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A non-profit bilingual community legal clinic serving low income residents of Hamilton. In addition, to providing 'traditional' poverty law services including legal advice and referrals and legal representation, the clinic is involved in public legal education, community development and law reform.
Services are offered via phone or online. Special accommodations are available for those without access to a phone or internet. Please contact or visit the website for more details.
Legal Services provided include but are not limited to:
Services are offered via phone or online. Special accommodations are available for those without access to a phone or internet. Please contact or visit the website for more details.
Legal Services provided include but are not limited to:
- Housing rights
- Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP)
- Ontario Works
- Employment Insurance
- Family, Criminal, and Employment Law
- Wills
- Immigration
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Provides lawyers who volunteer their time to make wills for people who cannot afford to pay for these services. Can assist people with disabilities, people with terminal illnesses, single parents, and low-income adults.
Operates out of the office of the Hamilton Community Legal Clinic.
Operates out of the office of the Hamilton Community Legal Clinic.
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Community legal clinic that helps low income individuals living in Halton with their legal problems, for free
- office is located in Oakville, but staff are available to meet clients in Milton, Burlington, Oakville, and Halton Hills (Georgetown and Acton)
- community outreach clinics at various locations including local libraries, food banks, courthouses, and outreach organizations on a rotating basis
Depending on the kind of problem, may be able to help by providing:
- Summary Advice
- Brief Services
- Representation
- Referrals for legal problems they cannot assist with, and to other community organizations like food banks, social and health services, crisis intervention agencies, and navigation help
Support can be provided for:
- Income Support and Public Benefits
- Housing Law
- Employment Rights
- Human Rights
- Secondary Legal Consultation
- Indigenous Rights and Services
- Youth Rights
Mobile Legal Clinic
- serving Acton and Georgetown
- a lawyer on site providing free legal information and advice in each community on alternating Fridays
- schedule will be posted on social media
ID Clinic
- offering monthly ID Clinics to provide assistance with the legal barriers preventing members of the Trans, Non-Binary, and Queer communities from accurately identifying themselves on official documents
- more information on website (haltonlegal.ca/id-clinic)
Legal Health Check-Up
- an online check-up to help people who are living in poverty identify legal problems and get help
- if you do not have enough money to live on, a good home or job, or family, social and health supports, your legal health may be at risk
- visit website to take the check-up (legalhealthcheckup.ca)
Note:
- HCLS does not provide a full range of services, nor does it provide legal aid certificates
- callers needing certificates or help in family law, criminal law, Workplace Safety and Insurance Board compensation, etc. should contact a Legal Aid of Ontario office
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Free legal services for low-income people funded by Legal Aid Ontario
- advice and representation available through this Nonprofit independent community legal clinic to clients who have issues such as housing, social assistance (OW,ODSP,CPP-D), government pensions and employment insurance and Employment
- Residential tenancies (for tenants)
- Employment Insurance (EI)
- Employment issues
- Income Maintenance (OW)
- Disability issues (ODSP, CPP-D)
- Consumer Protection
- Notary services
- an online check-up to help people who are living in poverty identify legal problems and get help
- if you do not have enough money to live on, a good home or job, or family, social and health supports, your legal health may be at risk
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Community Legal Aid Clinic providing advice and/or representation in areas such as:
No services in family, criminal
- Landlord-tenant
- Consumer
- Ontario Works
- Ontario Disability
- Canada Pension Plan Disability
- Limited services offered in employment and immigration
No services in family, criminal
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COVID19 -- in person meetings suspended, intake by phone
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Community legal clinic
Satellite clinic held at
Malton Neighbourhood Services, 3540 Morning Star Dr, Thursdays 3 pm-6 pm
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Community legal clinic
- deals primarily with tenant issues, Ontario Works (OW), Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Canada Pension Plan Disability (CPP-D), employment, subsidized housing, immigration (limited)
- may provide representation
- referrals
- community education
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
Satellite clinic held at
Malton Neighbourhood Services, 3540 Morning Star Dr, Thursdays 3 pm-6 pm
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Office: 519-821-2100
Toll Free (within Wellington County): 1-800-628-9205
Fax: 519-821-8192
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Toll Free (within Wellington County): 1-800-628-9205
Fax: 519-821-8192
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Assists tenants who have issues with their landlord, including:
Assists non-unionized workers who have questions about:
Referrals given for areas of law that the Legal Clinic does not practice, including family law, criminal law, Workplace Safety and Insurance Board matters, human rights law, traffic offences, and civil litigation issues
Legal Health Check-Up:
- evictions
- rent increases
- maintenance and tenant rights issues
- rent-geared-to-income housing concerns and reviews
- eligibility
- denial or suspension of benefits
- overpayments
- assistance applying for OW or ODSP
Assists non-unionized workers who have questions about:
- rights in the workplace including unpaid wages, leaves of absence, reprisal, termination and severance pay
- wrongful dismissal
- workplace harassment and discrimination
Referrals given for areas of law that the Legal Clinic does not practice, including family law, criminal law, Workplace Safety and Insurance Board matters, human rights law, traffic offences, and civil litigation issues
Legal Health Check-Up:
- online check-up to help people living in poverty to identify legal problems and get help
- without adequate money to live on, a good home or job, or family, social and health supports, an individual's legal health may be at risk
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COVID19 -- offering services remotely, call, email or complete intake form on website
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Community legal clinic
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Community legal clinic
- deals primarily with tenant issues, Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Employment and immigration
- may provide representation
- referrals
- community education
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
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COVID19 -- clinic is operating but no longer conducting face to face meetings, call and leave message
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Community legal clinic
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Community legal clinic
- deals primarily with tenant issues, Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), immigration, Employment Insurance (EI), workers' rights, advocacy and education on poverty law issues
- speakers
- assistance in community group development
- law reform
- referrals
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
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Provides summary legal advice, legal representation, and public education on legal matters.
