Your legal Rights: An Introduction may 2012

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Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)

These slides provide a tour of the Your Legal Rights website at http://yourlegalrights.on.ca. Your Legal Rights is a website of free legal information for people in Ontario. A project of CLEO, Your Legal Rights is funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario.

Education

• For 40 years CLEO has provided free, reliable
and accessible information to help people
understand and exercise their legal rights.

• On key legal issues in areas such as housing,
employment, family law, social assistance,
immigration, and more.

• Available in English, French, and six
other languages.

What is Your Legal Rights?
A project of CLEO, Your Legal Rights is a website
of free legal information for people in Ontario.
This site has free, practical, and easy-to-find
legal information produced by hundreds of
organizations across Ontario.
http://yourlegalrights.on.ca

Site Features:
• Resources - Legal information covering a wide range of
legal topics, in a variety of formats, and available in
dozens of languages
• Common Questions - Questions and answers to
everyday legal problems
• Find Services - Interactive map of key legal and social
services across Ontario
• Training - Public legal education training webinars for
service providers
• News & Events - The latest headlines and community
events about the law and access to justice

Subscribe to our daily Your Legal
Rights Email Bulletin or a weekly
bulletin of legal information, a
common question of the week,
and a weekly bulletin of our
latest training webinars. For
more information or to subscribe
visit: Email Bulletins.

Content Feeds
Free and easy to add to your site, our content feeds
provide your web site with up to date content from Your
Legal Rights.

How our feeds look on other websites

• Our Latest News - Campaigns and Law Reform feed on
the Income Security Advocacy Centre website.
• Our Latest Common Questions - Human Rights feed on
the Community Advocacy and Legal Centre website
• Our Latest News - Employment and Work feed on the
Injured Workers Online website

Latest News & Events –
Campaigns and Law
Reform on the Income
Security Advocacy Centre
website at
www.incomesecurity.org

Common Questions feeds on
various legal topic pages of the
CALC website at:
www.communitylegalcentre.ca

Latest Resources feed on
the North Shore Legal
website home page at:
www.northshorelegal.ca

• Pilot project funded by the Law Foundation of
Ontario to improve access to legal information and
services for people who don’t speak English or French
or who live in rural and remote communities

• Community organizations can work with partners to
develop an innovative legal information training
project or join a province-wide community legal
education network and learning exchange

• Contact Vivien Green, Project Manager,
greenv@lao.on.ca
www.cleoconnectingcommunities.ca

Keep in touch!
Fiona MacCool
Your Legal Rights Project Manager
Tel: 416-408-4420 ext. 829
Email: fionamaccool@yourlegalrights.on.ca
Web site: http://www.yourlegalrights.on.ca
Twitter Feed: http://twitter.com/legalrightsON
CLEONet Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/yourlegalrights

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