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Just Care Dreams Toolkit

Towards Just Care has launched the Just Care Dreams toolkit for those who want to fight for more just home care systems and supports. It can help people work together to improve Ontario’s home care systems for both low-income care receivers and direct care workers.

Toolkits for racialized people living with a disability and dealing with the criminal legal system

Disability Justice Network Ontario has toolkits for racialized people living with a disability and dealing with the criminal legal system. They also include information that professionals and family and friends can use. The Network also has a printable, plain language toolkit for people in jail. It’s available in various versions, such as large...

The Right to Decide – Community Living Ontario

These resources from Community Living Ontario help outline the decision-making rights of people with intellectual disabilities. They define “legal capacity” and supported decision-making, as well as address issues with substitute decision-making. The series also includes information specific to banking and to youth.

CPP-Disability: A Guided Pathway to request reconsideration or appeal when denied

Recorded on June 6, 2024

Do you support clients who applied for Canadian Pension Plan–Disability (CPP-D) benefits and were denied? Or who had their request for reconsideration declined? This webinar will help community workers understand the CPP-D reconsideration and appeal processes. Our presenters will walk you through the steps to help you...

Toolkit to help newcomer youth get health care

The National Newcomer Navigation Network has created Navigating the Ontario Healthcare System, a toolkit for youth in Ontario. The toolkit explains how they can access OHIP and the Interim Federal Health program. It has a template letter and card that youth can give to health-care providers to help them access care and ask for an interpreter.

Healthcare options for pregnant international college students

The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund, in partnership with Settlement.org and Waterloo Region Community Legal Services, has created a one-page factsheet Pregnant and an international college student? What you need to know! for those who don’t have access to health insurance coverage.

Droits des personnes 2SLGBTQ+ au sein des foyers de soins de longue durée et des maisons de retraite

Enregistré le 25 avril 2024

Cet atelier s'adresse aux personnes francophones travaillant en intervention souhaitant acquérir des connaissances pratiques et des stratégies pour soutenir et défendre les droits des aîné.es 2SLGBTQ+ dans les établissements de soins de longue durée.

Conférencière:
Me Monique Woolnough est avocate à la...

Foyers de soins de longue durée – Processus d’admissibilité et droits des résidents

Enregistré le 7 mars 2024

Cette session abordera les différences fondamentales entre les maisons de retraite et les foyers de soins de longue durée.

Conférencière :
Me Monique Woolnough est avocate à la clinique juridique francophone d’Ottawa, membre du Barreau de l’Ontario depuis 2014. Elle a pratiqué le droit dans les cliniques...

Partnerships between health care and the legal sector in Ontario: What’s next

Recorded on December 7, 2023

Hear our expert panelists talk about the role that health and justice partnerships can play in a strong public health care system and in improving health outcomes for community members.

Panelists: Lee Ann Chapman, Michele Leering, and Dr. Rami Shoucri.

 

NOTE: We have provided a handout on...

Protecting Lands and Waters: A Toolkit

This toolkit from Canadian Environmental Law Association can help Indigenous nations, communities and non-governmental organizations in Ontario use indigenous protected and conserved areas (IPCAs) as an emerging legal mechanism for protecting lands and water. Download the full kit, or download parts of the kit at this link.