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Service gaps and barriers

Recommendation 31: All government actors and health care providers must recognize the specific and indispensable expertise of people with lived experience. Increase peer-run and peer-delivered services and peer-support positions within government services by:

  • developing a provincial advisory board of people with lived experience of homelessness for BC Housing;
  • establishing provincial best practices for engaging people with lived experience of poverty, homelessness, and substance use in service delivery modelled on GIPA (Greater Involvement of People living with HIV/AIDS), MIPA (Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV), and NAUWU (Nothing About Us Without Us) principles;
  • collaborating with peer-led organizations to audit all provincial services (hospital, health, income assistance, shelter, housing) to identify and fund opportunities for peer engagement in service provision and planning; and
  • developing a model for peer-involvement in the design and execution of homeless counts.


Operationalizing stigma-auditing

Recommendation 34: In its first year in operation, the BC Human Rights Commission should prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations, including, but not limited to:

  • public space governance;
    • income assistance and disability policy;
  • housing policy and residential tenancy law;
  • child welfare law and policy;
  • policing law and policy;
  • health policy related to mental health and substance use; and
  • privacy law as it relates to people who live in public space and people who are criminalized as a result of substance use.


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