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Department of Justice Canada Funds Program for Youth in Custody or on Probation

Funding from the Department of Justice Canada’s Youth Justice Fund is helping the Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN) develop and deliver a pilot public legal education program for youth in custody or on probation. Together 180 focuses on the areas of law that most affect young people during rehabilitation and reintegration. The public legal education […]

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Cynthia Palermo – Profile of an Educator

OJEN programs and resources help me to be a better teacher.  — Cynthia Palermo. Cynthia Palermo has taught Civics and Grades 11 and 12 Law at the Dryden High School, part of the Keewatin Patricia District School Board in Northwestern Ontario, since her first day of teaching in September, 2006. Dryden High School is the […]

Call for applications: OJEN Justice Education Fellowships 2022-2023

OJEN is now accepting applications from Ontario paralegal students and law students for its Justice Education Fellowships in 2022-23. If you are a student at an Ontario college in a paralegal certificate program or an eligible law school and you have a passion for public legal education and community outreach, we encourage you to apply. Eligible schools […]

Calling all educators and students: OJEN needs to hear from you!

As OJEN celebrates the accomplishments of our first 20 years, we are at the same time looking ahead to our future. As part of our strategic planning process, we are looking for input from a wide range of people who are familiar with our work. All the information we receive will help us create relevant […]

Update on school-based programming

Ontario’s education sector continues to face incredible challenges as it struggles to provide safe classroom environments for over 2 million students, teachers and support staff. School boards are scrambling to comply with Ministry of Education directives while addressing the concerns of parents, students and staff. For educators on the front lines of the school community, […]

Help us plan our next 5 years!

As OJEN celebrates the accomplishments of our first 20 years, we are at the same time looking ahead to our future. Board and staff are engaged in a rigorous strategic planning process to determine our goals and priorities leading up to our 25th anniversary in 2027. As part of this exercise, we are looking for […]

Brampton Judge Receives Chief Justices’ Award

The Honourable Justice Nancy S. Kastner of the Ontario Court of Justice in Brampton received the Ontario Justice Education Network’s (OJEN) Chief Justices’ Award at a virtual ceremony on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. Presided over by Chief Justice Lise Maisonneuve of the Ontario Court of Justice, Chief Justice Geoffrey B. Morawetz of the Superior Court […]

NAVIGATING POLICE ENCOUNTERS TRAINING – Justice sector professionals

OJEN is offering an online training session for justice sector professionals in Ottawa on how to facilitate OJEN’s Navigating Police Encounters program.   Navigating Police Encounters is a two-session interactive justice education program that offers youth and young adults (ages 14-26) the opportunity to build their knowledge and understanding of the law governing rights and responsibilities […]

OJEN Poster Challenge 2022: Register now!

The Poster Challenge invites grade 5 students to create posters that express what they value about Canadian democracy and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It meets Grade 5 Ontario curriculum expectations in Social Studies in a fun and effective way. A selection of posters will be included in OJEN’s Art in the Courts […]

Now available: Guidelines for Better Legal Workshops webinar recording

During Access to Justice Week, October 25th to 28th, OJEN and the Public Legal Education Association of Canada (PLEAC) co-hosted a 90 minute webinar entitled Guidelines for better legal workshops: best practices for effective public legal education presentations. The session was designed for legal professionals interested in offering legal education workshops for the public.  The […]

Teachers: sign up for Défi de la Charte!

Défi de la Charte is OJEN’s new French language mock appeal program. Our original plan to begin the program on November 1st, has been changed to allow schools starting a new quadmester on November 8th to participate.  The program now begins on November 15th and teachers can sign up until December 3rd. Find more information […]

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