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Recommendation 5:
- Envision an island where Indigenous people are whole, safe, strong, housed—transformed through love and care
- Identify sister communities
- Build and maintain strong partnerships, create MoU’s, protocols for practice
- Commit to action through short and long term planning
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Recommendation 241:
Specific actions and protocols need to be implemented, designed and supported by the federal and provincial government for missing Aboriginal women and youth cases. The creation of protocols for respectful working relationships with the justice system to support this end is also needed.(p.20)
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Recommendation 6:
- Establish Indigenous supports in Victoria to align traditional practice with Western models of harm reduction
- Develop a ‘healing house’ to support people being discharged from hospital, treatment and incarceration to provide them with time and support to heal and strengthen their spirit
- Pilot a Residence Managed Alcohol Program
- Begin to reach out across the Island to establish pockets of Indigenized harm reduction ‘healing communities’, seek funding
- Provide culturally supportive housing
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Recommendation 1:
We call upon the federal, provincial, territorial, and Aboriginal governments to commit to reducing the number of Aboriginal children in care by: i. Monitoring and assessing neglect investigations. ii. Providing adequate resources to enable Aboriginal communities and child-welfare organizations to keep Aboriginal families together where it is safe to do so, and to keep children in culturally appropriate environments, regardless of where they reside. iii. Ensuring that social workers and others who conduct child-welfare investigations are properly educated and trained about the history and impacts of residential schools. iv. Ensuring that social workers and others who conduct child-welfare investigations are properly educated and trained about the potential for Aboriginal communities and families to provide more appropriate solutions to family healing. v. Requiring that all child-welfare decision makers consider the impact of the residential school experience on children and their caregivers.
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Recommendation 5:
Recommends that Canadian legislation mimic the language of the US Indian Child Welfare Act, which requires evidence that social workers have made “active efforts” that “proved unsuccessful.
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Recommendation 115:
Provision of affordable transportation to available resources (p.8)
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Recommendation 400:
Provincial awareness campaigns on issues of family violence should be promoted. The Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs should take the lead role in coordinating efforts with other relevant Ministries to develop a process where aboriginal communities, on and off reserves, are involved in planning and implementing strategies in this field. The communities’ ability to have meaningful control over the development and implementation of the process should be respected and promoted. (p.22)
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Recommendation 346:
Provide training…for police to make prevention of violence against Indigenous women a genuine priority [including] Meetings with Indigenous women leaders and other community members…to build understanding of the specific risks to Indigenous women in Canadian society and establish and strengthen relationships of trust between police and Indigenous communities. (p.66)
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Recommendation 447:
Provide training and resources for police to make prevention of violence against Indigenous women a genuine priority…Officers found to have failed to act on reports of missing women, or to have carried out biased or inadequate investigation of violence against women, should be subject to appropriate discipline. (p.66)
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Recommendation 23:
We call upon all levels of government to: i. Increase the number of Aboriginal professionals working in the health-care field. ii. Ensure the retention of Aboriginal health-care providers in Aboriginal communities. iii. Provide cultural competency training for all healthcare professionals.
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