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When you start looking at the world through the eyes of a public legal educator, you start to see misinformation and misunderstanding everywhere. Sometimes you’re out running a PLE program and a participant starts talking about a legal issue where they have the basic facts of the law completely wrong. Sometimes you’re browsing your Facebook […]
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“A community is like a typewriter when one piece is off or stuck it doesn’t work…” 11 year old Sparroways Community Participant No community is perfect, every community has its assets and its flaws. There are things that work and things that don’t. Have you ever looked around your community and thought to yourself, “This […]
Recently, I facilitated the culminating session of a six week, advocacy-based program with the residents of Humewood House Sheppard, a resource centre for young pregnant and parenting women. In this program, we worked towards applying some of the skills that professional advocates use, in order to challenge negative stereotypes and public perceptions of young mothers. […]
This video features youth from several GTA neighbourhoods discussing their views on how the justice system impacts their own lives and their communities. It also includes photographs taken in an OJEN/ROEJ project with Toronto Community Housing – Youth Safety Ambassadors. Funding for the video has been provided through the Vital Ideas Fund at the Toronto […]