Three Areas of Law Impacting Your Student Outcomes (SLI 2021)

Many areas of law intersect with and impact a young person’s access to, and pathway through, our education systems. In this session Justice for Children and Youth, Ontario’s specialty child rights legal clinic, will explore three such intersections - immigration law for young people with no or precarious immigration status, special education systems and their legal framework, and youth criminal justice.
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0:00 - Beginning of webinar
1:20 - Land acknowledgment
2:26 - Panel introduction
5:39 - Introduction and outline
8:10 - Justice for Children and Youth
10:03 - Childhood Arrivals Support & Advocacy Program (CASA)
11:21 - Immigration Refugee Protection Act
14:02 - Education Act
16:00 - Intersection between IRPA and Education Act
22:00 - What is a justice center?
24:27 - Justice center team
27:42 - Legal processes within justice center
29:58 - Intersection of criminal law and education
31:26 - Education advocate
33:51 - Enhancing Access to Special Education program (EASE)
37:52 - Journey through special education
38:39 - Identifying the need for special education
40:55 - Challenges
43:47 - Next steps
47:04 - Case study
54:00 - How are young people without status reached without outing them?
55:47 - Justice center expansion and continuation plans
57:02 - Resources for supporting EASE
58:47 - Webinars for students
OJEN offers special thanks to the Law Foundation of Ontario, whose funding made this webinar series and so many other crucial projects possible.