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Recommendation 28: x. transition supports for families who have just had a child apprehended or returned
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- Ableism ,
- Classism ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Racism
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Recommendation 24: Work with industry to ensure lower income families and youth have access to technology (both hardware and Internet access) so that they are able to apply for financial assistance and access learning opportunities and other supports.
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Recommendation 11: With the advice and direction of youth in and from government care, the provincial government should develop, resource, and maintain a universal and comprehensive social safety net dedicated to the specific needs and circumstances of the approximately 1,000 youth who ‘age out’ of care annually and all young adults who have spent time in the care system, without age and activity eligibility criteria and length-of-care requirements.
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Recommendation 1: We ask that police collect and share disposition data on the outcomes of mental health calls. Since poverty, discrimination and trauma align with mental health issues, we echo CMHA’s recommendation that police forces in B.C. collect, analyze and disclose race-based and other demographic data to identify systemic issues underpinning police response to people in crisis.
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Recommendation 20: Tie rent control to the unit to remove the incentive for evictions of current tenants to raise the rent for new tenants.
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Recommendation 170: There is an urgent requirement for comprehensive and informed Gender/Diversity Analysis as well as an equality analysis of [restorative justice issues]. This particular implications of these initiatives for ethnic/cultural communities and gay/lesbians/bisexuals should be identified and reviewed for the express purpose of ensuring these initiatives do not compromise the safety of members of these communities and in fact serve these communities well. As well, the implications of these initiatives for poor people, elderly people, and for people with disabilities have yet to be considered. (p.47)
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Recommendation 19: The provincial government should tie rent control to the unit to remove the incentive for evictions of current tenants to raise the rent for new tenants.
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Recommendation 4: The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring total welfare incomes up to the CFLIM after-tax poverty thresholds and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 3: The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring them in line with actual living expenses and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 5: The provincial government should significantly raise income and disability assistance rates to bring them in line with actual living expenses and index them to inflation.
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