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Legal and Medical Resources
Legal Resources
A collection of links to legal services/lawyers that
Specialize in Education Law.
Home School Legal Defense Association
- Home School Legal Defense
Association is a nonprofit advocacy organization established to defend and
advance the constitutional right of parents to direct the education of their
children and to protect family freedoms. Through annual memberships, HSLDA is
thousands of families united in service together, providing a strong voice when
and where needed.
A free service of Pro Bono Law
Ontario!
CAP is a registered project of Pro Bono Law Ontario conducted in partnership
with The Advocates' Society (Ontario's largest law association) and Justice
for Children and Youth. CAP is dedicated to safeguarding the public
education rights of children and youth across Ontario. The volunteer lawyers
who take CAP cases are experienced and trained in Education Law. CAP lawyers
work for free. CAP lawyers provide free legal services to:
Students who are involved in the Special Education
process.
Children and youth who are at risk of being
suspended or expelled.
Children and youth who are being denied the right to
enroll in school.
Students who feel unsafe at school.
View their brochure
here
Legal Aid Ontario Links - Community Legal Clinics
Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto
Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto (ALST) supports and
advocates for the Aboriginal community and its members of Toronto to gain
control over the legal and justice issues that affect them.
ARCH - Disability Law
Centre
A Legal Resource Centre for Persons with Disabilities is a
community-based not-for-profit legal clinic and legal resource centre in the
Province of Ontario dedicated to defending and advancing the equality-rights of
persons with disabilities.
Chatham-Kent Legal Clinic
The Chatham-Kent Legal Clinic offers a variety of legal
services to low income residents of Chatham-Kent.
Clinique
juridique Grand-Nord Legal Clinic
Provides legal advice, assistance and representation in
English and French to all communities between Cochrane and Hornepayne, in
Northern Ontario.
Community Advocacy
& Legal Centre
Serves low income residents of Hastings, Prince Edward and
Lennox & Addington counties. Main office is in Belleville; satellite locations
in Trenton, Picton, Napanee, Bancroft and Madoc.
Community Legal
Clinic - Simcoe, Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes
Promoting access to legal services and improving the legal
well-being of the community. Located in the following communities: Alliston,
Barrie, Bradford, Christian Island, Collingwood, Haliburton, Lindsay, Midland,
Minden and Orillia.
Community Legal Clinic of York
Region
The Community Legal Clinic of York Region helps people
with housing issues for tenants, Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support
Program, and Employment Insurance matters.
Community Legal Education
Ontario
CLEO is a community legal clinic that produces clear
language material for people with low incomes. Main topics include social
assistance, landlord and tenant law, refugee and immigration law, workers'
compensation, women's issues, family law, employment insurance and human rights.
Durham
Community Legal Clinic
The Durham Community Legal Clinic offers a variety of
legal services to low income residents of Durham Region. Their services include
legal advice, legal representation, public legal education, advocacy training
and community organizing.
Dundurn Community
Legal Services
Hamilton's three community legal clinics, Dundurn
Community Legal Services, Hamilton Mountain Legal & Community Services and
McQuesten Legal & Community Services, offer a variety of legal services to low
income residents of Hamilton.
Elgin-Oxford Legal Clinic
The Elgin-Oxford Legal Clinic offers services including
traditional casework, summary advice, public legal education, law reform, and a
wide range of community development activities.
Flemingdon Community
Legal Services
The Flemingdon Community Legal Services provides free
legal assistance to low income people. They also provide public legal education,
legal information, community development work and advocacy activities.
Grey-Bruce Community
Legal Clinic
The Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic is a law office
which provides free legal information, advice and representation, as well as
other services, to low income residents of Grey and Bruce Counties.
Legal Clinic of Guelph and
Wellington County
The Legal Clinic of Guelph and Wellington County provides
free legal advice to low-income people in Guelph and Wellington County. The
purpose of the Legal Clinic of Guelph and Wellington County is to effect social
change through advocacy, education, empowerment or legal representation in the
areas of poverty law.
Hamilton Mountain
Legal and Community Services
Hamilton's three community legal clinics, Dundurn
Community Legal Services, Hamilton Mountain Legal & Community Services and
McQuesten Legal & Community Services, offer a variety of legal services to low
income residents of Hamilton.
Jane
Finch Community Legal Services
The Jane Finch Community Legal Services provides high
quality legal services to the Jane Finch community. The Clinic provides free
services in the areas of law that most affect low income individuals.
Justice for Children and Youth
Justice for Children and Youth provides legal
representation to low-income children and youth in Toronto and vicinity.
Keewaytinok
Native Legal Services
Keewaytinok Native Legal Services is a community legal
clinic that provides free services to low income people and their organizations
in the James and Hudson Bay areas of Northeastern Ontario.
Lanark, Leeds and Grenville
Legal Clinic
We provide free legal services to low income people and
their organizations in the counties of Lanark, Leeds & Grenville in eastern
Ontario.
McQuesten Legal
and Community Services
Hamilton's three community legal clinics, Dundurn
Community Legal Services, Hamilton Mountain Legal & Community Services and
McQuesten Legal & Community Services, offer a variety of legal services to low
income residents of Hamilton.
Niagara North
Community Legal Assistance
General legal information or summary advice is available
to all. Advocacy, advice, and representation are available to those who do not
qualify for a Legal Aid certificate and who are not able to afford the services
of a lawyer.
Ottawa
Legal Aid Service
There are four Community Legal Clinics and the University
of Ottawa Community Legal Clinic serving the low income residents living in the
amalgamated City of Ottawa.
Parkdale Community Legal
Clinic
Parkdale provides legal advice, assistance and
representation to low income residents living in the Parkdale area.
Renfrew County
Legal Clinic
Renfrew County Legal Clinic is an independent
not-for-profit corporation run by a board of directors made up of people who
work or live in Renfrew County. The Clinic provides free legal services to
residents of Renfrew County who face economic limitations.
Rexdale
Community Legal Clinic
The Rexdale Community Legal Clinic provides legal services
to the low income community of Northern Etobicoke, carried out by lawyers and
community legal workers, including activities which encourage access to justice
by our community.
South Etobicoke
Community Legal Services
South Etobicoke Community Legal Services helps low-income
people in the south-west part of the City of Toronto to defend their right to
housing, their right to adequate income and their rights under The Immigration
and Refugee Protection Act. They work with community members and others to
educate and organize disadvantaged people and help them make their voices heard
in the development of laws and policies.
West End Legal Services of
Ottawa
We provide referrals, legal advice, representation, Tenant
Duty Counsel services, and public legal education and community outreach
services. We work with individuals, community groups and service providers to
educate people of their legal rights and ensure access to justice for all
people.
Waterloo Region Community Legal
Services
Provides numerous legal services to residents in the
Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge area.
Medical Resources
The
Association of Chief Psychologists
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The Association of Chief Psychologists
with Ontario School Boards is a voluntary
professional organization dedicated to the promotion and development of
psychological services in schools in the best interests of the students, parents
and the school community. Members are all Chief or Senior psychologists of
Ontario school boards who have extensive training and experience in assessment,
diagnosis and treatment of children with learning and behavioural problems.
Contact Information
Christina Walsh, Educational Advocate
Back to Basics Educational Services
Tel: 519-925-9164
Email:
Special Education Advocate
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