Searching for Community Legal Services

The City Clerk's staff provides the following services:

• administrative support to Council and its Committees, including agendas, minutes, communications, applications and requests. Hold corporate seal and provide corporate signing authority along with the Mayor
• keep originals of documents, e.g. by-laws, etc
• receive writs, actions and claims served upon the Municipality
• conduct municipal elections
• Division Registrar for deaths and issuer of marriage licenses
• property acquisitions/sales

Information available

• Marriage license data
• Death Registration data
• Election Information
• Commissioner for Oaths and Affidavits
• By-law Information
• Council Minutes

Services department

• parking services
• process writs, actions and insurance claims served on the Municipality
• maintain City Agreements Register
• freedom of Information services
• business Licensing services
• Commissioner for Oaths and Affidavits
• lottery licensing
• reception/switchboard - located on the first floor of City Hall, staff from this section meet and greet all visitors, first point of contact. Information services, including queries regarding both City Hall and the City in general are provided through the reception/information area and through the switchboard.

Business:

• business registrations

Driver and Vehicle:

• accessible parking permits
• copies of records
• drivers' licenses
• enhances drivers' licenses
• motorized snow vehicle permits
• off-road vehicle permits
• product sales
• vehicle permits and plates

Employment:

• workplace standards

Fish and Wildlife:

• fishing licenses
• hunting licenses
• outdoors card & misc.

Forms, Publications and Official Documents:

• authentification of documents

Health:

• Health Card services
• health care services
• organ and tissue donor

Housing and Property:

• Landlord and Tenant Board

Photo Identification:

• Ontario Photo Card

Taxes:

• Beer Tax
• Corporations Tax Insurance Premium
• Corporations Tax Payment-in-Lieu
• Debt Retirement Charge
• Employer Health Tax
• Estate Administration Tax
• Fuel Tax
• Gasoline Tax
• International Fuel Tax Agreement
• Land Transfer Tax
• Mining Tax
• Retail Sales Tax
• Retail Sales Tax Insurance Premium
• Tobacco Tax
• Wine Tax

Public Computer Available

This ServiceOntario centre does not intake paper applications, for the following services (available online only): Birth, Death, or Marriage Certificate, Search for a birth, death, or marriage registration, Articles of Amendment, Articles of Dissolution (Forms 10 & 11), and Articles of Incorporation.

Assessment, Therapy, Mediation and Employee Assistance Program Services

• Provides the full range of clinical and community consulting services to clients in Central and Eastern Ontario

Provides services to individuals and families from a range of referral sources including:

• Self referrals
• Employee Assistance Programs
• Publicly funded agencies and institutions and private service organizations

Three Tier Employee Assistance Program that includes:

• Employee Support Services including Psychological and Physical Assessment, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Services
• Workplace Support Services including Ergonomic Services and Programs, Workplace Accident and Injury Prevention Programs, and Healthy Workplace programs
• Organizational Development and Management Services for Change Management, Mediation and Conflict Resolution, and Operations Management

Therapeutic and Mediation Services

• Individual Solution-Focused Therapy
• Marriage, Couple, Family, Relationship and Separation Counselling
• Family, Divorce and Human Resource Mediation
• Autism treatment
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Trauma response and debriefing
• Play Therapy

Psychological Assessment

• Psychometric Assessment
• Intellectual, Personality, Vocational and Educational Assessment
• Risk Assessment
• Autism Assessment
• Addiction Assessment
• Capacity Assessment
• Pain and Disability Assessments
• WSIB, ODSP and Insurance Assessments

Assessment Services

• Custody and Access
• Capacity Assessment
• Parenting Capacity
• Home Studies
• Play Therapy

Training Services

• Assertiveness Training
• Parenting
• Anger Management Programs
• Staff Training Workshops

Group Home Services

• Intake Screening and Psychological assessments
• In-home client therapy
• Foster parent and staff consultation
• Home Studies
• Section Classroom Consultation
• Management leadership and staff training
• Human resource consultation

Many assessment and clinical services are funded in whole or in part by government funded agencies and institutions, non-profit organizations, insurance companies and Employee Assistance Programs.

• CV19 All offices are closed, public legal information groups are cancelled and no face to face appointments until further notice, however, staff is working remotely and assist by phone or by email
• Contact main office for assistance at 613-966-8686 or 1-877-966-8714 (March 28, 2020)

Non-profit community legal clinic provides:

• Access to justice through quality legal services
• Advocacy and information for people living on a low income or in poverty

Adult services and programs include:

• Record Suspension Assistance
• Anger Management Program
• Anti-Theft Program (Stop Shop Theft)
• One-on-One counseling, case management, advocacy and referrals
• Direct Accountability Program (DAP)

Program provides information on the family court process; assistance in preparing for family court proceedings including documenting history of abuse, accessing Legal Aid; referral to specialized services and supports in the community; safety planning; and court accompaniment to proceedings when appropriate

On-site and off-site support services for children who have witnesses violence offering both individual and group counseling services. Child Witness Programs, partnership and referral with other related agencies and educational programing.

Domestic abuse programs include:

• Counseling supports
• Advocacy & educational outreach
• Safety plan development
• Community Supports referrals
• Group programming for women and children who have experienced domestic abuse
• Training and Educational Services

On-site and off-site support services for children who have witnesses violence offering both individual and group counseling services. Child Witness Programs, partnership and referral with other related agencies and educational programing.

