family Court). Furthermore, the project will enhance SAFeR by developing Canadian specific and web based resources for family law professionals to address the impact of family violence.

In partnership with the Justice Education Society, the Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society will develop concise legal information material based on the most common needs or marginalized and racialized clients. JES will develop a training curriculum to train PICS staff to deliver PLEI activities in legal topics workshops and to be equipped and empowered to provide legal guidance and referrals.

The Labrador Friendship Centre will hire an Indigenous Justice Navigator to work one-on-one with Indigenous clients who are involved in the Justice System. In collaboration with the Public Legal Information Association of NF's (PLIAN), the Indigenous Justice Navigator will provide support through their justice process and connect clients with lawyers throughout the province. Clients will also have access to interpretation and elder services through the program.

The Saint John Multicultural and Newcomers Resource Centre will provide legal information and legal advice/supports to members of racialized communities who are newcomers to Saint John, NB.

The 519 will expand their Access to Justice and Legal Initiative programs to include a dedicated project focused specifically on the needs and experiences of racialized clients by increasing access to legal information,advice and navigation support. This project aims to enable racialized LGBTQS2 community members to meaningfully engage with and participate in the justice system and also to improve the capacity of legal professionals and institutions to protect the rights of racialized LGBTQS2 community members.

The proposal seeks to support African Nova Scotian and/or Black people to access both PLEI and legal advice and support related to human rights, employment law, and policing issues.