| CLEO’s Responding to Abuse and Violence Guided Pathways are
free online tools that help individuals in Ontario take steps related to abuse,
violence, harassment, and urgent family safety concerns. The pathways use a
question-and-answer format to guide users through legal processes and generate
personalized documents based on their responses. These tools are designed for
people experiencing or at risk of elder abuse, gender-based violence,
harassment, or family safety emergencies. They provide general legal information,
not legal advice.
This resource:
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Guides users through interactive, question-based
pathways related to abuse, violence, harassment, and family safety concerns
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Covers pathways for responding to elder abuse,
applying for a peace bond, pursuing a private prosecution for gender-based
violence, and making an emergency family law motion
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Generates personalized documents such as safety
plans, court forms, checklists, and other materials based on the user’s answers
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Uses plain language to help users understand
complex legal steps more clearly
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Allows users to save their progress by creating
an account, with privacy protections for personal information entered into the
system
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Builds digital navigation skills by helping
users work through an interactive online legal information tool
These guided pathways can be used to support digital
literacy, access to legal information, and safety planning by helping learners
navigate online forms and understand possible next steps when responding to
abuse or violence in Ontario.
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