Programs

The Adopt-a-School program supports law-related learning by encouraging relationships between lawyers and schools.

Lawyers and law firms engaged in Adopt-a-School programs link with a school to provide law-education support. Actual activity may include mentoring students, acting as a legal resource for law teachers, coaching student mock trial teams, providing career information to classes, helping arrange justice sector classroom speakers, or presenting an OJEN Law Award to a student.

The Charter Challenge is an online simulation for High School students created to help students gain a better understanding of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Charter Challenge involves students in a collaborative, decision-making situation based on a real-world scenario.

Courtrooms & Classrooms is OJEN's signature program, focused primarily on schools. Courtrooms & Classrooms facilitates visits in courts and in schools, providing opportunities for students to have question and answer sessions with judges, Justices of the Peace, lawyers, Crown counsel, managers of court operations, duty counsel and others. Tens of thousands of students, and hundreds of justice sector volunteers participate in Courtrooms & Classrooms each year.

OJEN’s Elementary School Civil Mock Trial Program introduces students to the law, their rights, and the various roles in a courtroom, and gives students the opportunity to interact with justice sector volunteers in a positive environment.

This program is currently delivered in Toronto elementary classrooms in collaboration with the Toronto Lawyers Association (TLA). Based on its success, OJEN is poised to expand this program to other communities in Ontario.