Legal information available through CLEO and CLEONet

March 2011

www.cleo.on.ca

• Information on key legal issues that affect low-income and disadvantaged communities across Ontario

• Legal rights information that is easy to understand, up to date, accurate, useful, and practical

• CLEO is a public legal education organization, and specialty community legal clinic, funded by Legal Aid Ontario and the Department of Justice

• Free of charge, print and online materials• 70 titles in English and French in core areas of law:

Criminal Family Health & Disability Immigration & Refugee Landlord & Tenant (Tenants' rights) Legal Services Seniors Social Assistance Work & Employment Insurance Workers' Compensation Youth Justice

www.cleo.on.ca

• One million print copies ordered and a million and a half downloads a year

• 3,000 organizations each year place orders: foodbanks, housing help centres, shelters, settlement agencies, hospitals, doctors’ offices

• Many orders from justice sector organizations: community legal clinics, police, legal aid related services

• Materials designed to be used in a variety of interactive ways:

• workshops and presentations• displays at events, booths, public venues• resources for staff• handouts and mailings for clients• office pamphlet racks

Arabic

Chinese

English

French

• Children's aid: Information for parents

• Criminal charges in Canada and your immigration status

• Do you want to sponsor your family to join you in Canada?

• Does your landlord want you to move out?

• Has your child been charged with a crime?

• Refugee claims in Canada

• Renting a place to live

• Your rights as a worker

Somali

Spanish

Tamil

Urdu

www.cleonet.ca

New initiatives and wrap-up• Connecting Communities Consortium Project• Committed to working in partnership• Critical that people who live in poverty or who

are otherwise marginalized are able to find the information they need – “the right information, in the right place, at the right time”

CLEOwww.cleo.on.ca E: cleo@cleo.on.ca T: 416-408-4420

Kim McCutcheon (today’s presenter)E: mccutck@lao.on.ca T: 416-408-4420 ext. 32

CLEONetwww.cleonet.ca

Fiona MacCool, CLEONet Project ManagerE: fionamaccool@cleonet.ca T: 416-408-4420 ext. 29