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Youth in care
Recommendation 82:
During the pandemic, unemployment has impacted the youth demographic particularly hard and will have long term impacts. The government must develop a strategy to help youth achieve developmental milestones of employment and education.
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Recommendation 9:
Development and cognitive functioning should not prohibit children’s participation in court proceedings, as this denies children their fundamental rights based on perceived functioning and undermines the UNCRC’s recommendations (Grover, 2014; Martinson & Tempesta, 2018). Instead, an empowerment-based approach must be adopted and implemented that promotes, prioritizes, and ensures children’s participation in guardianship and family law proceedings regardless of age or capacity. An empowerment-based approach would be child-centred and incorporate strategies that would ensure children’s participation regardless of age and/or capacity, including legal representation, judicial interviewing, VCRs, and child-inclusive mediation.
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Recommendation 6:
Develop youth-specific emergency housing options in light of COVID-19. These should not be at the same hotels as the adult response and should be tailored to the youth’s unique developmental needs.
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 66:
Develop fun workshops that connect youth to employers and gets employers feeling a sense of responsibility and achievement from employing youth.
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Recommendation 2:
Develop and implement an interim plan to improve the collection of reliable information and data to enable the PDCW to more effectively identify, monitor and respond to children and youth who are lost or missing in B.C.’s child welfare system.
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Recommendation 2:
Develop and build youth-specific housing that includes a variety of accommodations including communal, transitional, supportive, scattered site, and affordable market units. There should be designated low-barrier housing for youth with mental health and substance use concerns, as well as housing for youth who do not use substances. Youth recommend having teachers, nurses, and life-skills workers onsite.
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Recommendation 12:
Develop a Youth Housing Plan for each youth aging out with all the supports youth need to succeed. MCFD should provide one-year of after-care support.
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Recommendation 3:
Develop a Contingency Plan for every youth in care that includes alternative housing options and supports, including considerations and plans based on the youth’s culture.
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 77:
Develop a BC Youth Housing Action Plan that provides a continuum of housing and access to rental subsidies to ensure no young person is left without a home post pandemic.
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Recommendation 33:
Develop a “no wrong door” policy by ensuring all organizations know what resources are available and what youth need supports to ensure no youth falls through the cracks. Mental health organizations should partner with non-profits to provide youth with clinical supports and workshops. There should be one referral document for all services such as the Wrapforce program in Kamloops and the One Door initiative in Kelowna.
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