Program provides information on the family court process; assistance in preparing for family court proceedings including documenting history of abuse, accessing Legal Aid; referral to specialized services and supports in the community; safety planning; and court accompaniment to proceedings when appropriate

Domestic abuse programs include:

• Counseling supports
• Advocacy & educational outreach
• Safety plan development
• Community Supports referrals
• Group programming for women and children who have experienced domestic abuse
• Training and Educational Services

• Charitable arm of Highland Shores Children's Aid Society

Programs include:

• Camp Hope
• Playing for Keeps
• Family Services Care Program
• Helping Hands
• Reach for Success Bursary Program
• Counselling and Support
• Public Education & Awareness Programs

Environmental concerns

• CV19 All offices are closed and no face to face appointments until further notice, however, staff is working remotely and assist by phone or by email
• Contact main office for assistance at 613-966-8686 or 1-877-966-8714 (March 28, 2020)

Non-profit community legal clinic provides:

• Acess to justice through quality legal services
• Advocacy and information for people living on a low income or in poverty

Provides services coordination, advocacy, case conferencing, applying for and accessing funding, community services and long term planning

• for families supporting an individuals with intellectual disability

Municipal department

• dissemination of information to departments, the public, external agencies and bodies and other levels of government
• legislative process
• related activities for Council
• Committee of the Whole
• Ad Hoc Committees of Council
• provides secretariat support
• municipal and school board elections
• lottery licenses
• marriage licenses and civil marriage solemnization
• burial permits
• municipal freedom of information
• protection of privacy
• records management and county archives
• certification of municipal records
• death registrations
• commissioning of oaths and affidavits
• respository of county tenders

• CV19 All offices are closed and no face to face appointments until further notice, however, staff is working remotely and assist by phone or by email
• Contact main office for assistance at 613-966-8686 or 1-877-966-8714 (March 28, 2020)

Non-profit community legal clinic provides:

• Access to justice through quality legal services
• Advocacy and information for people living on a low income or in poverty

COVID-19 (November 9, 2021): Provincial and legal aid offices closed to the public. Services still offered by phone. Visit the website for latest service updates.

Lawyers available to give immediate legal assistance to people who appear in court without a lawyer

• assists with criminal or family law issues
• referrals to other legal aid services

Family duty counsel:

• advice about legal rights, obligations and the court process
• help to negotiate and settle issues
• help to review or prepare court documents to be filed
• assistance in the courtroom with child protection hearings, garnishment and support hearings, requesting adjournments, arguing motions, hearings for issues such as custody, access, or support where the issues are not complicated

Criminal duty counsel:

• advice about legal rights, obligations and the court process
• assistance in the courtroom for bail hearings and sentencing
• assistance with diversion, guilty pleas and adjournments
• may also provide assistance in specialized courts such as mental health, drug treatment, domestic violence and Aboriginal persons (Gladue) court

Helps low income individuals and families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and/or who require immediate and urgent assistance with:

• any rent, utility or heat service needs due to emergency, unforeseen or extenuating circumstances

COVID-19 Notice: Currently only our main Belleville office is open by appointment only.• staff are available by phone or email • contact our main office for help at 613-966-8686 (or toll-free 1-877-966-8686) or email us for help at https://bit.ly/calc-help.

Non-profit community legal clinic

• free legal help, advocacy and information for people living on a low income or in poverty. See the website for more information http://www.communitylegalcentre.ca

Children's protective services agency

• administers the Child and Family Services Act, deals with child abuse and neglect allegations, foster and alternate care for children, assistance to parents, and adoption study and placement
• offers a wide range of volunteer prevention services and services to families of children with special needs
• branch office in Northbrook

Access to a wide range of Ontario government services and information

• staff assistance, information and referral

Driver's licence:

• retake a driver's licence photo
• change information on a driver's licence
• convert an enhanced driver's licence to a regular driver's licence

Vehicle permits, plates and stickers:

• register a vehicle
• renew or replace a licence plate sticker
• get a temporary licence plate sticker
• change status of a vehicle permit
• replace a vehicle permit
• replace a licence plate
• order or replace a personalized licence plate
• order a sample personalized licence plate
• order a French slogan licence plate
• buy a personalized licence plate gift certificate
• get a dealer or service licence plate and permit
• get or replace an off-road vehicle permit
• get or replace an off-road vehicle licence plate
• get or replace a snow vehicle permit
• get a snow vehicle validation sticker

Accessible parking permit:

• get an accessible parking permit
• change information on an accessible parking permit * renew or replace an accessible parking permit

Driver and vehicle records:

• get or renew a commercial vehicle operator record
• order an off-road vehicle history record
• order a snow vehicle's history record

Health card and insurance (OHIP):

• switch to photo health card
• apply for a health card
• change the name on a health card
• replace a health card
• register to keep OHIP coverage while outside Canada
• resume OHIP coverage after moving back to Ontario

Photo card:

• get or renew an Ontario Photo Card

Authentication of documents:

• Commissioner of Oaths

COVID-19 (November 10, 2021): Provincial and legal aid offices closed to the public. Services still offered by phone. Visit the website for latest service updates.

Provides eligible clients with a certificate that covers the cost of hiring a lawyer to deal with serious types of civil or criminal cases

• helps with separation and child custody, but not divorce
• lawyers may or may not accept Legal Aid certificates

Services

• criminal legal issues
• domestic violence
• family legal issues
• mental health issues
• refugee and immigration legal issues
• legal clinics