Transforming Our Future
“I learned that legal strategies are accessible to communities and that they can be learned.”
Upcoming Workshops
About Transforming Our Future
What participants have said about Transforming Our Future
Upcoming Workshops
Transforming Our Future workshop scheduled for Victoria!
When: June 16th & 17th, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Where: BCGEU Victoria Office, 2994 Douglas Street Victoria
Cost: $100 per participant - subsidies available upon request
To register please download a registration form and fax it to West Coast LEAF at (604) 684-1543 or contact Deanna Ogle at 1-866-737-7716 ext. 114.
Transforming Our Future, is a two-day practical public legal education course designed for activists, advocates, and community service providers to learn about the Canadian justice system, human rights law, equality rights, and how to develop legal strategies to address the impact of systemic discrimination.
This workshop is aimed to empower community service providers by providing tools for identifying systemic discrimination, assessing legal avenues for change, and developing strategies meaningful to their communities. Over the two days participants will examine sources of equality law in Canada, and critically examine concepts of equality and systemic discrimination.
To download and print our brochure please go here.
Transforming Our Future is a practical public legal education course designed for activists, advocates, and community service providers to learn about human rights law, equality rights, and how to develop legal strategies to address the impact of systemic discrimination.
Systemic discrimination occurs in many ways and in many contexts. For non-lawyers (and often lawyers as well!) identifying systemic discrimination and seeking change through legal rights is a daunting task. At the same time, West Coast LEAF cannot do its job to address systemic discrimination in the law without the expertise of community advocates and frontline workers.
Transforming Our Future is a two-day workshop designed to address these two realities. Many issues facing the individuals that seek out the help of community service organizations reflect the impact of systemic discrimination such as racism, sexism, ablism and homophobia. Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms promised Canadians something different; it promised that the governments of Canada would not exacerbate historical patterns of discrimination, that the legislation and policies of the majority would work to eradicate the experience of inequality, not add to it.
Transforming Our Future, taught by lawyers trained and expert in equality rights and the work of LEAF and West Coast LEAF, helps non-lawyers identify systemic discrimination and build concrete legal strategies to address it. Combining the expertise of participants with the history and experience of LEAF, Transforming Our Future creates the environment to imagine something different.
Course fee is $100 per participant. Please contact us for information on childcare and other subsidies that are available.
To request a session of Transforming Our Future for your organization, or to find out when and where it will next be offered, please fill out the Request Information form or call Deanna Ogle, Education Manager at 604-684-8772 ext. 114 (toll free at 1-866-737-7716).
If you are a Law Foundation funded advocate, course fees can be a part of your professional development benefits. Please contact the Law Foundation of BC for more information.
Here is what participants have said about Transforming Our Future:
“I’ve worked in the Human Rights field for more than 25 years and the materials used in Transforming Our Future are the best I’ve seen.”
“What I liked best about these sessions was the interactive approach, the ability to look at and engage with a particular case.”
“The most important idea I learned is that there are different types of legal strategies and their value/limitations.”
“The facilitator was excellent.”
“The workshop was interactive and built around the skill of the participants while providing comprehensive information so that everyone had an opportunity to learn regardless of individual knowledge.”
“I learned that legal strategies are accessible to communities and that they can be learned.”
