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Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 181: We call upon police services to build partnerships with Métis communities, organizations, and people to ensure culturally safe access to police services.

Distinctions-based calls

Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 182: We call upon police services to engage in education about the unique history and needs of Métis communities.

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Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 183: We call upon police services to establish better communication with Métis communities and populations through representative advisory boards that involve Métis communities and address their needs.

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Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 184: We call upon all governments to fund the expansion of community-based security models that include Métis perspectives and people, such as local peacekeeper officers or programs such as the Bear Clan Patrol.

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Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 185: We call upon all governments to provide support for self-determined and culturally specific needs-based child welfare services for Métis families that are focused on prevention and maintenance of family unity. These services will also focus on: avoiding the need for foster care; restoring family unity and providing support for parents trying to reunite with children; healing for parents; and developing survivor-led programs to improve family safety. These services include culturally grounded parenting education and interventions that support the whole family, such as substance abuse treatment programs that accommodate parents with children and that are specifically suited to Métis needs and realities. We also call upon all governments to provide long-term stable funding for wraparound services and exceptional programs aimed at keeping Métis families together.

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Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 186: We call upon all governments to provide more funding and support for Métis child welfare agencies and for child placements in Métis homes.

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Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 187: We call upon all governments to establish and maintain funding for cultural programming for Métis children in foster care, especially when they are placed in non- Indigenous or non-Métis families.

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Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 188: We call upon all governments to address Métis unemployment and poverty as a way to prevent child apprehension.

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Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 189: We call upon all governments to fund and support programs for Métis women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people, including more access to traditional healing programs, treatment centres for youth, family support and violence prevention funding and initiatives for Métis, and the creation of no-barrier safe spaces, including spaces for Métis mothers and families in need.

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Métis-specific calls for justice

Recommendation 190: We call upon the federal government to recognize and fulfill its obligations to the Métis people in all areas, especially in health, and further call upon all governments for services such as those under FNIHB to be provided to Métis and non-Status First Nations Peoples in an equitable manner consistent with substantive human rights standards.