Community Advocate Support Line (CASL)
About this resource
The Community Advocate Support Line (CASL) is a poverty law legal support service exclusively for community-based advocates in BC. CASL is staffed by one full-time lawyer and one part-time lawyer. The CASL lawyers support the work that advocates do by offering advocates legal information, legal advice, and training on various poverty law issues, including:
-welfare law (including disability assistance),
-residential tenancy and other housing issues,
-employment and employment insurance,
-Canada Pension Plan (including disability benefits),
-Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement, and
-debts, debt collection, and consumer contracts.
Advocates can contact CASL for legal advice or support about a specific case by email or phone. The CASL lawyers are also active on various PovNet lists for advocates and often provide legal support there.
-welfare law (including disability assistance),
-residential tenancy and other housing issues,
-employment and employment insurance,
-Canada Pension Plan (including disability benefits),
-Old Age Security and Guaranteed Income Supplement, and
-debts, debt collection, and consumer contracts.
Advocates can contact CASL for legal advice or support about a specific case by email or phone. The CASL lawyers are also active on various PovNet lists for advocates and often provide legal support there.
Details
Resource type
Help Lines, Human Rights, Legal Rights, Self Advocacy
Disabilities
Acquired Brain Injury, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Behaviour Disorders and Conditions (ie. ADHD), Blind / Visual Impairment, Cerebral Palsy, Deaf / Hard of Hearing, Deaf-Blind, Down Syndrome , Dual Diagnosis, Epilepsy / Seizure Disorder, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome / Spectrum Disorders , Intellectual / Developmental Disability, Learning Disorder / Disability, Mental Health , Neuromuscular Disorders, Other / I don't know, Paraplegia / Quadriplegia, Physical Disability / Mobility Impairment, Schizophrenia , Speech Impairment / Social / Communication Disorders, Spina Bifida, Substance Use/Addiction
Age
19-99
Eligibility
N/A
Location
Regions
Cariboo Chilcotin Coast, Fraser North, Fraser South, Fraser Valley, Greater Vancouver, Kootenays, North East, North West, Sunshine Coast / Squamish-Lillooet, Thompson Okanagan, Vancouver Island Central, Vancouver Island North, Vancouver Island South
Cities
Brentwood Bay, Chemainus, Cobble Hill, Colwood, Cowichan Bay, Crofton, Duncan, Esquimalt, Galiano Island, Honeymoon Bay, Ladysmith, Lake Cowichan, Langford, Mayne Island, Metchosin, Mill Bay , North Saanich, Pender Island, Port Renfrew, Saanich, Saanichton, Salt Spring Island, Saturna Island, Shawnigan Lake, Sidney, Sooke, Swartz Bay, Thetis Island, Victoria, View Royal
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