plain language legal information
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What are the challenges of providing plain language legal information in various media (print, Web, videos, etc.)? Find out how one non-profit organization - Éducaloi - handles these challenges.TRANSCRIPT
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SynergyLaw
CommunicationCreativity
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Inform Quebecers of their rights and responsibilities by providing legal information in everyday language.
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Our Mission
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Be careful about preconceived ideas!
Your Target Audience
Victims of family violence – what we
thought they wanted to know
How the criminal court process works
Consequences of calling the police
Types of protection available short of going to court
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Be careful about preconceived ideas!
Your Target Audience
Victims of family violence
Recently arrived (less than seven years) go to police more often
Cultural misunderstandings
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Working in Various Media
Advantages Challenges Golden rules
In-person sessions, Web, webinars, videos and pamphlets
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ADVANTAGES
1. Popular
2. Can be interactive
3. Variety of presentationmethods possible
4. Can take pulse
In Person
5. Get to know your clientele
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CHALLENGES
1. Cost & time
In Person
2. Getting bodies in the room
3. Going “live” takes highlevel of expertise
4. Line information versus advice
5. Varying knowledge levels
6. Dynamic presenter
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GOLDEN RULES
1. Survey target audience(best time, place, content)
In Person
2. Market: tap into networks
3. Consider outside expert
4. Reframe questions to general
5. Questions under advisement
6. Direct to community resources
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GOLDEN RULES
7. Detailed description
In Person
8. Engage audience :exercises, vary presentationmethods, personalize, chance to network
9. Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate
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ADVANTAGES
1. Easy to update
2. Flexibility of design
3. Easily accessible
4. Hyperlinks: more texts, shorter texts!
Web
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CHALLENGES
1. Fairly high level of literacy required
2. Navigation through layers of information
3. Accessibility of Internet and high-speed Internet not universal
Web
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GOLDEN RULES
1. Learn how to write for the Web
2. Be familiar withsearch engineoptimization techniques
3. Promote site and use social media
4. One size does not always fit all!
Web
5. Ergonomics
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Webinars
ADVANTAGES
1. Time and cost savings
2. Cover distances
3. Can record
4. Simple production values
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CHALLENGES
1. Technology
4. Expertise needed
Webinars
2. Marketing3. Overcoming anonymity
5. Varying knowledge levelsand learning speeds
6. Line information versus advice
7. Updating
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GOLDEN RULES
1. Hand-holding regardingtechnology
Webinars
2. Marketing: tap into existing networks
3. Prompt interaction
4. Consider outside expert
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GOLDEN RULES
5. Break down topics
Webinars
6. Good description of content
7. Reframe questions
8. Questions under advisement
9. Direct to community resources
10. Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate
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ADVANTAGES
1. Overcomes literacy issues
2. Accommodates people who learn more visually
3. More likely to go viral
Videos
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CHALLENGES
1. Very hard to update
2. Can be costly to produce
3. Cannot be recalled from the Web
4. Harder for people to go back to parts not well understood.
Videos
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GOLDEN RULES
1. Ideally, two minutes max!
2. One main idea
3. Structure ideas so they are easy to understand orally
4. Use images
5. Emphasize contradictions and exceptions
6. Test your text by saying it out loud
Videos
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ADVANTAGES
1. Easy to use
2. Focuses on the most important information
Pamphlets
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CHALLENGES
2. Very hard to update
3. Proper layout and graphics
1. Choice of the right information
Pamphlets
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GOLDEN RULES
3. Limit the number of words
4. Use easy-to-read type size
6. Make sure the layout respects rules of readability
1. Focus on the main information and refer to other resources
5. Use charts and evocative images
2. One theme per page (ideally)
Pamphlets