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Program:
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Medical Legal Partnership for Children
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Service Description:
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Free legal advice, brief services such as phone calls, drafting letters or notarizing documents and possible referrals to local pro bono law firms and legal aid clinics- areas of law include -- child welfare, consent/capacity, criminal, education, employment, family, health care access, housing, immigration, social/income assistance (Ontario Works, assistance for children with severe disabilities, subsidized daycare, OSAP) and tax (Canada Child Benefit, disability tax credits/benefits)
- partnership with hospital
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Application:
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Referral from clinician (doctor, nurse or social worker) required
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Eligibility / Target Population:
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Low income families of children being treated at
- Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kinds)
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO)
- Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
- Children's Hospital London Health Sciences Centre
- McMaster Children's Hospital
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