Legal Services

Free legal advice and representation to low-income people in the Kamloops and Kelowna area. They help with income assistance, limited family law, disability, tenancy, employment insurance, employment standards, Indigenous legal issues, human rights, small claims, CRT matters, judicial reviews, and other areas not covered by legal aid.

Gives clear and meaningful information about legal issues, and advocacy and support to people who aren’t eligible for legal aid. Issues they help with include assisting with appeals, documents, attending hearings and preparing for court, and negotiating third party settlements. They provide self-help information, legal research, and referrals.

The Poverty and Housing Programs at Sacred Wolf Friendship Centre offer housing tenancy support and official document forms support (including birth certificates and Status Cards) to the communities of the Mt. Waddington District, especially to Indigenous people experiencing professional barriers.

Offers a range of family law advocacy services including legal information, referral, advocacy, and help to individuals in the community. The focus is primarily on family law, including child protection, guardianship, parenting time, support, separation and divorce, and protection orders, with some assistance in other overlapping matters.

The family law advocate helps with issues including child protection, guardianship, support, and separation and divorce. The poverty law advocate provides information, support, and one-on-one advocacy to get provincial and federal benefits and services. The legal advocate also helps with other issues such as debt and WCB.

Referrals, legal advice, and representation for issues related to poverty law, including disability and other benefits, tenancy issues, debt collection, and human rights; and issues related to family law, including child or spousal support, divorce, separation, and property division.

The clinic is staffed full-time by a supervising lawyer, a legal assistant, and a legal advocate. They provide free advocacy, legal advice, and representation (mainly to low-income individuals) on income assistance, disability, EI, CPP, OAS, survivor pensions, benefits, debt, residential tenancy, human rights, Indigenous legal issues, and more.

Free and confidential legal advocacy services including information and referrals, summary advice and support, and full representation in many legal matters including housing (on and off reserve), income/social assistance, debt, police accountability, human rights, disability, Indigenous legal issues, elder issues, child protection, and much more.

The clinic provides advice, assistance, and representation to eligible clients who can’t afford a lawyer and who self-identify as Indigenous. They help with administrative and civil law matters, criminal matters, Aboriginal law/Indigenous legal issues, family law matters, child protection, human rights complaints, and more.