Mental Health Law
What is a mental illness ?
What was the name of the professor's dog in the advocacy slides
What is Diva ?
The agency that is responsible for investigations of child abuse in Ontario.
What are Children's Aid Societies?
This refers to legislated restrictions on rent increases on rental properties under certain circumstances.
What is rent control?
Name three types of government In Canada
What is ?
Federal
Provincial
Municipal
Name one statute that forms the legal framework of mental health service delivery on Ontario
What is the
Mental health Act
Health Care Consent Act
Substitute Decisions Act
This refers to an individual's ability to effectively communicate, convey, negotiate or assert his or her own interests, desires, needs, and rights
What is self-advocacy?
The responsibility that a professional has to report abuse to a local protection agency is called
What is " Duty to Report"?
A landlord can explore to increase a rent above the permitted rent when he or she applies to this Board
What is the Landlord and Tenants Board ?
These are written codes of law, also called Acts or Legislation
What are Statutes
The legal act that appoints someone as another person's attorney for property and personal care
What is Power of Attorney ?
This type of advocacy is about changing policies, laws or rules that impact how someone lives their life. These efforts can be targeted at a municipal, provincial or federal level
What is system's advocacy?
This is the legislation guides child protection in Ontario and ensures practices to meet the best interest of the child
What is the Child ,Youth and family Services Act? or CYFSA
A tenants right to occupy a rented apartment without landlord intrusion is called
What is quiet enjoyment ?
This type of Law is a body of legal principles, established through court decisions (cases)
What is Common Law ?
This term refers to a doctors ability to have someone detained for a 72 hour period for psychiatric observation
What is a form 1 ?
Tying yourself to a tree to prevent a construction company from destroying a forest is called
What is Activism?
According to the CYFSA , failure to report child abuse in Ontario can have a professional fined up to this amount
What is $ 5000
This Act includes rights of tenants, and procedures of eviction.
What is the Residential Tenancies Act?
Being part of the constitution, it expresses the fundamental values and principles of our society, centred on Canada's perception of itself as a free and democratic society.
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms ?
Famous sportscaster in Ottawa that was killed by a mentally ill individual in 1995 that led to significant changes to the Ontario Mental Health law in year 2000.
Who is Brian Smith ?
Catch phrase to describe , people who make noise or demand change are often brought at the top of the politicians, governments pile of work, if not make enough noise, the issue will be kept at the bottom of the pile.
What is "the squeaky wheel gets the grease" ?
A person only needs this to report child abuse to a children's aid society
What are reasonable grounds to suspect?
Name 2 things that a landlord cannot shut off or interfere with as they are vital services to a tenant's rental unit
What is heat, electricity, hot or cold water or fuel
This is the supreme law of the land. It is the framework under which all other laws are created.
What is the Constitution?