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  • Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto
    Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto (ALST) supports and advocates for the Aboriginal community and its members of Toronto to gain control over the legal and justice issues that affect them.
  • Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario
    The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) works to better the housing situation of Ontario residents who have low incomes including tenants, co-op members and people who are homeless.
    ACTO works with legal clinics, tenant associations and other groups and individuals concerned about housing issues.
  • Advocacy Centre for the Elderly
    The Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE) is a community based legal clinic for low-income senior citizens. ACE provides direct legal services to low-income seniors, public legal education, and engages in law reform activities. ACE services and activities are in relation to areas of law of special importance to the seniors' population.
  • ARCH - Disability Law Centre
    A Legal Resource Centre for Persons with Disabilities is a community-based not-for-profit legal clinic and legal resource centre in the Province of Ontario dedicated to defending and advancing the equality-rights of persons with disabilities.
  • Canadian Environmental Law Association
    The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) is a non-profit, public interest organization established in 1970 to use existing laws to protect the environment and to advocate environmental law reforms. It is also a free legal advisory clinic for the public, and will act at hearings and in courts on behalf of citizens or citizens' groups who are otherwise unable to afford legal assistance.
  • Chatham-Kent Legal Clinic
    The Chatham-Kent Legal Clinic offers a variety of legal services to low income residents of Chatham-Kent.
  • Clinique juridique Grand-Nord Legal Clinic
    Provides legal advice, assistance and representation in English and French to all communities between Cochrane and Hornepayne, in Northern Ontario.
  • Clinique juridique populaire de Prescott et Russell
    Since 1984, the Legal Clinic offers free legal and paralegal services to the population of the united Countires of Prescott and Russell.
  • Community Advocacy & Legal Centre
    Serves low income residents of Hastings, Prince Edward and Lennox & Addington counties. Main office is in Belleville; satellite locations in Trenton, Picton, Napanee, Bancroft and Madoc.
  • Community Legal Clinic - Simcoe, Haliburton, Kawartha Lakes
    Promoting access to legal services and improving the legal well-being of the community. Located in the following communities: Alliston, Barrie, Bradford, Christian Island, Collingwood, Haliburton, Lindsay, Midland, Minden and Orillia.
  • Community Legal Clinic of York Region
    The Community Legal Clinic of York Region helps people with housing issues for tenants, Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support Program, and Employment Insurance matters.
  • Durham Community Legal Clinic
    The Durham Community Legal Clinic offers a variety of legal services to low income residents of Durham Region. Their services include legal advice, legal representation, public legal education, advocacy training and community organizing.
  • Dundurn Community Legal Services
    Hamilton's three community legal clinics, Dundurn Community Legal Services, Hamilton Mountain Legal & Community Services and McQuesten Legal & Community Services, offer a variety of legal services to low income residents of Hamilton.
  • Elgin-Oxford Legal Clinic
    The Elgin-Oxford Legal Clinic offers services including traditional casework, summary advice, public legal education, law reform, and a wide range of community development activities.
  • Flemingdon Community Legal Services
    The Flemingdon Community Legal Services provides free legal assistance to low income people. They also provide public legal education, legal information, community development work and advocacy activities.
  • Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic
    The Grey-Bruce Community Legal Clinic is a law office which provides free legal information, advice and representation, as well as other services, to low income residents of Grey and Bruce Counties.
  • Legal Clinic of Guelph and Wellington County
    The Legal Clinic of Guelph and Wellington County provides free legal advice to low-income people in Guelph and Wellington County. The purpose of the Legal Clinic of Guelph and Wellington County is to effect social change through advocacy, education, empowerment or legal representation in the areas of poverty law.
  • Hamilton Mountain Legal and Community Services
    Hamilton's three community legal clinics, Dundurn Community Legal Services, Hamilton Mountain Legal & Community Services and McQuesten Legal & Community Services, offer a variety of legal services to low income residents of Hamilton.
  • HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic (Ontario)
    HALCO is a not-for-profit, community-based legal clinic serving low income People with HIV and AIDS (PHA's) in Ontario.
  • Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC)
    The Income Security Advocacy Centre works with and on behalf of low income communities in Ontario to address issues of income security and poverty. The Centre initiates and conducts test case and Charter litigation, law reform and community development related to federal and provincial income security programs such as Ontario Works, the Ontario Disability Support Program, Employment Insurance and the Canada Pension Plan.
  • Jane Finch Community Legal Services
    The Jane Finch Community Legal Services provides high quality legal services to the Jane Finch community. The Clinic provides free services in the areas of law that most affect low income individuals.
  • Justice for Children and Youth
    Justice for Children and Youth provides legal representation to low-income children and youth in Toronto and vicinity.
  • Keewaytinok Native Legal Services
    Keewaytinok Native Legal Services is a community legal clinic that provides free services to low income people and their organizations in the James and Hudson Bay areas of Northeastern Ontario.
  • Landlord's Self -Help Centre
    Landlord's Self Help Centre is an incorporated non-profit organization that provides information, assistance and educational programs to Ontario's small scale landlords free of charge.
  • Lanark, Leeds and Grenville Legal Clinic
    We provide free legal services to low income people and their organizations in the counties of Lanark, Leeds & Grenville in eastern Ontario.
  • McQuesten Legal and Community Services
    Hamilton's three community legal clinics, Dundurn Community Legal Services, Hamilton Mountain Legal & Community Services and McQuesten Legal & Community Services, offer a variety of legal services to low income residents of Hamilton.
  • Niagara North Community Legal Assistance
    General legal information or summary advice is available to all. Advocacy, advice, and representation are available to those who do not qualify for a Legal Aid certificate and who are not able to afford the services of a lawyer.
  • Northwest Community Legal Clinc
    The Northwest Community Legal Clinic services the Rainy River and Kenora Districts through three offices located in Fort Frances, Kenora and Atikokan, and monthly sub-offices in Red Lake and Ear Falls.
  • Ottawa Legal Aid Service
    There are four Community Legal Clinics and the University of Ottawa Community Legal Clinic serving the low income residents living in the amalgamated City of Ottawa.
  • Parkdale Community Legal Clinic
    Parkdale provides legal advice, assistance and representation to low income residents living in the Parkdale area.
  • Renfrew County Legal Clinic
    Renfrew County Legal Clinic is an independent not-for-profit corporation run by a board of directors made up of people who work or live in Renfrew County. The Clinic provides free legal services to residents of Renfrew County who face economic limitations.
  • Rexdale Community Legal Clinic
    The Rexdale Community Legal Clinic provides legal services to the low income community of Northern Etobicoke, carried out by lawyers and community legal workers, including activities which encourage access to justice by our community.
  • South Etobicoke Community Legal Services
    South Etobicoke Community Legal Services helps low-income people in the south-west part of the City of Toronto to defend their right to housing, their right to adequate income and their rights under The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. They work with community members and others to educate and organize disadvantaged people and help them make their voices heard in the development of laws and policies.
  • West End Legal Services of Ottawa
    We provide referrals, legal advice, representation, Tenant Duty Counsel services, and public legal education and community outreach services. We work with individuals, community groups and service providers to educate people of their legal rights and ensure access to justice for all people.
  • Waterloo Region Community Legal Services
    Provides numerous legal services to residents in the Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge area.
  • Your Legal Rights
    A project of CLEO, Your Legal Rights is a web site of legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario.


