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Legal information available through CLEO and CLEONet March 2011
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: [email protected] T: 416-408-4420
Kim McCutcheon (today’s presenter)E: [email protected] T: 416-408-4420 ext. 32
CLEONetwww.cleonet.ca
Fiona MacCool, CLEONet Project ManagerE: [email protected] T: 416-408-4420 ext. 29
