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Youth in care
Recommendation 21:
Ensure schools re-open in September and a plan is in place to ensure classrooms are open for youth in care to attend should a second wave occur.
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Recommendation 30:
Ensure Indigenous mothers are able to maintain an adequate standard of living by raising income assistance and disability rates, ensuring safe and affordable housing, and guaranteeing food and transit allowances. Provide grandparents raising grandchildren, and all kinship care providers, with livable incomes and benefits. Provide income, housing, food, transit and all additional supports to youth transitioning out of government care until the age of 25 years old.
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Recommendation 16:
Ensure every youth aging out has a SIN card and photo ID. Youth are reporting challenges in accessing ID during the pandemic.
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Recommendation 20:
Ensure each youth has stable income, so they are able to afford housing ongoing.
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Recommendation 7:
Ensure all youth shelters are accessible for youth at this time (many closures reported).
COVID-19 & Youth Homelessness Special Report
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BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
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2020
2020
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Recommendation 124:
Enforce the Ministry mandate of supporting—not surveiling—families. Voluntary disclosures of personal information in order to seek support must not be used as a reason to remove children.
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Recommendation 115:
End the apprehension of Indigenous children due to poverty or Eurocentric ideas of neglect that stem from a legacy of colonization. Poverty must not be conflated with neglect or mistreatment, and removing children from their families exacerbates cycles of trauma and poverty.
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Recommendation 43:
End the apprehension of Indigenous children due to poverty or Eurocentric ideas of neglect that stem from a legacy of colonization.
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Recommendation 6:
End the apprehension of Indigenous children and prohibit the placement of Indigenous children into non-Indigenous foster and adoptive families.
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Recommendation 54:
Education should be subsidized and the province should provide opportunities for project-based learning and apprenticeships. Youth recommend having basic education courses online to support literacy and numeracy development.
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