PLE Education Opportunities
Are you a Public Legal Education (PLE) practitioner or intermediary? Find out here about education opportunities that are meant for you.
British Columbia
Legal Services Society (LSS) workshops and conferences are designed for community workers and not the general public. The intention is to reach out to intermediaries who will pass the information on to their clients. Workshops are offered throughout the province on legal aid services and resources. LSS also organizes multi-day conferences for community workers around BC.
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Canada / Federal
Just a Click Away is an initiative to enhance how technology can be used to deliver legal education and information to the public in Canada. The initiative features three stages: a report discussing emerging trends in how social media and web 2.0 technologies can be used to provide legal education and information; a series of webinars exploring different models to provide access online to public legal education and information; and a national conference on technology and public legal education.
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This webcast was one of the plenary sessions at the 2008 Learn, Grow, Connect conference presented by Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. In the session panellists describe how public legal education can empower disadvantaged and racialized communities. Windows Media and RealMedia versions of the presentation are available.
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The Public Legal Education Association of Canada (PLEAC) provides a forum for public legal education practitioners to connect with key people, share information and effective practices and collaborate around matters of common interest. Check out this section of their website to learn more about their annual conference and other meetings and events.
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Ontario
CLEO is partnering with community organizations to deliver public legal education workshops online. These webinars are aimed at community workers and advocates who work with low-income and disadvantaged communities in Ontario. These public legal education webinars are easy to take part in. Participants only need a telephone and a computer with an Internet connection. They are delivered through a telephone conference call integrated with a web meeting that lets participants hear the presentation, look at PowerPoint slides, browse web sites together, and ask questions using live chat. The webinars are also recorded so that they can be accessed on the Your Legal Rights website on an ongoing basis.
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Québec
At the crossroads of law and communications, Éducaloi has developed a recognized expertise in communicating legal information to members of the public and to specific groups. Éducaloi can help your organization develop communication tools that are effective and easy to understand.
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