Areas of law that the clinic deals with:
Satellite locations (by appointment only):
Canadian Mental Health Association
20 Jarvis Street, Fort Erie
Tuesdays
Community Care of St. Catharines & Thorold
19 Albert Street West, Thorold
Wednesdays
Port Cares
92 Charlotte Street, Port Colborne
Thursdays
Lighthouse Church
241 Elmwood, Crystal Beach
Thursdays
Areas of law that the clinic deals with:
- Ontario Disability Support Program
- Workplace Safety and Insurance
- Issues with various government agencies
- Immigration and Refugee matters
- Ontario Works
- Employment Law
- Residential Tenancies Act
- Canada Pension Plan/Income Security Programs
- Consumer and Debt Problems
- Advice (free and not income tested)
- Wills and Powers of Attorney
- Advocacy
- Community Organizing
- Public Legal Education and Information
- Law Reform
- Representation before Courts and Tribunals
Satellite locations (by appointment only):
Canadian Mental Health Association
20 Jarvis Street, Fort Erie
Tuesdays
Community Care of St. Catharines & Thorold
19 Albert Street West, Thorold
Wednesdays
Port Cares
92 Charlotte Street, Port Colborne
Thursdays
Lighthouse Church
241 Elmwood, Crystal Beach
Thursdays
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Community Legal Aid Clinic providing advice and/or representation in areas such as:
No services in family, criminal
- Landlord-tenant
- Consumer
- Ontario Works
- Ontario Disability
- Canada Pension Plan Disability
- Limited services offered in employment and immigration
No services in family, criminal
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Multi-service settlement and community support agency
Community Support
Winter clothing items needed; to make a donation or for more information email Michael Raymond: mraymond@mnsinfo.org
Community Support
- information and referral
- job search workshops, career counseling, public access computers
- EarlyON Child and Family Centre - see separate listing
- free walk-in legal clinic
- free dental clinics -- appointment required
- women's advocacy and supportive services
- form filling: help filling out citizenship or immigration sponsorship forms, social assistance and supportive housing applications or other documents
- settlement services
- translation/interpretation
- participates in LINC (Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada) in English, upon assessment by Achēv -- see separate entry
- practical counselling to at-risk youth as well as other youth
- Homework Club for children in grades 1-8 tutored by supervised secondary school youth
- Clinical Youth Outreach Worker (CYOW) helps "hard-to-reach" youth and their families connect with services in Peel Region; one-on-one counselling and support services to youth, focusing on immediate needs and referring to long-term support services to improve the youth's mental health and well-being
- Youth Outreach Worker (YOW) helps "hard-to-reach" youth and their families connect with services in Malton; raises youth's awareness of available community services, engages them in community programs, and strengthens partnerships among organizations that serve youth
- activities include counseling for seniors who report being the victim of abuse
- elder abuse education and training with an ethno-cultural lens
Winter clothing items needed; to make a donation or for more information email Michael Raymond: mraymond@mnsinfo.org
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Community legal clinic
- summary advice and legal information
- deals primarily with social assistance, violence issues (assault and hate crimes), mental health, immigration and refugee, worker's rights, tenant issues
- referrals
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
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Community legal clinic
- assistance with housing and tenant issues, social assistance including Ontario Works (OW), Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), Canada Pension Plan (CPP), Old Age Security (OAS), Employment Insurance (EI), immigration, low income employment issues such as employment standards and wrongful dismissal, and assistance with affidavits and commissioning of documents
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
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Unison Health and Community Services, Keele-Rogers
Office: 416-653-5400Crisis: 416-657-3622
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COVID19 -- Many services continue to be available to clients by phone (and if necessary, as determined by the Unison provider/staff, in person); call 416-653-5400 for more information
Community Health Centre
For help with Enbridge Gas bills, call 1-855-487-5327
- Legal Services: phone only, 416-653-5400 ext. 1244
- Housing Services: phone only, 416-653-5400 ext. 1306 and leave a message
- Harm Reduction: phone only, 647-999-3094
Community Health Centre
- health services, health promotion
- community services and community development
- Ontario Health Insurance NOT required for general services
- family practice including crisis pregnancy, family planning, management of chronic conditions, prenatal and postnatal care, preventative health care, seniors' health, sexual health
- individual and sexuality counselling, treatment of sexually transmitted diseases
- counselling and case management
- dietitian
- podiatry clinic
- breastfeeding clinic
- child and parenting programs, including Spanish-speaking groups
- Diabetes Education Centre
- harm reduction programs
- seniors programs
- Toronto Public Health dental clinic
- women's programs
- youth programs
- Adult Protective Service program for adults with developmental disabilities
- community kitchen
- client advocacy, crisis referral to shelters
- eviction prevention, information and referral
- housing search
- landlord outreach, negotiation with landlords
- Housing Connections Access Centre, Share the Warmth
- other Home Services -- Rent Bank and Streets to Homes Follow-up Services
For help with Enbridge Gas bills, call 1-855-487-5327
