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Poverty
Recommendation 16:
Intensify efforts to help immigrants and refugees adjust to life in Canada by enhancing employment assistance, removing long-standing barriers to qualification for professionals trained abroad, making more language training with child care available, and improving employment standards and human rights protections and enforcement.
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Recommendation 32:
Integrate no-to-low cost counselling and other evidence-based mental health therapies into primary care networks and community health centres to support people in accessing mental health care at the first sign of illness.
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Recommendation 103:
information sharing, coordination and collaboration amongst all components of the system. (p.96)
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Recommendation 8:
Index the BC Child Opportunity Benefit to inflation to ensure the value of the benefit does not erode over time.
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Recommendation 2:
Increasing investment in home and community care can help more seniors stay healthy and independent in their homes. Home support services to help with cooking and bathing, home nursing, long-term residential care and end-of-life palliative care are vital for lower-income seniors (mainly women) and will also help people with physical and mental disabilities.
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Recommendation 54:
Increase the province-wide stock of all forms of social housing.
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Recommendation 63:
Increase the number of paid work experience programs that build on youth’s lived expertise. For example, the youth-led “Light the Way Youth Homelessness Conference.”
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Recommendation 13:
Increase program funding and support for families raising children with disabilities and complex medical needs to ensure they have timely, universal access everywhere in BC to a core suite of early intervention therapies; timely assessments; family respite; inclusive child care; health, medical and in-home supports.
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Recommendation 14:
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 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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