What is community and systemic advocacy?

We consider this to be our community development and law reform work.
 

At the legal clinic, our community development mandate includes the following activities:

•  outreach

•  developing and distributing legal education materials

•  providing speakers to groups and classes

•  organizing workshops and conferences

•  popular education

•  networking and building strong relationships with community organizations

•  community development and capacity-building

•  community organizing

Please visit our Community Development page to learn more about our current projects.

Our law reform mandate also includes a broad range of activities as follows:

•  creating awareness about the need for law reform and systemic injustice

•  working with groups on law reform projects

•  meeting and working with government departments to improve their service
   delivery to poor and disadvantaged groups

•  writing to and meeting with politicians at the municipal, provincial and
   federal levels of government

•  linking our clients and community to law reform initiatives in other communities

•  preparing briefs and submissions to government bodies

•  appellate work and test case litigation

We advocate for positive changes to laws affecting people living on a low income in our community.  Please go to our Law Reform page for links on current law reform projects that our clinic as well as others are currently involved in and to see what you can do to help.