Aims and Objectives
Darebin Community Legal Centre's Aims and Objectives include:
- Encouraging participation in the running of the Centre by people who are not lawyers and people who live in the Darebin area
- Increasing the understanding that local residents and workers have of the laws and legal processes by providing legal education to the community
- Encouraging the social, economic and political positions of local residents
- Participating in the process of changing laws that are unjust or difficult to understand
- Conducting training courses for volunteer and employed staff to enable them to assist in carrying out the objectives of the Centre
- Representing the views of the service on behalf of the client group to the State and Federal Governments, Parliament, semi-government and local government bodies
- Co-operating with other legal aid services
- Collecting data relevant to research into law related social issues
