
Category: Project Final Reports
Grant product final reports – unsure why there are two categories for grants.

Inner Sydney Voice This report describes a project that was taken to produce a whiteboard animation to inform residents in Waterloo (particularly CALD members of the community and those who...

Artists in the black animations for TV
Arts Law Centre of Australia This report describes a small project in which an existing series of animations about artists’ rights for Indigenous artists were edited for screening on SBS...

My Voice, My Ability, My Rights
https://www.chyfm.org.au/ This report details the need that was identified for this project and how this community broadcaster worked with students from a special education unit at a local school to...

Mental Health Information Referral and Court Peer Support Program
Manning Valley Neighbourhood Services This report describes the need for a court support service at Taree local court for clients with mental health concerns and how this project was developed...

Financial Rights Online Self-Help Tools
Financial Rights Legal Centre This report details the development, production, dissemination and evaluation of this tool, which assists reasonably capable users and community workers to generate professional letters for use...

Get to know your AVO
Intellectual Disability Rights Service This report describes the work that IDRS did to develop a video about AVOs for people with an intellectual disability. The service had identified a gap...

REACH OUT: Access to civil law services for remote residents on the Mid North Coast
The aim of this project was to trial the delivery of legal services using video-conferencing facilities for residents living in remote areas of the Mid North Coast. The target groups...

Training for sign language interpreters working in courts
The Deaf Society of NSW This report describes a project in which Auslan interpreters lacking experience and confidence in working in Court/legal settings were offered the opportunity to attend a...

Talking FactSheets
Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT This report describes the development of a series of short films made in local communities that provide legal information in an entertaining way. The topics and...

Residential Parks Law Education Project
Tenants’ Union of NSW This project describes the a very targeted community legal education program for residents in land lease communities, educating those residents about the new Residential (Land Lease)...

Giving Evidence In Care Proceedings in Children’s Court
Association of Children’s Welfare Agencies (ACWA) This report describes the gap that was identified in practical resources to assist workers in out of home care who are required to give...

Counsellors and Subpoenas in Family Law Issues Paper
Women's Legal Service NSW This report describes the work done by Women’s Legal Service NSW to develop a discussion paper which examines the current climate of the increased focus on...

Tenants’ rights factsheets in languages other than English
Tenants' Union of NSW This report details the process that Tenants' Union NSW followed to expand their tenants rights factsheet series. The project came about after the first series proved...

Safe at school? Exploring safety and harm of students with cognitive disability in and around school
Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University, Lismore This report details the research undertaken by Dr Sally Robinson and Dominique McGovern into the current legal protections available...

Making sense website
Intellectual Disability Rights ServiceThis report is about the development of the Making Sense website, a resource for those assisting parents with intellectual disability involved in the child care and protection...

Beyond barbed wire
Barnardos Western NSWThis report is an evaluation of Beyond Barbed Wire, a pilot program run in Wellington by Barnardos Western NSW . The aim of the pilot was to reduce...

Video on the Australian legal system
Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC), State Library of NSW This report describes the process undertaken by LIAC to work with a film-maker to develop the scripts for the two videos,...

South Coast volunteer court support program
Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre This report describes the steps this CLC took to respond to a locally identified need for assistance at Nowra local court for general court users. It...

Pro bono legal assistance to recently arrived migrants – a pilot study
Justice Connect (formerly PILCH NSW)This report is about the establishment of Migrant Outreach Services: Advice, Information and Community Education (MOSAIC) a multi-faceted project that aims to improve access to justice...

Protecting people with dementia from financial abuse
Alzheimer's Australia NSW This report sets out the need for this work that the applicant identified through their consumer advisory groups, the process for undertaking the research, the major findings...

LGBTIQ safe relationships awareness project
Inner City Legal Centre This report describes the development, delivery and evaluation of the LGBTIQ safe relationships awareness project which was run by Inner City Legal Centre in Sydney. Aimed...

Judicial directions and juror sleuthing: a case study approach
Faculty of Law, University of New South WalesThis report sets out the genesis of this research, the process undertaken, the distribution of the research report and the author’s conclusion and...

Domestic violence plays in community languages
Immigrant Women's Speakout Association (IWSA) This report describes the development of three short plays produced for radio in nine languages that provide information about domestic violence: obtaining an apprehended domestic...

Domestic violence reporting in CALD communities
Fairfield City Council This report describes the extensive consultation that took place in the development of this project, both with community members and local domestic violence service providers, the development...

Women’s access to legal protection from domestic violence
Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney This report sets out the research that was undertaken on women's lived experience of participating in the civil legal system to...

Tenancy law in NSW: A practical guide
Tenants' Union of NSW This report discusses the process for developing, testing, launching and marketing this plain language resource for workers and community members on tenancy law in NSW. It...

Social Security regional CLE & outreach clinic
Welfare Rights Centre This report describes how the need for this project was identified, how it was developed and implemented, and the lessons learned about what works and what doesn’t...

Information update for asylum seekers
Refugee Advice & Casework Service (RACS) This report describes the writing, publishing, promotion and distribution of a range of seven factsheets written for asylum seekers about the Australian Immigration process,...

Improving access to justice for the Mandaean community
South West Sydney Legal Centre This report describes the development and presentation of ten community legal education sessions that were delivered in Arabic to the Mandaean community living and working...

Hunter outreach legal clinics – pilot scheme (Dungog & Raymond Terrace)
Hunter Community Legal Centre This report describes the trial of two outreach clinics run by Hunter Community Legal Centre in the Dungog and Raymond Terrace areas of NSW. Although initially...

Demystifying the criminal justice process for Indigenous women who are victims of domestic or family violence
Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre This report details the development of a range of plain language resources and implementation of ten community legal information sessions with Indigenous women living in the...

SWOP web resource project
Sex Workers Outreach Project (SWOP)/AIDS Council of NSW (ACON) This report describes the development of this online legal resource for sex workers, its promotion, how it was evaluated and the findings...

Evaluation of Cancer Council legal referral service
Cancer Council NSW This report describes the development of an evaluation of the Cancer Council’s Legal Referral Service, its implementation, the challenges of surveying and interviewing both cancer patients and...

Family fundamentals project
Child Abuse Prevention Service (CAPS) This report details the implementation of a series of seminars on family law, child protection and referral information for Arabic and Amharic speaking women in...

Domestic violence and renting
Hawkesbury Nepean Community Legal Centre This report describes the development and distribution of the plain language booklet, Domestic Violence and Renting. Although the booklet was distributed widely and very well...

Artists in the black on air
This was a 2010-2012 project funded by a grant from the Law and Justice Foundation of NSW. This report describes the production and distribution of a CD containing a series...

Under the law
Fairfield City Council This report describes the development of this DVD about the law in English and three African languages, the various stages of producing a DVD and the distribution...

Knowledge of and attitudes towards the legal rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people for appropriate end of life care
ASLaRC Aged Care Services Unit, Southern Cross University This report describes a two part project, which first undertook a survey of same sex people about their knowledge and experience of,...
