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Poverty
Recommendation 65:
Zero Ceiling is a promising practice that has integrated employment and housing to help bridge youth out of homelessness into a sense of purpose. They provide mental health support and a strong recreation component that helps youth thrive in wellness.
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Recommendation 60:
Youth need support with food security and supplies such as home kits provided by non-profits.
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Recommendation 62:
Youth need job training programs that provide case management, wraparound support, employment certificates, and workshops. There should be Indigenous specific programs.
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Recommendation 76:
Youth aging out of care is the most vulnerable population at risk of homelessness as a result of COVID-19. The sector recommends a staggering approach of youth aging out post-pandemic as service providers will not have the capacity to support this larger cohort. MCFD must continue providing the low-barrier Agreements with Young Adults to help bridge youth into safe and secure housing.
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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:
In order to ensure adequate and effective policing and law enforcement, the Ministry must have data to show how policing and law enforcement is performing related to mental health crises. If there is a crisis healthcare gap marked by police over-involvement in mental health crisis, it will appear as:
- High rates of police involvement in people accessing first-time mental health support
- High rates of arrest and/or incarceration of individuals with mental health challenges,
- High rates of police apprehending individuals for psychiatric evaluations in which the individual does not meet the criteria for hospital admission
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Recommendation 28:
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 7:
To be successful, a National Action Plan must be accompanied by adequate sustained funding to meet its goals as well as means to ensure accountability to Parliament and to the Indigenous women and their families who the plan would serve. Critically, such a plan should be developed in collaboration with Indigenous women’s organizations to ensure their full and effective participation in defining needs and solutions.
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- Access to justice ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Racism ,
- Representation and leadership ,
- Sexism
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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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