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Recommendations for improving prevention-based efforts

Recommendation 26: MCFD should work with community-based organizations to assess creative ways that social workers could be placed directly within community including mechanisms that would need to be put in place to ensure this does not undermine the relationship of trust between community and families (i.e this may include frontline workers focusing only on prevention and no apprehension).


Recommendations for improving prevention-based efforts

Recommendation 27: MCFD must work with the Ministry of Public Safety & Solicitor General to develop a comprehensive strategy for parents that are incarcerated or on parole.

  • The strategy must recognize that it is not always in the best interests of the child to remove a child from a parent or guardian that has had engagement with the criminal justice system.
  • There must be supports to allow parents to have access with children in prison and while on parole. For example, the government should re-open the mother and baby unit in prisons.
  • The policy should set out a strategy for expediting criminal checks so that no child’s placement is delayed because of a criminal record check.



Recommendations for improving advocacy for parents and Indigenous communities

Recommendation 28: The BC government and MCFD must ensure that each parent engaging with MCFD has access to a trained community-based support worker to help them navigate the child welfare process. Community-based support workers must be trained in collaborative, trauma-informed, and culturally safe practices.


Recommendations for improving advocacy for parents and Indigenous communities

Recommendation 29: MCFD should work collaboratively with Indigenous communities to develop training and tools to support Indigenous peoples and communities to understand their rights regarding child welfare.


Recommendations for improving advocacy for parents and Indigenous communities

Recommendation 30: The BC government and MCFD to fund child and family advocates in each community-based organization and Nation as a support service to families and the broader community.


Recommendations for improving advocacy for parents and Indigenous communities

Recommendation 31: MCFD to ensure that the Indigenous community supporting the parent has been contacted and assisted to participate in the process where consent has been given by the parent.


Recommendations for improving advocacy for parents and Indigenous communities

Recommendation 32: MCFD to create a comprehensive list of region-specific services and supports that can be easily accessed by families and front-line support workers.


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