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Children and youth
Recommendation 131:
Require that all child welfare decision makers and courts must mandatorily consider the impact of the residential school experience on children and their caregivers.
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Recommendation 72:
Remove the age cap and the two-year eligibility requirement for income assistance for the Tuition Waiver Program for youth aging out of care.
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Recommendation 40:
Reduce tuition fees by 50% and increase the availability of non-repayable post-secondary bursaries and grants for low-income students.
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Recommendation 134:
Redirect growing municipal, provincial, and federal police and prison budgets towards solutions that increase safety for Indigenous women such as more housing, child care, income, healthcare, mental health and addictions services, and healing supports.
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Recommendation 77:
Rectify Indigenous women’s exclusion from the economy by:
- Developing equitable and inclusive hiring policy and standards.
- Creating a diversity of low-barrier jobs in the DTES with priority hiring and support for Indigenous women of the community.
- Creating peer-based employment programs including navigation positions throughout the housing, mental health, substance use, and income support systems.
- Ensuring Indigenous women peer workers are paid a living wage, have full benefits, and have the right to unionization.
- Creating jobs that value and compensate skills such as weaving, beading, drum making, food harvesting, and traditional healing, and support the creation of an Indigenous women’s cooperative in the DTES.
- Improving employment supports and workplace accommodations for Indigenous women who are single parents and/or in recovery to ensure that they are not setup to fail in their employment due to systemic barriers.
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- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Health ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public education and reconciliation ,
- Public services ,
- Substance use ,
- Workers’ rights
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Recommendation 5:
Recommends that Canadian legislation mimic the language of the US Indian Child Welfare Act, which requires evidence that social workers have made “active efforts” that “proved unsuccessful.
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Recommendation 191:
Recognize Indigenous healing practices and have more health professionals trained in Indigenous health practices. Recognize the role of Indigenous reproductive and birthing knowledge, including ceremonies related to healthy sexual development.
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Recommendation 1:
Rapidly develop and roll out a plain-language communication strategy for MCFD, modelled on the family-engaged model used by Community Living BC during the initial months of the pandemic.
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Recommendation 11:
Provincial policy and resources to prevent and end youth homelessness; inter-ministry coordination and community collaboration to prevent and end youth homelessness; and end youth homelessness and ensure immediate responses to youth at risk of homelessness.
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Recommendation 9:
Provide youth with rental subsidies and financial supports that bridge the affordability gap into market housing. The temporary COVID-19 measures should be transitioned into permanent supports such as a universal basic income.
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