CLSD Outreach Calendar  (click here to see outreach calendar for NRCLC and Legal Aid)  

Mirrung Ngu Wanjarri (Aboriginal Women Making Changes)

Mirrung has been a funded project since June 2000. The project is to raise awareness about family violence in Aboriginal communities by raising self awareness and self-confidence in Aboriginal women and to work on strategies for improving outcomes for families experiencing violence. Nancy Walke is the poject worker. Nancy works in partnership with Aboriginal communities and other service providers. Mirrung is currently funded by the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.

Aboriginal Legal Access Program

The Aboriginal Legal Access Program has been extended until June 2014 and will be undertaking the following tasks:

• plan and develop formal legal needs consultation process with five Bundjalung communities, commence review of and update the 1998 Mabourah Dubay Access to Law Report's findings and track the current state of Bundjalung communitie's access to the law and to legal resources
•  provide putreach services to two Bundjalung communities for a half a day per week

Animal Law & Education Project

 The Northern Rivers Animal Law & Education Project is a referral service for pro bono assistance. It assists with development of law and policy reforms to better protect animals. The project is to increase community awareness of legal avenues available to protect animals, raise awareness and educate the public about animal welfare legal issues. For full details visit the Animal Law & Education Project tab.

Lismore Family Relationships Centre/NRCLC Legal Assistance Partnership

  The NRCLC is the legal assistance pertner for clients of the Lismore Family Relationships Centre who need family law advice about children's matters. Free family law advice is provided to clients referred by the FRC to the solicitor employed by this project.

In certain circumstances, where the relevant family dispute resolution practioner who is assisting parents who have seperated cosiders that a legally assisted family dispute resoution is appropriate, the soliitor partipates in the family dispute resolution providing advice to one of the parents. The project partners can arrange for the other parent to also be represented by a solicitor from another project.

Funding for the project is provided by the Australian Government Attornery-General's Department.