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Recommendation 39:
The relevant provincial ministries should engage in extensive education and outreach to legislators and staff across the provincial government, and local governments to introduce the stigma-auditing tool to law and policymakers, and to train stigma auditors.
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Recommendation 415:
The overall society needs to also be educated on Aboriginal people’s history and present challenges that support family violence. The societal awakening is a necessity to change the prevalence of violence directed at Aboriginal women and families. (p.19)
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Recommendation 9:
The greatest commonality between sex workers in Canada is the stigma they face. Most sex workers live in fear that their work will be revealed to family and neighbours. This stigma perpetuates conditions that have allowed predators to murder, rape, and abuse sex workers with impunity, because police failed to investigate and prosecute these crimes. Education is also needed to dismantle negative stereotypes about sex workers, but law reform is essential. Changing the law would be a first step towards undoing the stigma and accepting sex work as an occupation and people who do sex work as full members of our communities.
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Recommendation 9:
The Director of Police Services must work with the Independent Investigations Office and the Coroners Service to audit deaths and serious injuries in city cells in BC over the past 10 years, including an analysis of race, disability, housing status, and gender, and, make the findings and recommendations for reform publicly available.
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Recommendation 219:
The development of information-sharing protocols between all service providers for all high risk cases under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General Domestic Violence Working Group. This entails directives from respective ministries to commit to sharing information in instances where public safety is at stake by means of Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) or Information Sharing Agreements (ISA). The MOU’s and ISA’s detail each agency’s duty to report on cases of domestic violence. (p. 8)
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Recommendation 389:
That…a public education campaign recognize that child abuse is a part of the whole spectrum of family violence, and that other forms of family violence, particularly the battering of a child’s mother, constitute a form of emotional abuse even if the child is not physically involved. (p.18)
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Recommendation 12:
That the Ombudsperson consider including a focus on Indigenous-specific racism in the health care system as a key priority and seek input from appropriate partners on current plans to strengthen this priority through engagement, special activities to promote greater fairness in public services to Indigenous peoples, and reporting to the public on progress.
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Recommendation 22:
That the B.C. government, in consultation and co-operation with Indigenous peoples, consider further truth-telling and public education opportunities that build understanding and support for action to address Indigenous-specific racism in the health care system; supplemented by a series of educational resources, including for use in classrooms of all ages and for the public, on the history of Indigenous health and wellness prior to the arrival of Europeans, and since that time.
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Recommendation 12:
Suspend discretionary use of revocation power where anti-terrorism financing or counter-radicalization policies inform the audit;
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Recommendation 6:
Support the development of the Friendly Landlord Network to increase youth’s access to market housing. There should be more public education initiatives that engage landlords by creating accountability within community to support youth and fostering a sense of purpose by helping youth. The provincial government could provide tax incentives for individual homeowners to provide affordable rent and become a part of the Friendly Landlord Network or something similar.
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