Project goals

Recommendation 1: Ensure Youth First Voices and Indigenous Voices have a lead role in the development of a provincial plan to end youth homelessness in British Columbia.

Project outcomes

Short-term outcomes

Recommendation 10: Establish a BC Provincial Plan to End Youth Homelessness that is developed and endorsed by Youth First Voices, Indigenous Voices, community stakeholders and governments.

What commitments and strategies would a Provincial Plan include?

A commitment of provincial government responsibility to end youth homelessness

Recommendation 12:

• Collaboration with and advice to government on:
  
  
  • Policy changes and coordinated, inter-ministry provincial responses; and
  • Promising practices to end youth homelessness including prevention, housing, and support programs.
• Recommendations of financial resources from the provincial government to support local communities housing and support programs to end youth homelessness.
• An implementation plan and process that ensures Youth First Voices, Indigenous Voices and B.C. communities are heard.

What commitments and strategies would a Provincial Plan include?

A strategy for supports to end youth homelessness

Recommendation 15:

• Ensures an Indigenous lens and leadership role in developing a culturally responsive plan to support Indigenous programs and governments.
• Ensure adequate mental health, substance-use, life-skills, employment and education supports for youth.
• A strategy to incentivize coordinated supports at local levels.