Projects and Initiatives

The Neighbourhood Organization (TNO) and the Black Legal Action Centre are partnered in the Worker Support Services (WSS) project. BLAC’s Staff Lawyer is providing legal information workshops to temporary foreign workers across Ontario.  This new program provides support to temporary foreign workers in partnership with agencies across Ontario by: Learn

In July 2022, BLAC received funding through Canada’s Justice Partnership and Innovation Program (JPIP) for a four-year project called Combatting Anti-Black Racism through Litigation and System Navigation (the “Project”). LITIGATION  In the project’s first two years, BLAC will aim to provide legal professionals with the information, research, templates, and expert reports they

BLAC is proud to act the organizational mentor for the Collective of Child Welfare Survivors. The Collective of Child Welfare Survivors (CCWS) is a grassroots organization that provides various support for child welfare survivors between the ages 15-25 years old, particularly Black, Indigenous, and racialized individuals as well as their families. CCWS

Our System, Our Children, Our Responsibility: A Campaign Against the Deportation of Child Welfare Survivors is a coalition steered by BLAC that seeks to end the deportations of child welfare survivors and to address the related immigration issues. We demand that the government: 1. Halt all the deportations of child welfare

As a member of the Fresh Start Coalition, BLAC is working alongside 85+ other civil society organizations to change the law so people can move beyond their old criminal records. We are advocating for the federal government  change Canada’s record suspension system and revamp the way Canada deals with old criminal records. The coalition

Alongside Colour of Poverty – Colour of Change (COP-COC) and others, BLAC made a joint submission on the fifth and sixth periodic reports of Canada under the Convention on the Rights of the Child.  It focuses on issues facing racialized communities, immigrants, refugees and migrants in Canada. In consultation and continued solidarity with organizations

BLAC, the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) and the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) urge Parliament to: Read our full submissions here or a summary of our submissions here.