Our work to establish enhanced, expanded trauma-informed family law legal aid services through Legal Aid BC builds on the outcomes of our charter challenge on access to legal aid, which ended in February 2024 with a collaborative agreement and a three-year implementation period. This project supports the Centre for Family Equity's work to support and impact the development and implementation of BC’s new trauma-informed family law legal aid clinic model.

Informed by the collaborative LABC and CFE engagement with 71 survivors and hundreds of stakeholders across the province regarding the development of the clinic model and the results shared in the Family Law Legal Aid Engagement Safe, Heard, Protected: What We Heard Report, our initiative focuses on three core areas:

• Implementing best practices in trauma-informed legal aid in BC, particularly in the new clinic model.
• Fostering collaboration and ongoing, supported input across the legal and non-profit sectors to shape and inform the implementation of the new clinic model.
• Ensuring survivor perspectives help shape and evaluate the new services.