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Children and youth
Recommendation 44:
Develop models for training young Muslim leaders for the future such as the YouthFellowship program in Toronto.
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Recommendation 302:
Develop mechanisms (policy, guidelines, and contract language) to ensure that assaultive men’s treatment providers work closely with victims, current spouses, and victim support services to ensure the safety of women and children. (p.2)
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Recommendation 66:
Develop fun workshops that connect youth to employers and gets employers feeling a sense of responsibility and achievement from employing youth.
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Recommendation 2:
Develop and build youth-specific housing that includes a variety of accommodations including communal, transitional, supportive, scattered site, and affordable market units. There should be designated low-barrier housing for youth with mental health and substance use concerns, as well as housing for youth who do not use substances. Youth recommend having teachers, nurses, and life-skills workers onsite.
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Recommendation 12:
Develop a Youth Housing Plan for each youth aging out with all the supports youth need to succeed. MCFD should provide one-year of after-care support.
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Recommendation 425:
Develop a public information/education strategy in collaboration with the various cultural communities and involving community and religious leadership, “ethnic media”, schools, and so on, to increase understanding of violence against women, emphasizing that it is a crime and describing the supports and services available to women, children, and men. (p.69)
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Recommendation 3:
Develop a Contingency Plan for every youth in care that includes alternative housing options and supports, including considerations and plans based on the youth’s culture.
COVID-19 & Youth Homelessness Special Report
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BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
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2020
2020
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Recommendation 77:
Develop a BC Youth Housing Action Plan that provides a continuum of housing and access to rental subsidies to ensure no young person is left without a home post pandemic.
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Recommendation 33:
Develop a “no wrong door” policy by ensuring all organizations know what resources are available and what youth need supports to ensure no youth falls through the cracks. Mental health organizations should partner with non-profits to provide youth with clinical supports and workshops. There should be one referral document for all services such as the Wrapforce program in Kamloops and the One Door initiative in Kelowna.
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Recommendation 3:
Designate housing units to the cohort of youth aging out of care post-pandemic to ensure no youth ages out into homelessness.
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