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Recommendation 11:
We recommend legislation require that isolation for medical purposes be authorized by independent registered health care professionals, with reasons provided to the prisoner and their legal representative.
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Recommendation 10:
We recommend that legislation require any placements in observation cells for the purpose of monitoring prisoners at risk of self-harm or suicide be authorized by independent registered mental health professionals, with reasons provided to the prisoner and their legal representative. Such placements must not exceed six hours and must be imposed only at treatment centres.
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Recommendation 119:
1. Increase the number of funded aboriginal-specific victim support programs in areas with high aboriginal populations. In rural areas, consider aboriginal satellite programs or aboriginal Outreach workers attached to programs serving the general population. (p.4)
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Recommendation 146:
1. As part of the Province’s Domestic Violence Action Plan, health ministries should work with Regional Health Authorities and CIC to establish clinics and other strategies across BC to provide accessible health care services to abused non-status women and their children, as well as health care services specifically targeted to abused immigrant and refugee women. (p.5)
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Recommendation 404:
[Provincial-territorial Ministries of health should] Integrate the issue of violence prevention into health promotions programs. (p.45)
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Recommendation 220:
[Minister of Health Services and Minister of Advanced Education and Labour Market Development should undertake] The collaborative development of practice guidelines for assessing risk for domestic and other forms of violence that include a focus on the assessment of homicidal ideation and intent….(p.11)
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Recommendation 393:
[Feminist services should] have education workshops [for women with disabilities] to raise self-esteem, empowerment, and assertiveness. We should teach women where, how, when to get help – effective help that is immediate. (p.149)
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Recommendation 101:
[BC organizations seeking to ensure gender-responsive service delivery in shelters should] Build relationships and links with existing support services for women such as health care, legal, social housing, social services and employment training programs, and violence against women and victim support services; (p.45)
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Recommendation 439:
[All non-governmental services …and governmental services…should] Undertake the systematic collection of data to determine the needs and percentage of users by forms of violence and populations. (p.40)
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Recommendation 392:
…that girls and young women with disabilities have access to high quality sex-education materials and that, whenever and wherever possible, these materials be designed to take into account the needs of girls and women with every type of disability. (p.16)
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