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Services for children:

  • The Office of the Children's Lawyer
    Delivers programs in the administration of justice on behalf of children under the age of 18 with respect to their personal and property rights.
  • Children's information portal
    Brings together information about all the children and youth programs and services provided by the Government of Ontario.
  • Children's Aid Society
    A non-profit agency that provides help and support to children and their families in local communities.

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  • Lawyer Referral Service (LRS)
    The LRS provides the name of a lawyer who will give you a free consultation of up to 30 minutes to help you determine your rights and options.
  • Justice Net
    Justice Net is a not-for-profit access to justice program that helps clients who do not qualify for legal aid, and whose net family income is below $59,000, to find lawyers willing to accept cases on a reduced fee basis.
  • Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN)
    Dedicated to promoting understanding, education, and dialogue to support a responsive and inclusive justice system.
  • Volunteer Lawyers Service (VLS)
    Offers free legal support, through volunteer lawyers, to eligible charitable and non-profit organizations in Ontario that otherwise could not afford the services of a lawyer.
  • Your lawyer and you
    Help in finding a lawyer or paralegal in Ontario.

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Resources for tenants and landlords

  • Landlord and Tenant Board
    Resolves disputes between landlords and tenants and provides information about the The Residential Tenancies Act and rights and obligations under the Act. Requests can be made to review an order under certain conditions.
  • Human Rights Legal Support
    The Human Rights Legal Support Centre offers free legal services to people throughout Ontario who believe their human rights under the Code have been violated and who want to file an application to the Tribunal. The Centre’s services range from legal advice and assistance in filing an application, to representation at mediations and hearings before the Tribunal.
  • Ontario Human Rights Commission
    The Commission is an agency established to administer Ontario's Human Rights Code, which protects people against discrimination in employment, accomodation, goods, services and and facilities, and membership in vocational association and trade unions.
  • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
    Ensures availability, accessibility and choice of housing funding to Canadians. The key Canadian source of reliable and objective housing information.


