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Decolonization and Indigenous rights
Recommendation 2:
We call on the Province of British Columbia to link the implementation and monitoring of the Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act with the First Nations PHWA as a way to monitor the impacts of increased self-determination on First Nations roots of wellness and health outcomes.
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Recommendation 13:
We call on the health system to expand on their initial primary care investments and make policy changes to equitably increase access and attachment to culturally safe primary health care services, moving towards team-based models of care that are wholistic and rooted in culture and traditions.
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Recommendation 1:
We call on the Government of Canada, in meaningful partnership with First Nations, to pass private members Bill C-262, or an equivalent bill, to enact legislation that will require the federal government to align its existing and new legislation with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Recommendation 4:
We call on system partners who possess data that relates to First Nations health and wellness in the broadest sense to uphold First Nations data governance principles to make the data accessible to First Nations and their organizations. Goals of this work include supporting self-determination, Nation-rebuilding, and further development of institutions. FNHA is uniquely positioned to support the data governance of Nations, while providing a strong voice on First Nations population health at the provincial level through a stewardship and Watchmon role.
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Recommendation 11:
We call on health authorities and provincial ministries to work with First Nations to meaningfully embed wellness-focused, strengths-based approaches in their policies, programs, and services, as well as new initiatives emblematic of a wellness approach.
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Recommendation 3:
We call on BC municipal governments to review practices, policies, and bylaws and take actions in meaningful partnership with local First Nations, on whose territory they now reside, to promote local First Nations self-determination. Municipalities and local BC First Nations should collaboratively identify opportunities to nourish local BC First Nations’ roots of wellness and develop mechanisms to regularly demonstrate reciprocal accountability on progress towards increased shared decision-making and First Nations self-determination.
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Recommendation 12:
We call on all systems partners to make commitments and/or continue to act on commitments signed in the Cultural Safety and Humility Declarations by embedding cultural safety and humility throughout the system and to evaluate those actions.
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Recommendation 92:
We call for the establishment of a Child and Youth Advocate in each jurisdiction with a specialized unit with the mandate of Indigenous children and youth. These units must be established within a period of one year of this report. We call upon the federal government to establish a National Child and Youth Commissioner who would also serve as a special measure to strengthen the framework of accountability for the rights of Indigenous children in Canada. This commissioner would act as a national counterpart to the child advocate offices that exist in nearly all provinces and territories.
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Recommendation 6:
We call for a unified and intersectoral approach that develops mechanisms, in meaningful partnership with First Nations organizations and collectives, to amplify the voices of First Nations children, youth, parents, and grandparents, to guide specific actions and investments that advance the roots of wellness of the next generation.
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Recommendation 113:
We applaud the work of Dr. Cindy Blackstock and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and call on the federal government to comply with the legally-binding orders of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to:
- Immediately and fully apply Jordan’s principle to all First Nations children living on and off reserve.
- Apply Jordan’s principle based on the need of the child and not limited to the normative standard of care.
- Ensure that administrative delays do not delay service provision and respond to most cases within 48 hours.
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