METRAC Legal Information Training 2011

Your Legal Rights: An Introduction

Presentation by Fiona MacCoolYour Legal Rights Project Manager

CLEOCommunity Legal Education Ontario / Éducation juridique communautaire

Ontario

• For 40 years CLEO has provided free, reliable and accessible information to help people understand and exercise their legal rights.

• On key legal issues in areas such as housing,employment, family law, social assistance,immigration, and more.

• Available in English, French, and sixother languages.

“CLEO materials are aremarkable self-education tool for vulnerable peopleexperiencing poverty and homelessness...and also an excellent resource for service providers.”

“ There are very few materialsthat I trust enough to give out to clients and to people attending workshops, but I know that I can count on the accuracy and accessibility of CLEO’s publications. I rely on CLEO materials on an almost daily basis.”

What community workers say about CLEO’s materials:

Visit our website to learn more about our work and to order publications free of charge, print them off, or read them online.

www.cleo.on.ca

• Conducting research and initiating projects to help build the capacity of the community sector to reach marginalized communities with effective legal information

• Building on two partnership-based projects already underway: Connecting Communities and Your Legal Rights

• Pilot project funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario to improve access to legal information and services for people who don’t speak English or French or who live in rural and remote communities

• Community organizations can work with partners to develop an innovative legal information training project or join a province-wide community legal education network and learning exchange

• Contact Vivien Green, Project Manager, greenv@lao.on.ca www.cleoconnectingcommunities.ca

What is Your Legal Rights?A project of CLEO, Your Legal Rights is a website of free legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario.

http://yourlegalrights.on.ca

Site Features:• Resources - Legal information covering a wide range of

legal topics, in a variety of formats, and available in dozens of languages

• Common Questions - Questions and answers to everyday legal problems

• Find Services - Interactive map of key legal and social services across Ontario

• Training - Public legal education training webinars for service providers

• News & Events - The latest headlines and community events about the law and access to justice

Subscribe to our daily Your Legal Rights Email Bulletin or a weekly bulletin of legal information, a common question of the week, and a weekly bulletin of our latest training webinars. For more information or to subscribe visit: Email Bulletins.

Customized Updates from Every Section

Free and easy to add to your site, our content feeds provide your web site with up to date content from Your Legal Rights.

How our feeds look on other websites

• Our Latest News - Campaigns and Law Reform feed on the Income Security Advocacy Centre website.• Our Latest Common Questions - Human Rights feed on the Community Advocacy and Legal Centre website• Our Latest News - Employment and Work feed on the Injured Workers Online website

Content Feeds

METRAC Legal Information Training 2011

Keep in touch!Fiona MacCool

Your Legal Rights Project ManagerTel: 416-408-4420 ext. 829

Email: fionamaccool@yourlegalrights.on.caWeb site: http://www.yourlegalrights.on.ca

Twitter Feed: http://twitter.com/legalrightsONCLEONet Facebook Page:

http://www.facebook.com/yourlegalrights