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Racialized Communities Strategy consultation 2017/18 closed

Overview

Since 2016, Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has been meeting with legal aid applicants and clients, lawyers, community legal clinics and other community agencies to talk about issues faced by racialized communities when trying to get the legal services they need.

Key documents

  • Racialized Communities Strategy Consultation Summary
    Summary paper / October 2018 / PDF
  • Development of a Racialized Communities Strategy
    Consultation paper / July 2017 / HTML

Consultation questions

  • Arabic
    Handout / November 2017
  • English
    Handout / October 2017
  • Farsi
    Handout / November 2017
  • French
    Handout / October 2017
  • Hindi
    Handout / October 2017
  • Korean
    Handout / October 2017
  • Punjabi
    Handout / January 2018
  • Simplifies Chinese (SCH) (Mandarin)
    Handout / October 2017
  • Somali
    Handout / October 2017
  • Spanish
    Handout / January 2018
  • Tagalog
    Handout / October 2017
  • Tamil
    Handout / November 2017
  • Traditional Chinese (TCH) (Cantonese)
    Handout / October 2017
  • Urdu
    Handout / January 2018

Consultation Date

Starts: October 1, 2017 at 12:00am

Ends: April 1, 2018 at 12:00am

Contact Details

rcs@lao.on.ca

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Documents

Development of a Racialized Communities Strategy

Table of contents Introduction What is Legal Aid Ontario? Key Terms and Concepts: Race, Racialization, Racial Hierarchy and Proposed Scope for the Racialized Communities Strategy Key Environmental Factors Key Themes from Early Engagement Sessions Next Steps Key Consultation Themes and Questions Proposed Appendix A: List of Organizations Consulted Appendix B: Concerns/ Issues Raised by Organizations…

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