Hard of Hearing Association, Cooper Institute receive grants

The P.E.I. Hard of Hearing Association and the Cooper Institute are among the recipients of the Law Foundation of Prince Edward Island grants for 2018.

“The hard of hearing project promotes ways to improve communications with clients requiring legal services who have hearing difficulty,” said foundation chair Gary Scales.

“Funding provided to the Cooper Institute will go towards developing multi-language legal information resources for migrant workers and their employers.”

The Foundation also granted more than $165,000 this year to support P.E.I.’s provincial law library services and legal information resources, the Community Legal Information Association, the bar admissions program and legal education scholarships.

Projects completed in 2017 included a parenting coordination and family arbitration pilot project and the development of a family violence prevention education video geared to newcomers.

The Foundation encourages innovative ideas that advance legal knowledge and promote access to justice on P.E.I.

For more information on the work of the Law Foundation of P.E.I., visit lawfoundationpei. ca, or contact executive director Sheila Lund MacDonald at slm@ lawfoundationpei.ca, or 902-6201763.