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Settling in Ontario

  • Settlement.org
    Information and answers on settling in Ontario
  • In My Language
    Information in 11 languages for newcomers to Ontario. Find out about immigration, housing, work, healthcare, educations, legal matters and more.
  • Government of Ontario - newcomers
    Provides information and resources needed to settle into life in Ontario.

Career development

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  • 211 Ontario
    Connect to information about community, social, health and related government services.
  • Service Ontario
    Offers a single window access to a wide range of information, services and resources offered by the government of Ontario.
  • Your Legal Rights A project of CLEO, Your Legal Rights is a web site of legal information for people in Ontario. This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find legal information produced by hundreds of organizations across Ontario.

Children and youth

  • Canada child and family benefits
    Offers information about financial support programs for children and families such as the Canada Child Tax Benefit, and Universal Child Care Benefit
  • Ministry of Children and Youth Services
    Makes it easier for families to find and access the services they need to give kids the best start in life at all stages of a child's development and to help youth become productive adults.
  • Ontario Child Care Supplement for Working Families
    This program gives eligible working families tax-free money every month to help with child care costs. To qualify, children must be under the age of seven.
  • Ontario Child Benefit
    Ontario Child Benefit is a monthly benefit paid to low income families with children under the age of 18.
  • Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP)
    OSAP provides eligible Ontario students with financial assistance to help pay for tuition, books, mandatory fees, living costs and transportation.

Financial/employment assistance

  • Ontario Works (OW)
    Ontario Works can provide people in temporary financial need with money to cover the costs of basic needs and with help for prepare for and find a job. They may also be able to provide health benefits, including drug and dental coverage, and additional benefits.
  • Canada Benefits
    Connects people to a range of federal benefits such as Employment Insurance (EI), education and training, housing, health, business.
  • Service Canada
    Offers access to a wide range of Canadian government programs and services.
  • Employment Ontario
    Ontario’s employment and training network with services for apprenticeships, job seekers, employers, and employees.
  • Social Benefits Tribunal
    Hears appeals about social assistance decisions that people receive under the Ontario Works Act, 1997 and the Ontario Disability Support Program Act, 1997.

Health

  • Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
    The Ontario Disability Support Program helps eligible people with disabilities by providing financial help and help finding a job.
  • Health Canada
    Health Canada helps people maintain and improve their health, while respecting individual choices and circumstances.
  • Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care
    Find information about the government of Ontario’s health and long-term care programs.
  • Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP)
    Residents of Ontario must have a valid Ontario Health Card to show that they are entitled to health care services paid for by OHIP. OHIP covers most Ontario health benefits across Canada.
  • Assistive Devices Program
    Provides personalized devices or equipment to Ontarians who have long-term physical disabilities.
  • Trillium Drug Program
    This program is intended for Ontario residents who have a valid Ontario Health Card and who have high prescription drug costs in relation to their net household income.
  • The Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee
    Delivers a range of services to protect your legal, personal and financial interests, as well as monitors the activities of Ontario charities.

Seniors

  • Advocacy Centre for the Elderly (ACE)
    ACE provides direct legal services to low-income seniors, public legal education, and engages in law reform activities.
  • Seniors Canada
    A comprehensive website for seniors-related information in Canada, including information on elder care.
  • Seniors Ontario
    Find links to information and resources to help plan for retirement, including finances, leisure activities, and health care resources.
  • Government of Ontario - Seniors resources
    Find links sorted by topic to services and information of interest to seniors.

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  • Justice for Children and Youth
    Provides legal representation to low-income children and youth in Toronto and area. Specializes in protecting the rights of those facing conflicts with the legal system, education, social service or mental health systems.
  • Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN)
    Dedicated to promoting understanding, education, and dialogue to support a responsive and inclusive justice system.
  • Youth justice information
    Publications, information and answers to questions about youth justice, the new Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), and the Youth Justice Renewal Initiative. Public Legal Education and Information (PLEI) material from across Canada.
  • Ministry of Children and Youth Services
    Provides youth justice services to youth, aged 12 to 17 at the time of their offence, who are charged with or convicted of criminal or provincial offences.
  • Court preparation guide
    Helps youth prepare for court.

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