Resource collection

Know Your Rights

The HIV Legal Network also has guides for Indigenous women and African, Caribbean, and Black women living with HIV and affected by intimate partner violence.

Know Your Rights

The HIV Legal Network has fact sheets on the rights of people living with HIV.

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Toolkit: Navigating the Justice System

This toolkit supports people living with acquired brain injuries who are involved in the justice system. It offers information for individuals, caregivers, and service providers, along with practical strategies and supports that may help.

Safe and Secure

This guide provides practical information about long-term planning, including building support networks, thinking about financial security, and accessing programs and benefits that can help create stability and independence.

Starting strong: A toolkit for new Family Councils

This toolkit from Family Councils Ontario helps families and friends of residents start or strengthen a Family Council in long-term care homes.

Santé mentale et démarches juridiques après un décès

CLEO a organisé la rencontre « Santé mentale et démarches juridiques après un décès » le 15 octobre 2025 à Ottawa, en Ontario.

Cet événement a rassemblé des personnes travaillant en intervention communautaire, des psychothérapeutes et des experts juridiques pour explorer les questions de santé mentale et comprendre les enjeux juridiques après...

Disability Tax Credit

Connecting Ottawa has produced an information sheet on the Disability Tax Credit. It covers who can get it, how to apply, and what to do if an application is denied.

 

Capacity and substitute decision-making resources

Grey Bruce Community Legal Clinic has created a collection of resources to help people understand capacity to make decisions and the substitute decision making process. These include:

• Capacity to make decisions about property in Ontario
• Capacity to make decisions about personal care in Ontario
• Information about...

Accessing health benefits in Ontario

Recorded on July 16, 2025

Many people with low incomes in Ontario cannot afford health services not covered by the Ontario Health Insurance Program (OHIP). For example, vision and dental care, and prescription drugs. Other publicly funded programs offer these health services, but the programs are difficult to navigate.

The Income Security...

First Nations Child and Family Services and Jordan’s Principle Settlement

First Nations Child and Family Services has a website and factsheet that explain who is eligible and how to submit claims for compensation under the Settlement. The Settlement includes compensation for eligible First Nations individuals and families who were harmed by discriminatory underfunding of the First Nations Child and Family Services...