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Recommendation 10:
The Ministry of Housing and Municipal Affairs (MHMA) must make a province-wide commitment to supporting homeless people to maintain their belongings and to ensuring that homeless people have access to services without fear of losing their possessions. The MHMA must partner with local governments in collaboration with groups of people with lived experience, to train local bylaw officers: a. to recognize and respect the belongings of homeless people; and b. to work effectively with people experiencing homelessness to clean up or discard belongings where there is a pressing public safety, access, or environmental need to do so.
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Recommendation 96:
To utilize the experience and expertise of community-based organizations and professionals working in the area of violence against women, including violence against immigrant, refugee, and non-status women, a formal relationship should be established between the inter-ministry body charged with ongoing development and coordination of Government’s response to violence against women and the Community Coordination for Women’s Safety Program Provincial Working Group. (p.6)
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Recommendation 16:
These issues are multi-faceted and many hold strong opinions. The commission will be well-placed to examine the various perspectives and considerations important to all stakeholders and, if appropriate, to make recommendations that will help advance these issues and our understanding of them.
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Recommendation 4:
These examples indicate a need for there to be an explicit legal obligation on the Ministry to actively consider placing the child with extended family members or returning the child to the parent. The federal standard, as set out in Bill C-92, requires that a reassessment of available alternative placements is “conducted on an ongoing basis.”
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Recommendation 6:
There should also be a requirement that the Ministry respond to alternative proposals by parents, Nations, and community-based organizations that support the parent. The Yellowhead Institute recommends that the legislation include “affidavit evidence from the Indigenous group that there is no available placement.
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Recommendation 196:
The Violence in Relationships Check Sheet be amended to reflect the mandatory obligation on an investigating officer to attempt to persuade a reluctant complainant to cooperate with the investigation and prosecution or to attempt to obtain her consent to a referral to an appropriate community based victims services agency. (p.24)
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Recommendation 251:
The VAWIR policy should be monitored on a routine, ongoing basis and should be evaluated periodically in order to assess its impact on domestic violence cases, on recidivism, and on victims’ safety. (p.60)
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Recommendation 467:
The provincial government, in consultation with the community, must…review contracts for transition houses, sexual assault centres and victim assistance programs to allow adequate funding to bring staff salaries up to the level of comparable workers with government.
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Recommendation 104:
The provincial government, in consultation with the community, must…immediately increase funding for direct services to aboriginal people suffering the effects of family and sexual violence, using service delivery models and guidelines currently being developed through the Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs. (p.5)
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Recommendation 435:
The provincial government, in consultation with the community, must…establish a provincial committee to monitor and evaluate: (a) the implementation of the wife assault and sexual assault policies; and (b) the operation of the model for the protection of assaulted women. (p.6)
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