Grants and Contributions

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

This project will lay the foundation for an Indigenous Law & Justice Institute at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University. The project will include three elements: growing relationships and partnering with regional First Nations communities, tribal councils and the Métis Nation of Ontario for the revitalization of Anishinaabe and Métis law; land-based and partnered learning opportunities for community members and law students, and continuing legal education opportunities for the regional practicing bar and the judiciary; and research to support the project's revitalization and curriculum development initiatives.

The organization will provide support and services informed by promising practices and evidence-based research for victims and survivors of sexualized violence. The project will employ a counsellor that will travel to local and rural communities where services are not currently available to provide counselling on an individual basis and in support group settings. The counsellor will also serve as a clinical supervisor for volunteer peer advocacy that will be carried out by trained crisis intervention workers.

The organization will increase access and participation of immigrant and refugee victims and survivors of crime in the Justice system by providing a holistic cultural brokering program. This approach will help to remove barriers unique to the newcomer population such as language and cultural differences, racism, social isolation and poverty. The organization will also collect crime statistics of immigrant and refugee victims of crime to inform policy and processes.

Through this project, Indigenous Courtwork Programs, in partnership with Ryerson University, will pilot innovative community-driven case coordination processes in five Canadian jurisdictions (British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Nunavut) with the aim to improve outcomes for Indigenous youth who are dually involved in the child welfare and youth justice systems. The approaches will be based on three key pillars: youth-centred, trauma informed and anti-oppressive practice; and involve multiple stakeholders from various service sectors (e.g. Justice, Child Welfare, Health, Education, etc.) who will coordinate through local steering committees to create a sustainable local infrastructure to address the complex needs of Indigenous youth who are dually involved. The objective of this project is to reduce/eliminate custody for Indigenous youth, reduce length of time spent in the youth criminal justice system, and prevent youth from graduating to the adult criminal justice sys

This project will provide First Nations in Ontario the expertise in Law Development within an Indigenous cultural context. Specifically, the Chiefs of Ontario will provide communities the legal and cultural expertise in the development of First Nations Child Welfare laws through the creation and use of a cultural framework and customized tool kits for the legislative process.

This project will implement Secwepemc Laws into practice. The implementation plan will build off of previous research projects that codified Secwepemc Laws into Tribal Casebooks, and will involve: (1) capacity building amongst members across Secwepemc communities; (2) developing curriculum and materials to support the processes of utilizing Indigenous laws into practice; and (3) creating an online database to store, share, and promote the access to Secwepemc law.