Project Legal Aid Lifeline is a new project at the CFE that continues the Centre for Family Equity's long-term work to establish abundant, quality legal aid in BC for low-income survivors of family violence and all who need to access it in the province.

Project Legal Aid Lifeline, a three-year project funded by the Law Foundation of BC, creates two engagement networks; one of survivors in need of legal aid, and the second of frontline legal aid support sector entities to ensure robust community input into legal aid services in BC. The project also undertakes research on law reform and trauma-informed service delivery to inform our evolving work in this area.

Our new Survivors Shaping Services network will be shaped and led by a group of six Parent Connectors with lived-experience of legal aid, BC's family law system, and family violence. This new network will carry out broader engagement among survivors in need of legal aid to gather input on the user-experience and provide a forum for engagement to ensure the user-experience is heard and impacts service developments and future growth. 

Please note that these leadership roles are for those who do not yet have paid leadership roles with the CFE. These roles are not available to those who already have Committee or Peer Lead roles with the Lone Mothers' Economic Inclusion project and the K-12 Without Racism Project. 

The CFE is hiring six Parent Connectors for a six month role. Deadline to apply is January 26th, 2026. 

Read the full Parent Connector Role Description here. 

Fill in our expression of interest form directly here.