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1. Cop This!
CLC/Agency: Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission
Contact Person: Melanie Robinson
Jurisdiction: NT

When dealing with police it is important to know your rights. This package of resources includes a booklet, DVD and learning sequence which fits in with the NT Curriculum Framework for schools

2. Expect Respect
CLC/Agency: South East Community Legal Service
Contact Person: Dianne Altus
Jurisdiction: SA

We brought the Legal Services Commission drama group to our region to perform 'Expect Respect' at schools in our region

3. Family Law Hypothetical
CLC/Agency: Shoalcoast Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Katie Lahodny
Jurisdiction: NSW Commonwealth

This scenario was designed for a Family Law Pathways training session focusing on a hypothetical family and how their issues are dealt with by various agencies involved.

4. Human Rights are Aussie Rules
CLC/Agency: Eastern Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Tanja Kovac
Jurisdiction: VIC Commonwealth

A schools-based education program that uses drama, video and the internet to teach children about human rights through principles of fair play and good sportsmanship. When children compare the rules of fair play in life to the rules on the sports field, concepts such as freedom, respect, equality and dignity become very easy to relate to, rather than just abstract ideas.

5. Interactive workshop for young people
CLC/Agency: Macquarie Legal Centre
Contact Person: Bridget Kennedy
Jurisdiction: NSW Commonwealth

An interactive workshop dealing with legal issues affecting young people. Actors engage young people and educate them on their rights and responsibilities around drink driving, bullying, stealing and police arrest etc

6. Kill The Possum
CLC/Agency: Broadmeadows Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Flora Culpan
Jurisdiction: VIC

Kill the Possum, a novel written by James Moloney, is currently listed as a Year 9 textbook and is being studied by the students at Roxburgh College. It deals with the complex issues of family violence.

Aim BCLS and the Broadmeadows Magistrates' Court will work with the Year 9 English Co-ordinator to develop a series of workshops using the novel Kill the Possum. The workshops will explore the text more deeply and discuss the issues of family violence, its impact on children and the legal system.

The project also uses arts, drama and video. 

Students will complete an application form for an Intervention Order using the evidence in the novel.

A mock trial will be developed an...

7. Law Week 2011 in Bendigo
CLC/Agency: Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Charlotte Powell
Jurisdiction: VIC

The CLC and other local legal services (Consumer Affairs Victoria, Sherriff's, Police, Financial counsellors, Legal Aid) present and act in a skit that dramatises the pitfalls facing young people about buying and driving a car

8. Law Week 2011 in Geelong
CLC/Agency: Barwon Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Jillian Chapman

The Service ran a series of CLE events during Law Week 2011, including a community BBQ, Wills and Neighbourhood Disputes sessions and a very popular 'Law for Community Workers' session with participants enjoying the variety of topics/activities presented on the day including Eastern Community Legal Centre's 'Legal Lingo Bingo!'

PDF 9. Legal Lingo Bingo
CLC/Agency: Eastern Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Amy Johnstone
Jurisdiction: VIC Commonwealth

This interactive game explores a range of common legal issues through a variation of the traditional bingo format. Players match picture squares to their playing sheet while the facilitator explains each one, giving examples of problems that could arise and services available (see example playing sheet attached).

As with the traditional format, a player matching five squares in a row calls ‘Legal Lingo Bingo!’ and wins a small prize.

ECLC has run Legal Lingo Bingo at a range of recent CLE sessions including English as a Second Language classes, Indigenous communities, groups of young people and even our Centre AGM.

In meeting the needs of various communities, the contents of the playing sheet has been ...

10. Legal Theatre
CLC/Agency: Illawarra Legal Centre
Contact Person: Sharon Callaghan
Jurisdiction: NSW Commonwealth

Performances about legal issues for people with low literacy levels and/or a tradition of story telling as a way of passing on information

11. Mock Court and Tribunal Hearings
CLC/Agency: Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Steve Womersley
Jurisdiction: VIC

A series of mock court and tribunal hearings at Bendigo Courts as part of Law Week 2010

12. Mock Court Plea for Sexting Offences
CLC/Agency: Gippsland Community Legal Service
Contact Person: Letitia Naidu
Jurisdiction: VIC

Mock court plea in Children's Court for a 16-year-old charged with multiple sexting offences. Partnership with the local Children's Court (Registrar and Magistrate), Police Prosecutors and Victoria Legal Aid. Plea and 'sentence' is followed by a facilitated discussion by Gippsland Community Legal Service on the consequences of criminal records, sex offender register, employment and travel.

13. Sex, young people and the law (Law Week)
CLC/Agency: Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Charlotte Powell
Jurisdiction: VIC

Free interactive session for young people: understanding their legal rights and responsibilities. A Q&A session for Bendigo students featuring a panel of solicitors / advocates, counsellors and sexual health workers. Students' questions will guide the lively discussion and debate on a range of issues such as consent (and the legal age of consent), teenage pregnancy, sexting, pornography, sexual assault, sexuality, gender and identity and contraception.

Source: Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre

PDF 14. Space Invaders
CLC/Agency: Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre
Contact Person: Tamar Hopkins
Jurisdiction: VIC

Space Invaders is a new legal education project that uses theatre as an educational tool for young people on the topic of police powers and young people’s rights. A collaboration between Western Edge Youth Arts, Victoria Legal Aid and Flemington Kensignton Community Legal Centre

15. When can I?
CLC/Agency: Central Community Legal Service
Contact Person: Alan Merritt
Jurisdiction: SA

A quiz which tells young people at what age they may do such things as get a tattoo, smoke, vote, have body piercings, drink alcohol and get a driving licence.

16. Youth workshops, Youth Justice publication, playing cards
CLC/Agency: Macquarie Legal Centre
Contact Person: Carolina Saez
Jurisdiction: NSW

There are three ongoing projects that the Youth Education Project at Macquarie Legal Centre is responsible for: workshops, a book and playing cards.

Youth workshops for young people explain their rights and responsibilities. The workshops include actors who present three separate scenarios. A resource is currently being developed to run the workshops using a film instead of the live theatre. The resource will include a DVD, a powerpoint presentation and a study guide.

"Youth Justice: Your Guide to Cops and Court in NSW" is a publication aimed at those working with young people and how best they can support them in criminal matters

"Real Deal" playing cards: each card contains a legal tip and is aimed at ...

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