Legal Resources
Resources for Albertans
Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta (CPLEA)
The Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta (CPLEA) is a public legal education organization dedicated to making information about the law available in readable and understandable language for Albertans. Through a variety of approaches (web, print, presentations, and answering questions) they help educate the public to enable them to make better decisions about many aspects of their daily lives.
- Self-Directed Learning
- Workshops & Webinars
- Justice Navigator Training
Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta (CPLEA)
If you’ve been wronged at work, you’ve got rights.
The Workers’ Resource Centre helps Alberta workers understand their rights, access benefits, and file complaints and appeals with employment-related agencies, such as Employment Standards, Employment Insurance (EI), the Alberta Human Rights Commission, Canada Pension Plan – Disability (CPP-D), and Alberta Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH). We support workers experiencing job loss, lost wages, workplace discrimination, injury, illness and disability, and provide assistance to ensure workers’ basic needs are met. Our services are free of charge to Alberta workers.
- Casework Program
- Public Legal Education
- Income and Social Supports Program
BearPaw
They produce and distribute free multimedia resources about the law for Indigenous People, made by Indigenous People, in Alberta.
- Natural Law
- Missing and Murdered Indigenous People
- Children and Youth Justice
- Government I.D. & Voting
- Lateral Violence
- And more
Legal Aid Alberta
As a publicly funded, non-profit organization, we provide affordable legal services in family law, domestic violence, child welfare, immigration, and youth and adult criminal defence.
- Adult Criminal Law
- Youth Criminal Law
- Family Law
- Immigration and Refugee Law
- Family Violence Matters
- And more
Distress Centre Calgary
The Distress Centre Calgary (DCC) provides a variety of services, including 24-hour crisis support, professional counselling, youth peer support, and navigation and referrals through 211 and our programs at SORCe—all at no cost.
- 24-Hour Crisis Support
- Crisis Counselling
- 211
- Coordinated Entry
- 988 Suicide Crisis Helpline
Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta (CPLEA)
211 is an essential service that helps Albertans find the right resource or service for whatever issue they need help with, at the right time. 211 is available 24/7 by phone, text and chat. The service is free, confidential and available in over 170 languages over the phone.
On a national level, 211 connects people to the right information and services, strengthens Canada’s health and human services, and helps Canadians to become more engaged with their communities.
- Gender-based violence
- 211 Alberta Data
- Alberta Wildfires
- And more
Other Resources and Community Partners
Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
Edmonton Community Legal Centre https://www.eclc.ca/
Central Alberta Community Legal Clinic https://communitylegalclinic.net/
Lethbridge Legal Guidance
Welcome To Lethbridge Legal Guidance
Alberta Courts https://www.albertacourts.ca/
Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) https://www.alberta.ca/aish
Family Violence https://www.alberta.ca/family-violence
Student Legal Services
ADAP TRANSITION GUIDE
What Existing AISH Recipients
Need to Know