Projects and Partnerships

› CLEONet
CLEONet is an online collection of legal information resources, news and events from community organizations and legal clinics. The site is intended to help community workers and advocates working with low-income and disadvantaged communities help their clients understand and exercise their legal rights.

› Connecting Consortium
CLEO is leading the development of an organizational model for a consortium that would build connections between legal and non-legal community organizations. The purpose of this "Connecting Consortium" is to improve the ability of non-legal community organizations to provide basic legal information and referral to their clients. A report on this phase of development will be available in October 2009.

› English as a Second Language Project
CLEO has developed materials at a range of levels to teach newcomers to Ontario in Adult ESL and LINC classes about their legal rights and responsibilities as they develop their language skills.

› Facilitator's Guide Workshops
A CLEO coordinator is available to support workshops using our new publication, Facilitator's Guide: Introducing front line workers to CLEO's legal rights handbook.

› Family Law Education for Women
CLEO participates in a consortium of community organizations called Family Law Education for Women (FLEW). The purpose of FLEW is to increase women's knowledge of their rights under Canadian and Ontario family law. FLEW has produced plain language legal information in many languages and in multiple formats on women’s rights under Ontario family law.

› Gladue
In partnership with the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres and Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, CLEO has developed materials on Gladue to inform Aboriginals who appear in court that their heritage must be taken into account during sentencing. For more information, please click here.

› Learn, Grow, Connect: Practicing Community Legal Education in a Diverse Ontario
CLEO has developed legal information in text and audio format on six high need topics in Chinese, Arabic, Tamil, Urdu, Spanish and Somali.

› Your Rights. Your Language.
CLEO has developed legal information in text and audio format on eight high need topics in Chinese, Arabic, Tamil, Urdu, Spanish and Somali. (This project was formerly called "Six Languages Text and Audio Project".)

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