Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has committed to developing a multi-year, multi-faceted, province-wide racialized
communities strategy that will build upon the services and supports that LAO already has in place.
The province has put together a team to conduct an independent review of the Special Investigations Unit, the Office of the Independent Police Review Director, and the Ontario Civilian Police Commission to: make recommendations on how to enhance transparency and accountability of the police oversight bodies while preserving fundamental rights ensure the police oversight bodies […]
New approaches to child welfare are urgently needed to address the over-representation of certain groups among children in child welfare care. These approaches must be informed by good research and take full account of cultural and linguistic needs and experiences of historical and contemporary institutional racism which place children and their families at higher risk […]
For the past year, One Vision One Voice has been consulting with the African Canadian community and Children’s Aid Societies across the province to develop a Practice Framework to support better outcomes for African Canadians who are involved with the child welfare system. One Vision One Voice is a community-led project facilitated by the Ontario […]
Even before Kimberly Roach started co-leading Legal Aid Ontario’s (LAO) Racialized Communities Strategy, she saw firsthand the need for a strategy to address the needs of racialized communities.