Research Database
CLEO hosts a database of research on public legal education and information and access to justice. We add research reports on an ongoing basis. Make your selections below and click the Search button. Please note that the more selections you combine, the fewer research resources will be returned as you are narrowing the results. Help us make this a useful and comprehensive resource. Let us know if we've missed a report, or if your organization has conducted research relating to public legal education and information or access to justice that's not included here. You can reach us at info@cleoconnect.ca.Showing results 1 to 10 of 50
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Grasping at the Root: A look at Restorative and Transformative Justice for Black People in Canada
This report examines how restorative and transformative justice processes and programs operate within and in contrast to the criminal legal system in Canada. Through exploring the various origins, influences, and evolution of restorative and transformative justice initiatives over time and across borders, including the role of Africentric...
- Available in:
- English
- Produced by:
- Canadian Association of Black Lawyers
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2025
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Determining Health: Migrant health issue brief
This issue brief provides an overview of the health and health equity impacts of immigration status for migrants in Canada to build understanding and guide public health planning, policy and action. It is designed to help public health and health sector practitioners, decision-makers, researchers, educators and learners understand this complex...
- Available in:
- English
- Produced by:
- National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2025
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Rethinking Justice – Sentenced to Unemployment Employment Report
This report explores how criminal records continue to block access to employment for over one million Ontarians, even long after sentences are served. It also offers concrete, actionable recommendations to remove these barriers and build a more inclusive labour market.
- Available in:
- English
- Produced by:
- John Howard Society of Ontario
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2025
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Flourishing: A plan to strengthen public legal education and information, the BC PLEI Ecosystem Project
This report makes 30 recommendations to improve the resources and supports that help BC residents understand the law and navigate legal issues.
- Available in:
- English
- Produced by:
- Peter A. Allard School
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2025
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The Journey to Housing Stability for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
ACTO's Your Way Forward report explores survivors' journeys navigating the housing legal system in Ontario, identifies key barriers they face along their journey, and calls for urgently needed specialized services and policy changes to increase their access to justice and housing stability.
- Available in:
- English
- Format:
- Website
- Produced by:
- Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO)
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2025
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Community Legal Clinics and A2J Guided Interviews – October 2016
This report summarizes the activities, successes, and challenges of Clinic IP, a partnership of 17 community legal clinics in Ontario. Clinic IP is experimenting with A2J Guided Interviews, an online interactive software. The report discusses efforts to create tools that increase poverty law clinic capacity by helping with intake, document...
- Available in:
- English
- Produced by:
- Community Legal Clinic - Simcoe, Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2016
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Uneven Scales
This report examines the unique civil legal needs and collateral issues faced by Black and Indigenous people in Ontario who have been involved with the criminal legal system. These communities are disproportionately over-represented in the system and face collateral issues such as evictions, loss of income support, and loss of employment.
- Available in:
- English
- Format:
- Booklet/PDF
- Produced by:
- John Howard Society of Ontario
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2025
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Not in My Workplace: Addressing Workplace Exclusion of Individuals with Criminal Records
This report reveals many Canadian companies are missing out on qualified candidates due to outdated policies and the overuse of background checks that are maintaining barriers to labour market engagement for job candidates with criminal records.
- Available in:
- English
- Produced by:
- John Howard Society of Ontario
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2024
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Locked Up. Locked Out. The Revolving Door of Homelessness and Ontario’s Justice System
This report aims to demonstrates how justice system involvement is a leading cause – and result – of housing loss in Ontario. Drawing from data gathered from 175 individuals with experience of homelessness and justice involvement, JHSO researchers found that 41% of survey participants reported that their most recent experience of housing loss had...
- Available in:
- English
- Produced by:
- John Howard Society of Ontario
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2024
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Beyond the Surface: The Hidden Spectrum of FASD in the Justice System
Beyond the Surface: The Hidden Spectrum of FASD in the Justice System details the relationship between Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and the justice system in Ontario. The report demonstrates how individuals with FASD continue to be overrepresented in the criminal justice system, especially youth. Without diagnoses and FASD-informed...
- Available in:
- English
- Produced by:
- John Howard Society of Ontario
- Produced/Updated In:
- 2024