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Legal Aid Services
- free legal representation in court for low-income Francophones
- summary legal advice
- community workshops
- family advice lawyer ; notary services
- immigration and refugee law
- landlord-tenant law
- social assistance and income support law
- labour law and human rights
- criminal law
- Project for survivors of domestic violence and/or sexual assault
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Community legal clinic
- provides summary legal advice in income maintenance (CPP, OAS, EI, GAINS) workers rights, tenant rights, immigration, social assistance (OW, ODSP), tenant issues, general administration (notary, commissioner for taking oaths)
- may provide representation
- summary advice/referral in domestic violence cases
- community organizing
- community education
- law reform
- referrals
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
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1-866-482-2724
Office: 416-482-8255
Toll Free Fax: 1-866-881-2723
Toll Free TTY: 1-866-482-2728
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Office: 416-482-8255
Toll Free Fax: 1-866-881-2723
Toll Free TTY: 1-866-482-2728
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Community legal clinic
Summary Advice and Referral -- confidential advice and information related to disability issues
Summary Advice and Referral -- confidential advice and information related to disability issues
- telephone service
- limited representation in test case litigation
- representation for individuals in priority cases
- collect calls accepted
- public speaking
- law reform initiatives
- adaptive technology workstations for Internet access, Monday-Friday 10 am-4 pm
- electronic newsletter
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
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Community legal clinic
- legal advice and assistance on environmental issues -- call for details
- representation
- reports
- library
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
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COVID19 -- service by phone, no in person meetings without an appointment and limited public education activities, intake Mon, Wed, Fri 9 am-5 pm
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Community legal clinic
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Community legal clinic
- advice, representation, referrals, advocacy
- areas of law include privacy, social assistance, immigration, housing/tenant, pensions, Employment Insurance (EI), private insurance benefits, health, criminal, prison (HIV-related), human rights, substitute decision making and powers of attorney
- community legal education speakers and publications
- law reform and test case litigation
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario, AIDS Bureau (Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care), foundations and donors
- also known as HALCO
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Specialty community legal clinic
- pursues test cases, Charter and appellate litigation to address systemic issues arising from federal and provincial income security programs, and from the political, economic and social causes of poverty
- law reform
- policy development
- community development and provincial organizing
- public legal education
- no direct legal services to individuals except in relation to test and Charter cases
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
- Member of the Association of Community Legal Clinics of Ontario
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Specialty legal clinic
- works to better the housing situation of low income Ontario residents including tenants, housing cooperative members and homeless people
- no direct legal services for individuals, people requiring legal advice or representation relating to housing issues should contact their local community legal clinic, to find local clinic call Legal Aid Ontario 1-800-668-8258
- public legal education including tip sheets providing legal information on common tenant concerns available at www.acto.ca/for-tenants/tip-sheets/
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
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Community legal clinic
Childhood Arrivals Support and Advocacy (CASA) - outreach, legal representation and support for young people up to 25, who arrived in Canada and live in Ontario without immigration status
Your Way Forward - expanded and enhanced services to survivors of gender-based violence
- legal representation in many areas of law including education, criminal matters, child welfare, human rights, financial assistance or support and leaving home
- legal information and assistance to youth, professionals and community groups
- also to parents in limited circumstances
- community development and outreach
- advocacy
- seminars
- accepts collect calls
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
Childhood Arrivals Support and Advocacy (CASA) - outreach, legal representation and support for young people up to 25, who arrived in Canada and live in Ontario without immigration status
Your Way Forward - expanded and enhanced services to survivors of gender-based violence
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COVID19 -- staff working remotely, providing representation and legal advice services via phone and email
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Community legal clinic
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Community legal clinic
- representation through all levels of Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
- case consultation and training for other agencies
- funded by Legal Aid Ontario
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Community legal clinic and resource centre
- information, referrals and summary advice on housing issues from landlord's perspective
- educational tools
- law reform
- rental forms
- funded by Legal Aid
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