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Children and youth
Recommendation 13:
Increased flexibility around the timeline when a youth needs to leave care. There should be no hard and fast deadlines or cut-off because a youth is nineteen. Youth are facing extraordinary challenges in transition planning, so need time to secure permanent housing.
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Recommendation 67:
Increased and sustained funding to manage additional expenditures of housing and supporting youth. Funding for wages should be adequate, so organizations are able to hire qualified and trained staff to offer meaningful support to youth.
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Recommendation 80:
Increase youth’s safety and security around online activities to mitigate risks of exploitation and online bullying.
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Recommendation 10:
Increase youth’s access to housing-focused workshops that assist them in learning about their rights and responsibilities. For example, the Rent Smart Workshop.
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Recommendation 47:
Increase the universal Fee Reduction Initiative with a cap on fees and expand the number of $10-a-day prototype sites.
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Recommendation 63:
Increase the number of paid work experience programs that build on youth’s lived expertise. For example, the youth-led “Light the Way Youth Homelessness Conference.”
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Recommendation 127:
Increase the number of culturally appropriate family liaison workers and parenting supports.
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Recommendation 175:
Increase supports for Indigenous women on conditional release, particularly through income assistance, employment, counselling, and child care. Permit conditional release options that facilitate Indigenous women to be housed with their children.
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Recommendation 1:
Increase supply of appropriate and affordable housing for women and their children who have experienced violence.
- There is an immediate need for more housing to reduce the bottleneck within VAW services.
- The inability to secure long-term housing has perpetuated a cycle of violence against women and their children.
- The need for housing is province-wide and uniquely experienced based on location.
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Recommendation 16:
Increase program funding and support for families raising children with disabilities and complex medical needs to ensure they have timely, universal access everywhere in BC to a core suite of early intervention therapies; timely assessments; family respite; inclusive child care; health, medical and in-home supports.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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