The BC Poverty Reduction Coalition’s “Blueprint for Justice” released in 2020 describes how the COVID-19 pandemic has magnified existing inequities and revealed the depth and breadth of the durable policy and investments needed to truly reduce poverty and inequality in B.C. It describes the concrete actions needed to ensure nobody is left behind during the pandemic and beyond it, centering its recommendations on four principles: economic security, universal basic services, equity and climate justice. The full blueprint can be found here.
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Recommendation 60: Provide mandatory training to ensure all practitioners providing legal aid are trained in trauma-informed, culturally safe practises that include power analysis and gender-based violence training.-
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Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 61: Increase funding for family law legal aid, raise the income cut-off for eligibility, and significantly increase the number of hours available per case.-
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Recommendation 62: Increase funding to the Human Rights Tribunal to stop extensive delays and restore service levels.Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 63: Ensure Internet access, access to technology, and in-person support to those accessing the legal system online.Universal basic services
Democracy and legal services
Recommendation 64: Apply a gender-based analysis lens (GBA+) to all legal aid funding in BC.Universal basic services
Transportation
Recommendation 68: Apply an equity lens to all provincial, regional, and municipal transportation planning to ensure all forms of transportation infrastructure are affordable, accessible, and safe for at-risk and low-income community members.-
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Economic security
Extreme poverty and homelessness
Recommendation 71: Prioritize poverty reduction strategies that target those who have a higher risk of living in poverty due to intersectional disadvantage. This includes women, single senior women, single parents, Indigenous and racialized communities, immigrants and refugees, those engaged in survival sex work and other work in grey economies, LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, those living with disabilities (taking into consideration the diverse needs of those with both short and long-term disability needs), those with mental health challenges, and those with substance-use disorders.-
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