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Recommendation 43:
There should be pro-active prevention work to help youth access detox or treatment before overdosing. Youth need increased support with safety planning and managing triggers such as connecting with negative people due to boredom or isolation.
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Recommendation 78:
The sector has identified increased substance use and overdoses as a result of the pandemic. The Coalition recommends low-barrier services that are implemented through a harm reduction lens, providing youth with a safe supply, and increasing the number of youth-specific treatment programs. The lack of treatment supports for youth is compounded by the risks associated with Bill 22 without the appropriate services for youth to transition into after being detained.
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Recommendation 26:
The provincial government should increase investment in public health initiatives aimed to support maternal health and healthy infant development, as well as non-barriered, free, community-based programs and services for all families with young children to ensuring these supports are available throughout the province and designed to reach families experiencing poverty and other threats to their ability to thrive.
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Recommendation 6:
The plan is to be developed by April 1, 2022, with full implementation being completed within the ensuing two years.
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Recommendation 1:
The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General and the Attorney General, working in full partnership with historically marginalized communities and communities with high levels of police interactions, must develop a set of guiding values and principles for policing in British Columbia that are grounded in human rights.
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Recommendation 6:
That the Ministry of Health incrementally reduce wait times for complex developmental behavioural conditions (CDBC) diagnostic clinics, and also secure additional resources to provide for periodic follow-up assessments, at key development stages from infancy through to adolescence. The Ministry of Health to reduce wait times to nine months by March 31, 2022; to six months by March 31, 2023; to three months by March 31, 2024; and thereafter increase capacity to provide for follow-up assessments.
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Recommendation 181:
The Ministries of Attorney General and Public Safety and Solicitor General should enhance their efforts to address systemic factors that affect victim safety, including…lack of interpreters and services in immigrant women’s own language, including police services; lack of resources and training to deal with victims or offenders with mental health issues…(p.53)
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Recommendation 19:
The federal and provincialgovernments should work together to introduce universal coverage for all Canadians for prescription drugs, dental care, vision care and hearing aids as essential aspects of health care.
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Recommendation 25:
The federal and provincial governments should work together to introduce universal coverage for all Canadians for prescription drugs, dental care, eye care and hearing aids as essential aspects of health care.
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Recommendation 155:
The federal and provincial governments make money available immediately for transition houses and women’s shelters to make all their frequently used resource materials and other pertinent information available to women with visual, learning, and developmental disabilities and that the purchase of TDDs be included in this package. (p.148)
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