Community Legal Education Legal Assistance Forum
The Community Legal Education Legal Assistance Forum (CLELAF) was established in June 2011 after extensive consultation with stakeholders across the community legal sector. The CLELAF is a specialist sub-forum of the Queensland Legal Assistance Forum (QLAF).
The purpose of the CLELAF is to promote cooperation and collaboration between legal service providers which are delivering and initiating community legal education (CLE) activities. The network also seeks to promote and share good practice models.
CLELAF activities include:
- web-based legal information
- written publications including factsheets, information kits and legal guides
- legal information sessions for members of the community, community support and government workers
- community development projects that focus on increasing awareness within more hard-to-reach communities
- events.
Membership
The membership of the CLELAF includes representatives from the community legal sector and government legal service providers delivering CLE services.
Current membership is comprised of representatives from:
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service (ATSILS)
- Aged and Disability Advocacy Australia Ltd (ADA Law)
- Basic Rights Queensland Inc (BRQ)
- Bayside Community Legal Service (BCLS)
- Cairns Community Legal Centre (CCLC)
- Carers Queensland
- Caxton Legal Centre
- Community Legal Centres Queensland (CLCQ)
- Central Queensland Community Legal Centre (CQCLC)
- Department of Justice (DoJ)
- HUB Community Legal
- Knowmore
- LawRight
- Legal Aid Queensland (LAQ)
- LGBTI Legal Service
- Mackay Regional Community Legal Centre (MRCLC)
- North Queensland Women’s Legal Service
- Northside Connect
- Pine Rivers Community Legal Centre
- Prisoners’ Legal Service
- Queensland Advocacy for Inclusion (QAI)
- Queensland Human Rights Commission (QHRC)
- Queensland Indigenous Family Violence Legal Service (QIFVLS)
- Refugee and Immigration Legal Service (RAILS)
- Suncoast Community Legal Centre (SCLS)
- TASC National
- Tenants Queensland
- Townsville Community Law
- Wide Bay Burnett Community Legal Service (WBBCLS)
- Women’s Legal Service Qld (WLSQ)
- YFS Ltd
- Youth Advocacy Centre (YAC).
Terms of reference
The Terms of reference establishes the purpose, roles and responsibilities of the CLELAF.