PLEAC Webinars
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Decolonizing Access to Legal Information in Situations of Family Violence in Inuit Communities
How can we ensure public legal education initiatives on the topic of family violence prevention are guided and led by the needs of Inuit communities and reflective of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit principles?
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Inclusive Workplaces: A Short Workshop on Meaningfully Including 2-Spirit, Trans, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse People
Join Shae (they/them) and Shila (she/her) for a practical workshop orienting you to Moving Beyond the Binary, a lovely publication that launched on March 31st, International Day of Trans Visibility. This guide is filled with a wealth of useful information on meaningfully including gender diverse folks at work and has many supports and resources alongside the publication.
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Helping People Navigate the Justice System: An Evaluation of Legal Aid BCs Community Partners
In this session, the speakers provide a brief introduction to their 26 community partners and explain the process and findings for their recent evaluation of the program. The evaluation examines how services are provided across the province to marginalized individuals looking for help to identify and address their legal needs implementation plan.
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Evaluating Community Projects – Spotlighting the SHIFT Project, PEI Human Rights Commission
Do you have a community-based program and have no tangible metrics to describe how great it is? Not sure on how best to proceed with a required evaluation?
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This webinar provides an introduction to participatory evaluation for community organizations. It walks through key evaluation steps and provide practical tips and tricks using examples from community project evaluations across Canada. -
Achieving Digital Equity in a Post-Digital Era: Meeting the Challenge (Session 2)
Legal Aid BC’s Achieving Digital Equity (ADE) is a year-long research project funded by the LABC/Law Foundation Legal Research Fund. It examines the barriers to access and use of digital resources by lower income BC residents. The study explores digital issues and challenges, how many are affected, and what can be done to ensure people can access the services they need,
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Achieving Digital Equity in a Post-Digital Era: Meeting the Challenge (Session 1)
Legal Aid BC’s Achieving Digital Equity (ADE) is a year-long research project funded by the LABC/Law Foundation Legal Research Fund. It examines the barriers to access and use of digital resources by lower income BC residents. The study explores digital issues and challenges, how many are affected, and what can be done to ensure people can access the services they need,
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Guidelines for Better Legal Workshops: Best Practices for PLE Presentations
Access to Justice Week (A2J Week) brings together a range of justice sector stakeholders to develop meaningful, public-centred solutions that advance systemic change in the justice system. OJEN is pleased to support A2J Week in 2021 with activities for students, teachers, community workers, and legal professionals. To learn more about A2J Week events in Ontario,
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How to create and host a good legal information webinar in 2022
As we move into another year of online programming, our speakers present best practices, tips, and lessons learned on how to create and host a good legal information webinar in 2022. The speakers address the following three main questions:
What are the key considerations for preparing a webinar?
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Supporting trans, non-binary and gender diverse communities
Trans, non-binary, 2-Spirit, and gender diverse people deserve respect and understanding at work and in the world. Join Shila and Shae from Legal Information Society NS to learn about best practices when working with this demographic. They explore how to navigate pronouns, honorifics, sex, gender, restorative methods, and more.
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This webinar highlights broad takeaways from the Standing Together to Prevent Domestic Violence initiative, -
Using Guided Pathways as a tool in public legal education and information
This webinar profiles the use of guided pathways to curate relevant legal information, help users develop an action plan, or complete forms in a specific legal area. Legal Aid BC shares its experience in developing guided pathways on My Law BC. Community Legal Education Ontario profiles its use of guided pathways featured on Steps to Justice.
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