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Recommendation 97:
All relevant agencies/ministries need to be involved in meaningful collaboration – not only representatives from frontline anti-violence, mental health and substance use sectors. (p.20)
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Recommendation 34:
We call upon the governments of Canada, the provinces, and territories to undertake reforms to the criminal justice system to better address the needs of offenders with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), including: i. Providing increased community resources and powers for courts to ensure that FASD is properly diagnosed, and that appropriate community supports are in place for those with FASD. ii. Enacting statutory exemptions from mandatory minimum sentences of imprisonment for offenders affected by FASD. iii. Providing community, correctional, and parole resources to maximize the ability of people with FASD to live in the community. iv. Adopting appropriate evaluation mechanisms to measure the effectiveness of such programs and ensure community safety.
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Recommendation 5:
Adequate, sustained, and long-term funding to ensure the provision of culturally relevant services to meet the needs of Indigenous women and girls at risk of violence or in contact with the police and justice system, including emergency shelters, court workers, services for survivors of violence and specific programs to assist women and girls who have been trafficked within Canada.
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- Access to justice ,
- Alternative solutions ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Emergency response ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Racism ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 364:
Addressing Sexual Assault: Provide and enhance specialized training for all justice, health, and social service personnel, on the dynamics of sexual assault, normal victim responses to sexual assault, the needs of sexual assault victims, and best practices in terms of investigation, prosecution, and intervention. (p.3)
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Recommendation 320:
Addressing Sexual Assault: 1. Provide funding and other support for enhanced specialization and integrated service provision in the justice system and hospital responses to sexual assault. (p.2)
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Recommendation 133:
Addressing Gaps in Services for Marginalized Women: Provide interpreters for family law cases at Supreme Court, for other essential legal services such as court registry business, court preparation, Crown, and legal aid, and for essential health care services, on a priority basis. (p.4)
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Recommendation 161:
Addressing Gaps in Services for Marginalized Women: Provide funding and encourage innovative approaches to enhance physical accessibility of services, interpreters for those with communication disabilities, and adaptation of key information materials for those with sight/hearing impairments. (p.4)
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Recommendation 177:
Addressing Gaps in Services for Marginalized Women: Provide appropriate and effective cross-sectoral in-service training to address the particular needs of marginalized women, on an ongoing basis to staff of all victim support services, as well as system-based justice, health, and social services to help ensure that existing services can better meet the needs of marginalized women. (p.3)
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Recommendation 162:
Addressing Gaps in Services for Marginalized Women: Provide adequate funding for victim support services for abused women with mental health and substance use issues, such as STV counselling. (p.4)
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Recommendation 64:
Acknowledge the strategic importance of working with other community services in the delivery of STV counselling and program goals. Include inter-agency collaboration as a contracted STV program activity to deliver presentations specifically to social and health service providers, and to participate in inter-agency committees and integrated case management teams. (p.7)
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