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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.

Family and immigration law resources

The South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO) has legal information resources on family law, immigration, and legal supports. They’re available in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, Urdu, and Bengali.

Supporting LGBTQI+ refugee claimants in Canada

Recorded on June 11, 2025
Refugee claims based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics have specific challenges.
This webinar aims to help community workers better understand the difficulties LGBTQI+ people face in making refugee claims and what they can do to support them.
The webinar explores:

the challenges LGBTQI+ refugee claimants have in gathering convincing evidence to support their claims
the specific difficulties they face in the refugee hearing process
how their experiences before and after they move to Canada affect their mental health
the injustices they may experience in Canada
how important community support is for their mental health and safety
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Getting Help by Kathryne M. Young :: SSRN

In half of U.S. households, at least one person faces a civil justice problem each year. These problems range from eviction to divorce, benefits denials to neighbor disputes, and medical debt to employment discrimination. Most will never reach a court or a lawyer. Indeed, most will never be solved at all.

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 assembly,