Public legal education
Clinics provide public legal education to the general public, clients, community agencies, etc. Public legal education informs people about their legal rights and obligations.
Below are some examples of Halton Community Legal Services' public legal education activities.
Distribution of public legal education materials
Our clinic maintains an up to date stock of public legal education materials. While the majority of these materials come from CLEO, Community Legal Education Ontario, a community legal clinic that specializes in public legal education, we also stock and distribute materials produced by other specialty clinics, the Ministry of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice. Materials are provided to individual clients as well as to other agencies for distribution. Examples of agencies that contacted the clinic for pamphlets are St. Vincent De Paul Society, Family Law Information Centre, Georgetown Alliance Church, Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, City of Burlington, Information Oakville.
Presentations to ONTrack Participants
OnTrack is the basic pre-employment program for hard-to-serve clients receiving Ontario Works income assistance. It prepares clients for community placements and paid employment. Program content covers computer training, high school credits, math and English upgrading, job skills, career exploration and goal setting. Each session of ONTrack includes a public legal education presentation by the legal clinic community legal worker. The clinic involvement with this program extends back almost ten years.
Landlord and Tenant Board Mock Hearing
The clinic has developed a mock hearing project for the high schools civics class. Students at Georgetown District High School have participated in the project which has them learn about landlord and tenant issues by taking part in a role playing exercise that has them experience all aspects of a proceeding before the Landlord and Tenant Board. |
