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Children and youth
Recommendation 76:
Youth aging out of care is the most vulnerable population at risk of homelessness as a result of COVID-19. The sector recommends a staggering approach of youth aging out post-pandemic as service providers will not have the capacity to support this larger cohort. MCFD must continue providing the low-barrier Agreements with Young Adults to help bridge youth into safe and secure housing.
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Work with the Ministry of Education to ensure that provincial public school education strategies include standardized, up-to-date drug safety messages from primary through secondary school, including mental health literacy and coping strategies and timely referrals to treatment and supports for individuals experiencing problems.
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Recommendation 14:
Work with service providers to ensure youth have support to secure housing and receive ongoing, in-person life-skills support gain “adulting skills” in order to sustain housing.
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Recommendation 3:
Work with RCY to identify opportunities to enhance the quality and consistency of reporting on lost and missing children, inclusive of notifications when lost and missing children have been found.
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Recommendation 23:
Work with industry to ensure lower income families and youth have access to technology (both hardware and Internet access) so that they are able to apply for financial assistance, learning opportunities and access other supports.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 5:
Work with and fund community organizations that serve CYSN families to develop activity plans for children losing school-based and development-centre-based services.
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Recommendation 158:
Within the Nunavut Territory, we call upon the federal and territorial governments to fully implement the principles and objectives of Article 23 of the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement. Proportional representation is an imperative in the arenas of public services and, in particular, the child welfare system, social services, the criminal justice system, police services, the courts, and corrections throughout Inuit Nunangat.
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Recommendation 7:
When Indigenous children are involved, parents, extended family, Elders, and trusted community members must be involved in guiding service providers, caregivers, and foster parents in the customary laws of the community and traditional Indigenous child rearing practices (including adoption).
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
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Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2018
2018
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Recommendation 44:
We endorse the $10-a-day Child Care Plan and recommend government cease income-testing and continue to build and support our emergent $10-a-day plan for B.C.
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Recommendation 58:
We call upon the Pope to issue an apology to Survivors, their families, and communities for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in the spiritual, cultural, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children in Catholic-run residential schools. We call for that apology to be similar to the 2010 apology issued to Irish victims of abuse and to occur within one year of the issuing of this Report and to be delivered by the Pope in Canada.
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