Please view some of the publications available on our website to download. If you would like a hard copy of any of these, please contact our office.

Bulletin- The Law Foundation Bulletin is updated 3-4 times yearly with information on projects and organizations funded by the Law Foundation, as well as other interesting articles.

Civil Legal Needs Research Report- The Law Foundation of BC commissioned this research report because, in order to make the best use of its funding and plan for the coming years, it needs to have a clear picture of the legal needs of British Columbians. This report provides this picture for the Law Foundation of BC by summarizing the key research completed in BC and other jurisdictions, considering what it shows about gaps in BC legal services, and drawing conclusions that suggest next steps.

Diversity Profile-   The Diversity Profile was first developed in 2002 in order to provide demographic information regarding the population in each region of British Columbia. The Diversity profile provides information regarding each element of the Law Foundation’s working definition of diversity, as follows:

Diversity includes age, different abilities, socio-economic level, education, ethnicity, language, family, gender, marital/relationship status, race, religion, work experience, geographic size and location, and sexual orientation.

Poverty Law Needs Assessment - As part of the Law Foundation’s Funding Strategies Review process, and in particular, in stage one of that process where community based poverty law advocacy groups were being assessed, the Law Foundation undertook to conduct a poverty law needs assessment and gap/overlap analysis.

The analysis included:

1. Defining 14 regions of the province for analysis,
2. Gathering information from a number of different sources to assess the types of legal problems that people in British Columbia needed assistance with,
3. Gathering information on services available to address those needs, and
4. Key informant interviews and focus groups were used to gather further information about needs and to validate existing information about areas of need for legal services and how these could best be addressed.

Report of Aboriginal Child Welfare Collaborative Decision-Making Models

In 2004, 2006 and 2008 the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) made grants to the Law Foundation of BC (“the Law Foundation”) totaling $3,124,000 for the purpose of funding projects which would expand the use of alternative dispute resolution processes in the area of child protection law, particularly for Aboriginal children.  The Law Foundation has funded 19 projects under the Child Welfare Initiative, 11 of which are service delivery projects and the balance of which are to train child protection mediators. 

As part of its evaluation of the projects, the Law Foundation asked each service-delivery project to describe its model for a family decision-making process.  The purpose of this report is to document the collaborative decision-making models that Aboriginal agencies have used in the Law Foundation-funded service delivery projects.