Seeking information in a specific legal area? Can't afford a lawyer? Want to know where to go to find more information? The ACLC provides access to material that will help you to understand and exercise your legal rights.
Learn how the ACLC's African Canadian Youth Justice Program serves African Canadian youth involved in the justice system while providing community supports.
The ACLC supports the National African Canadian Initiative on Full Participation and Capacity Building.
Providing legal education for professional legal practitioners and the lay public is a key activity of the ACLC. The ACLC effects this educational mandate through:
The ACLC also undertakes public legal education and various community development projects. These include speaking engagements at high schools and youth programs such as outreach workshops targeted at Black youth.
Much of the educational focus of the ACLC concerns the elimination of anti-Black racism.
In fulfilling its mandate to provide public legal education and to disseminate information or materials relating to racial discrimination in Canada, the ACLC maintains a resource centre open to lawyers, individual community members, and organizations. The resource centre has an extensive and specialized collection of legal and other materials relating to race and the law, critical race theory, and equality jurisprudence.
To find out how to gain access to the resource centre, contact the ACLC at 416.214.4747 or 1.888.377.0033.