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Experiences of mental health challenges
Recommendation 3:
Amending the Police Act to expand the mandate of the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner (OPCC) in order to:
- ensure that all police officers and forces operating in BC fall under the mandate of the OPCC;
- ensure that civilian investigators and civilian staff members are responsible for the entirety of the complaint resolution process; and
- allow the OPCC to audit police complaints each year, particularly where they involve discrimination based on race, gender, poverty, or health status, and publicly report on areas of concern for further investigation or reform.
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Recommendation 58:
Amend policy so that only healthcare staff can authorize and manage interventions to address self-harm and suicidality, including suicide smocks, observation cells and and Pinel restraints based on clinical need. Pinel restraints should only be used in psychiatric facilities.
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Recommendation 2:
Alternatively, the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions should establish an independent Mental Health Advocate to monitor the performance of public services that impact people with mental health and substance use-related health issues, receive and act on systemic disability related complaints and protect the human rights of people living with illness who access services.
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Recommendation 5:
All government actors and health care providers must recognize the specific and indispensable expertise of people with lived experience. Increase peer-run and peer-delivered services and peer-support positions within government services by:
- developing a provincial advisory board of people with lived experience of homelessness for BC Housing;
- establishing provincial best practices for engaging people with lived experience of poverty, homelessness, and substance use in service delivery modelled on GIPA (Greater Involvement of People living with HIV/AIDS), MIPA (Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV), and NAUWU (Nothing About Us Without Us) principles;
- collaborating with peer-led organizations to audit all provincial services (hospital, health, income assistance, shelter, housing) to identify and fund opportunities for peer engagement in service provision and planning; and
- developing a model for peer-involvement in the design and execution of homeless counts.
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Recommendation 17:
All CLBC and Mental health assessments must be completed prior to youth aging out. Youth report delays on receiving assessments during the pandemic, which will affect the level of support they receive in the future.
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Recommendation 29:
Adopt a trauma-informed practice overall, including for assessing and accommodating delays or requests for extensions. The BCHRT staff and tribunal members should be provided with training on how trauma may impact Indigenous Peoples’ actions or interactions within the BCHRT system.
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Recommendation 13:
- To meet the needs of youth, communities should be supported to develop an array of housing options. This includes: emergency housing, stabilization housing, mentorship programs, transition housing, scattered site units, private market housing, and access to subsidized market housing.
- Articulate the support needs of youth housing programs in B.C. Housing supports should include: therapy for trauma related to physical and sexualized violence, mental health and substance-use treatment and counseling, life-skills, outreach, health, sexuality, recreation, cultural, education, employment, and peer support.
- Provincial targets and bench-marks such as number of housing units needed.
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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.
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Recommendation 14:
- Assess current access statistics and ensure timely access to specialized therapy and victim services for children and youth who experience physical and sexualized violence, and other childhood experiences associated with later youth homelessness.
- Explore the concept of “duty to assist” as a rights-based approach to ending youth homelessness; investigate prevention legislation such as in Wales where there can be a duty to assist youth, likely to be homeless within 56 days, to secure accommodations.
- Prevent youth homelessness by reducing system discharges into homelessness by coordinating ministries at the provincial level and by bridging transitions from foster-care/provincial care, justice, hospitals, treatment facilities, and mental-health systems.
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