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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 371:
[Shelters should] Train shelter staff on appropriate language and sensitivity to the needs of women with disabilities. (p.9)
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Recommendation 165:
[Shelters should] Keep updated information on community resources for parents with disabilities (including where to find accessible cribs, strollers, lifts, etc.) (p.9)
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Recommendation 164:
[Shelters should] Keep information about community ASL interpreters available to shelter staff. (p.9)
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Recommendation 464:
[Shelter providers should] Implement gender-responsive… program evaluation and monitoring systems. (p.46)
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Recommendation 386:
[Shelter providers should] Implement gender responsive staff training…(p.46).
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Recommendation 192:
[Government should] Prior to every release of an RFP in rural communities, consider all possible alternative for homeless women including such options as mobile homes, scatter housing or other low-cost options rather than assume that separate space for women is cost prohibitive (p.46)
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Recommendation 102:
[Government should] Develop an inter-governmental working committee, comprised of provincial, municipal and BC Housing representative, to focus on women’s safety, homeless families and creation of best practices in shelters inclusive of contract language, integration in the BC Housing Frameworks, a gender responsive framework, and a protocol for homeless families in the province when there is no shelter, nor viable Transition House option. This is crucial in meeting the Human Rights Act and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms’ obligations to protect women. (p.45)
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Recommendation 385:
[BC organizations seeking to ensure gender-responsive service delivery in shelters should] Provide training and education in effective therapeutic approaches and core issues affecting women to all staff who work with women; (p.45).
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Recommendation 191:
[BC organizations seeking to ensure gender-responsive service delivery in shelters should] Designate separate women-only spaces including sleeping areas, washrooms, lunge/eating areas and program/counseling space (p.45)
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