Research has demonstrated that organizations derive clear benefits when they involve persons with lived experience (PWLE) in high level planning and decision-making. Organizations incorporating PWLE are enabled to offer services that are more culturally appropriate,
By creating tailored and innovative community justice models that meet individuals where they are at and respond to community needs, Ontario’s Justice Centre Pilots offer a transformative approach to criminal justice. This presentation will be
Every summer, the Local, Regional and Provincial HSJCCs complete Annual Reports detailing the results of the work that they’ve completed over the past fiscal year. This process gives us the opportunity to reflect on the
CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario) is offering the HSJCC Network a training webinar series on legal capability. Legal capability involves the knowledge and skills needed to address a problem with a legal aspect.
Webinar Description: This webinar will explore the current landscape of community-based, non-police crisis response models in Ontario. In conversation with advocates from the Reach Out Response Network and Gerstein Crisis Centre, this presentation will provide
Unequal Justice: Experiences and outcomes of young people in Ontario’s youth bail system presented by John Howard Society of Ontario Webinar Description: Participants of this webinar will learn about a unique research project conducted by
A webinar presented by the North York Local Human Services and Justice Coordinating Committee on March 31, 2021. Learning Objectives/Discussion Overview: Presenters: Sade Makinde (she/her), Community Legal Worker at Black Legal Action Centre (BLAC). She
Dr. Trevor Morey is a palliative care physician with the PEACH team (Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless) an outreach team that provides palliative and end of life care for people experiencing homelessness in
Webinar Description: This webinar is a learning opportunity to provide the tools and resources to better equip service providers in the human services and justice sectors when dealing with someone from the LGBTQ2S community. In
Webinar Synopsis This training will provide information on BIST’s Legal Education Awareness Project (LEAP), a web-based toolkit developed in partnership with the Law Foundation of Ontario to increase knowledge and awareness of challenges faced by
Research suggests that a substantial percentage of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder encounter the police in their lifetime. Police interactions are stressful events for anyone but can be especially stressful and problematic for Autistic people.
This presentation seeks to show how the lived experience of addiction reflects the neuroscience that informs us by matching the presenter’s lived experience with information from The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health
BackgroundMental health recovery narratives are stories of recovery from mental health problems. Narratives may impact in helpful and harmful ways on those who receive them. The objective of this paper is to develop a change
Every summer, the Local, Regional and Provincial HSJCCs complete Annual Reports detailing the results of the work that they’ve completed over the past fiscal year. This process gives us the opportunity to reflect on the
BackgroundDespite the documented continued use of traditional healing methods, modalities and its associated practitioners by Indigenous groups across North America, it is presumed that widespread knowledge is elusive amongst most Western trained health professionals and
Presented by Legal Aid Ontario and Nikki Knows/Project OASIS, in collaboration with the City of TorontoFacilitator: Nikki BrownePresenters: Chad Skinner, Rita Roy, Evan Sarazen Legal Aid OntarioJune 5, 2020
CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario/Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario) is offering a webinar on StepstoJustice.ca, a website with legal information on common legal problems. This webinar is for people working in the health and justice systems who
During 2018, nine deaths by suicide occurred among serving and retired police officers in the province of Ontario. This number was thought to be unprecedented*. Soon after the year ended, the Office of the Chief
Many individuals are impacted by the aftermath of traumatic and victimizing experiences, resulting from accidents, illnesses, interpersonal violence and other traumas. About 75% of these individuals will evidence resilience (Meichenbaum, 2012). Resilience is the ability
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is an invisible brain-based disability that arises due to prenatal alcohol exposure. FASD is one of the leading causes of developmental disabilities in North America. Understanding the structural changes in
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