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Indigenous children and youth in care
Recommendation 13:
MCFD must review its policies and practices to increase the use of ADR processes, including changing the definition of family in ADR processes to recognize and honour Indigenous conceptions of family.
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Recommendation 16:
MCFD must fulll the underlying intention of Grand Chief Ed John’s recommendation by undertaking a legislative review and financial policy review to ensure that all extended family-based caregivers are receiving the Child Tax Benefit and other benefits for each dependent in their care.
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Recommendation 19:
MCFD must continue to work with communities to ensure that they are being adequately funded to provide child welfare services.
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Recommendation 36:
MCFD must advocate with the provincial government for the creation of a universal kinship caregiver benefit that is provided to all families in kinship care. This should apply to all children living in kinship care including families in which kinship caregivers have been granted guardianship orders under the FLA
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Recommendation 14:
make specialized substance use consultants available to support families to develop timely safety planning including engaging and enabling the support of family members.
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Recommendation 15:
It is essential to the success of the commission, and the province’s relations with Indigenous people, that UNDRIP lens be brought into the creation of the new commission, and the work it will do. All of government has the responsibility to review policies, programs and legislation to determine how to bring the UNDRIP’s principles into action. The commission will have a role, from a human rights perspective, in ensuring that government fulfills this responsibility.
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- Access to justice ,
- Additions to the B.C. Human Rights Code ,
- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Education and employment ,
- Emergency response ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- International human rights ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Public education and reconciliation ,
- Representation and leadership
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Recommendation 32:
In the meantime, the BC government and MCFD should bridge the gap between the current welfare and disability rates and the MBM for all families that are at risk of having children apprehended by MCFD
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Recommendation 6:
Immediate measures to ensure that funding for healthcare, housing, education and other services for Indigenous women, children and families are equitable to those available to non-Indigenous people in Canada and sufficient to enable effective protection and full enjoyment of their rights. Particular priority should be given to eliminating discrimination in funding for child and family services.
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- Access to justice ,
- Classism ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Human rights system ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Pre-natal care ,
- Public services ,
- Racism ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 17:
Furthermore, the report calls on the federal government to ensure that there is full federal funding for Nations that assume jurisdiction over child welfare
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Recommendation 38:
Funding for cultural programming that is consistent and frequent
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