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Children and youth
Recommendation 37:
Increase peer support opportunities and engage youth voice in paid focus groups or online surveys.
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Recommendation 10:
Increase land-based learning, healing, and stewardship opportunities for First Nations children and youth.
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Recommendation 17:
Increase investment in public health initiatives aimed to support maternal and parental health and healthy infant development, as well as non-barriered, free, community-based programs and services for all families with young children to ensure these supports are available throughout the province and designed to reach families experiencing poverty and other threats to their ability to thrive.
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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Recommendation 15:
Increase investment in both capital and operating costs for shelter-rate housing, including through the Empty Homes tax, borrowing, reducing the annual police budget, and taxing homes worth over $5,000,000. Invest specifically in permanent new Indigenous housing. Promote family reunification by providing family-sized, culturally safe units in new permanent shelter-rate and social housing.
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Recommendation 40:
Increase harm reduction services for youth, including appropriate supplies, naloxone kits and training to use safely. In particular, youth in Williams Lake requested harm reduction services.
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Recommendation 46:
Increase funding for the Indigenous Languages Act to preserve, revitalize, and strengthen all Indigenous languages. This should include efforts to hire and accredit language speakers to teach the language as credit courses for Indigenous students.
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Recommendation 30:
Increase funding for permanent new Indigenous housing. Promote family reunification by providing family-sized, culturally-safe units in new permanent shelter-rate and social housing.
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Recommendation 121:
Increase financial amounts provided to caregivers under MCFD’s Home of a Relative program.
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Recommendation 26:
Increase culturally appropriate community based and accessible services for Indigenous people including decolonizing employment, education and life skills training and supports, mental health and substance use, and child and family supports.
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- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Health ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Mental health and detention ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Racism ,
- Substance use
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Recommendation 11:
Increase court oversight of MCFD’s efforts to identify less disruptive measures by adding the following provisions to the CFCSA:
- The court shall not make an order removing the child from the care of a parent or guardian unless the court is satisfied that less disruptive measures, including services to promote the integrity of the family, have been attempted, refused by the parent or would be inadequate to protect the child;
- Where the court determines that it is necessary to remove the child from the care of a parent or guardian, the court shall, before making an order, consider whether it is possible to place the child with a person or group in accordance with the order of preference of placements.
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