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Self-Advocacy & Essential Legal Information Handbook – Alberta

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After holding focus groups across Alberta, CNIB created this legal information handbook to provide helpful responses to some of the most common questions we heard. 

In the handbook below, you’ll find: 

  • The key differences between "self-advocacy" and "legal advocacy"
  • Information about how to effectively advocate for yourself and others
  • Steps you can take to obtain reliable legal help
  • The key differences between "legal information" and "legal advice"
  • Different types of legal help
  • Essential legal information including key legislation
  • An overview of Alberta's human rights laws
  • Links to helpful legal services and community supports

The Know Your Rights legal Information handbooks are available in two different formats:

 

If you’d like to receive this handbook in Braille or DAISY format, please email knowyourrights@cnib.ca. Did this handbook answer your question or did it connect you to a helpful resource? Please let us know!

The Know Your Rights Alberta project was graciously funded by the Alberta Law Foundation.

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