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Recommendation 4:
We call upon the federal government to enact Aboriginal child-welfare legislation that establishes national standards for Aboriginal child apprehension and custody cases and includes principles that:
- Affirm the right of Aboriginal governments to establish and maintain their own child-welfare agencies.
- Require all child-welfare agencies and courts to take the residential school legacy into account in their decision making.
- Establish, as an important priority, a requirement that placements of Aboriginal children into temporary and permanent care be culturally appropriate.
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Recommendation 10:
Establish a BC Provincial Plan to End Youth Homelessness that is developed and endorsed by Youth First Voices, Indigenous Voices, community stakeholders and governments.
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Recommendation 7:
Establish a BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness and a community of practice (CoP) on youth homelessness.
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Ensure Youth First Voices and Indigenous Voices have a lead role in the development of a provincial plan to end youth homelessness in British Columbia.
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Recommendation 5:
Ensure government is an active and informed participant in the development of a provincial plan to end youth homelessness.
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Recommendation 2:
Engage in formalized, proactive education with professionals in healthcare settings, police, and private service providers (such as landlords and private security companies) to raise awareness of social condition as a prohibited ground of discrimination.
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Engage in a provincial education campaign to ensure that all people in BC who may suffer discrimination on the basis of social condition, and all people in BC who are prohibited under the Code from discriminating on the basis of social condition are aware of the change.
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Engage community partners in the plan to end youth homelessness.
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Recommendation 3:
Engage and work collaboratively with other programs and initiatives involved in addressing youth homelessness in Canada and BC.
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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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