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CLEO's tools to help your communities
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This month we want to share some of the 68 tools we've produced to help your clients and communities. Understanding laws and the court process is difficult. And today, more people are trying to resolve their legal problems on their own, because hiring a lawyer or paralegal is expensive.
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We hope that our tools, available in English and French, can help you support the legal needs of your community members.
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CLEO Connect also offers training webinars to help you become more confident in finding reliable legal information to respond to your clients' questions. Subscribe to CLEO Connect to learn more.
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And, you can use CLEO's Guided Pathways to help your clients complete some court forms and documents. The pathways are online interviews that ask questions and create legal documents based on the answers. The pathways are free to use. |
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Shared housing tool
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High rents have forced many people to live with others in a variety of housing arrangements. It's challenging for people to figure out their rights and responsibilities.
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Our recently updated shared housing tool is useful for people who live with roommates. It can help them figure out what laws might apply to them, such as: |
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Once a person knows the laws that might apply to their situation, they can figure out their options and next steps.
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Tool for setting a date in criminal court
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After a person is charged with a crime, they must go to court regularly to update the judge about their case. This continues until their charges are resolved or a trial date is set.
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Based on where they are in the court process, this tool can help your client decide:
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- how much time to ask for before their next court date, and
- what to say in court.
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Tip sheets for wills and powers of attorney
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We have 3 easy-to-use tip sheets that your clients can use to gather the information they need to make: |
- a Power of Attorney for Personal Care
- a Continuing Power of Attorney for Property
- a will
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Other tools
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We also have:
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- short videos on various topics in family, employment, housing, and criminal law that may help your clients who are visual learners
- a letter writing tool that can help your French-speaking clients access their right to have their court matter heard in French
- drawings that show what family and criminal courtrooms look like to help your clients feel more prepared when they go to an in-person hearing
- a letter writing tool that can help your client make a consumer complaint to a business
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Tools for tenants
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If you support tenants, we have:
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- letter writing tools to ask to sublet or assign a lease, or move back in after major work to a rental unit
- checklists to find out how to fight an eviction notice from a landlord
- a tenant repair request form to ask a landlord to fix a problem in the rental unit
- a chart that explains the rules when sending documents for a Landlord and Tenant Board hearing
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Tools to help with family law issues
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If you support people dealing with family law problems, we have:
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- templates to create a safety plan for your clients and their children
- flowcharts that show the steps in a family law case
- flowcharts that show the child protection process
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Tools to help with OW and ODSP issues
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If you support people who are on income assistance, we have:
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- letter writing tools to ask for an internal review of a decision to deny OW or ODSP benefits
- flowcharts that show the process for:
- making a claim for OW and ODSP
- appealing a claim for OW and ODSP
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Tools for refugees
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If you support people who have made a refugee claim, we have:
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- flowcharts that show the process for making a refugee claim inside and outside Canada
- tip sheets to help fill out Basis of Claim forms
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Tools related to criminal charges
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If you support people dealing with a criminal charge, we have:
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- a chart that explains the differences between summary, indictable, and hybrid offences
- flowcharts that show:
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Tools for employment issues
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If you support people dealing with employment problems, we have:
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- a letter writing tool to ask for a record of employment
- a chart that explains leaves and benefits for new and expecting parents
- a chart that explains Employment Insurance benefits
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Let us know what you think
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If you have suggestions on how we can improve any of our tools or for new ones we might create, please let us know. |
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