178 search results for
In poverty
Recommendation 8:
Index the BC Child Opportunity Benefit to inflation to ensure the value of the benefit does not erode over time.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 2:
Increasing investment in home and community care can help more seniors stay healthy and independent in their homes. Home support services to help with cooking and bathing, home nursing, long-term residential care and end-of-life palliative care are vital for lower-income seniors (mainly women) and will also help people with physical and mental disabilities.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 63:
Increase the number of paid work experience programs that build on youth’s lived expertise. For example, the youth-led “Light the Way Youth Homelessness Conference.”
-
Category and theme:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 73:
Increase the earnings exemptions for those on income and disability assistance and end the claw back of unearned income.
-
Category and theme:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 13:
Increase program funding and support for families raising children with disabilities and complex medical needs to ensure they have timely, universal access everywhere in BC to a core suite of early intervention therapies; timely assessments; family respite; inclusive child care; health, medical and in-home supports.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 14:
Increase investment in public health initiatives aimed to support maternal health and healthy infant development, as well as non-barriered, free, community-based programs and services for all families with young children to ensuring these supports are available throughout the province and designed to reach families experiencing poverty and other threats to their ability to thrive.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 23:
Include a Community Economic Development strategy that is based entirely from a culturally and community specific lens. This recommendation includes legitimizing and uplifting the survival economy, informal economy, and other systems that have been pushed to the margins, with measures to increase opportunities for more equitable and inclusive employment.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 25:
In the interim, reducing criminalization and stigmatization of community members would alleviate further social divides. Instead, we recommend an approach that allows them to thrive that takes an inclusive approach to housing, employment, social security, and access (services, food, other), which would require cooperative action by all levels of government and stakeholders.
-
Category and theme:
Audience:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 5:
Implement UN Sustainable Development Goal 1.5: ‘By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social, and environmental shocks and disasters’ in B.C.
-
Category and theme:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation:
Recommendation 19:
Implement investments and policies to target LGBTQIA2S+ poverty.
-
Category and theme:
Groups affected:
Location of recommendation: