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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 ,
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- Racism
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Recommendation 9: Women experiencing domestic violence should be supported by community based victim services, transition houses, counselling, and supports that are accessible to women with disabilities, including mothers and their children.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
Year:
2014
2014
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Recommendation 3: When counselling is mandated in order for parents to keep or have their children returned from care, MCFD should ensure that counselling is meaningfully available to parents with disabilities. This must include providing sign language interpreters for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
Group/author:
West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
Year:
2014
2014
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Recommendation 24: When a woman is unable to become pregnant due to a disability, she should have access to publicly funded assisted reproductive technologies.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
Group/author:
West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
Year:
2014
2014
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Recommendation 4: These examples indicate a need for there to be an explicit legal obligation on the Ministry to actively consider placing the child with extended family members or returning the child to the parent. The federal standard, as set out in Bill C-92, requires that a reassessment of available alternative placements is “conducted on an ongoing basis.”
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Recommendation 6: There should also be a requirement that the Ministry respond to alternative proposals by parents, Nations, and community-based organizations that support the parent. The Yellowhead Institute recommends that the legislation include “affidavit evidence from the Indigenous group that there is no available placement.
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Recommendation 31: The provincial government must immediately raise welfare and disability rates to the Market Basket Measure (MBM), index them to the cost of living, and remove arbitrary barriers.
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Recommendation 23: The Province should make contraception widely and freely available for all people in British Columbia. At the very least, government must reinstate funding for IUDs for women with disabilities.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
Group/author:
West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
Year:
2014
2014
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Recommendation 25: The Province should begin drafting legislation to regulate assisted reproductive technologies in BC, in consultation with key stakeholders — including people with disabilities. Non-discrimination and the protection and promotion of human health, safety, dignity, diversity and rights should be key principles underlying the legislation.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
Group/author:
West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
Year:
2014
2014
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Recommendation 46: The policy should set out a strategy for expediting criminal checks so that no child’s placement is delayed because of a criminal record check.
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