Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey visited with CLEO's staff in November to express his appreciation for our work on the Guided Pathways and more. These direct-to-public, digital tools help people complete legal documents and court forms. The announced doubling of funding for Guided Pathways from the Ministry means that CLEO will expand its pathways to help more Ontarians seek legal protection from abuse and family violence, and to navigate Small Claims Court and family court.

More than 60 of our clinic colleagues joined CLEO to launch Trainers' Guides for community legal clinics shortly before the holidays. CLEO collaborated with clinic experts to create a series of guides that include instructions for online and in-person training, and easy-to-customize activity handouts, flyers, agendas, and evaluation forms. The customized materials can be used to train workers at local community organizations to help them to help their clients with legal problems. The first guides are about evictions, youth rights, workers' rights, and powers of attorney. More guides are being developed in 2022.

Community workers, legal professionals, researchers, and more attended sessions during Access to Justice Week events in October. More than 100 of them attended CLEO's panel discussion, Justice on the Ground, with four frontline community worker panelists from across Ontario. One participant called it, "Real life ideas on how to promote access to justice."