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The Health Justice Program is a partnership between St. Michael's Hospital Academic Family Health Team and Neighbourhood Legal Services, with 3 specialty clinics advising:The partnership is funded through Legal Aid Ontario with in-kind contributions from all partners.
We primarily support rostered patients of the St. Michael’s Hospital Academic Family Health Team (SMHAFHT) who are low-income and facing legal issues that affect health and well-being (for example, discrimination, safety, employment, family, or housing). If you’re not rostered with the SMH FHT, we’ll do our best to connect you with the right community legal service. Our mission statement helps guide us in our goals to:
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🩺 Client Services
We provide legal information, navigation, and brief services for about 300 patients each year.
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🎓 Legal Education
We teach, publish, and mentor across disciplines—helping providers recognize health-harming legal needs.
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⚖️ Advocacy
We work alongside clients and communities to change unfair systems.
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We provide legal information, navigation, and brief services for about 300 patients each year.
Learn more → Our Impact
🎓 Legal Education
We teach, publish, and mentor across disciplines—helping providers recognize health-harming legal needs.
Learn more → Our Impact
⚖️ Advocacy
We work alongside clients and communities to change unfair systems.
Learn more → Advocacy
Contacting The Health Justice Program
How to Make Contact with the HJP:
What should I expect when speaking with the paralegal, law students, or lawyer?
Drop-in clinics
Drop-in clinics are only for patients of the St. Michael’s FHT when you have not been able to get a referral from a member of the health-care team (see schedule at top of page).
- Contact us directly, or attend one of our drop-in afternoons (see below)
- Ask to be referred to us through your doctor, nurse practitioner, social worker or other health care provider
What should I expect when speaking with the paralegal, law students, or lawyer?
- Please ask for translation services and/or disability related accommodations
- Phone or in person appointments are around 30 minutes long
- At a minimum, we will give you legal information and a referral to legal services in the community
- Bring or have relevant documents ready for review
- To assess our program, we will ask you confidential questions that will remain anonymous. Answering these questions is voluntary
Drop-in clinics
Drop-in clinics are only for patients of the St. Michael’s FHT when you have not been able to get a referral from a member of the health-care team (see schedule at top of page).
Contact information
Xin Meng, Paralegal
[email protected]
Phone: 647-239-8283 (this phone is answered Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
Xin Meng, Paralegal
[email protected]
Phone: 647-239-8283 (this phone is answered Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.)
