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Recommendation 6:
Develop a provincial plan to end youth homelessness that includes community actions to drive change.
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Recommendation 2:
Create cross-sector collaboration to ensure adequate data collection related to women experiencing homelessness and the ability for knowledge sharing.
- Women are more likely to be a part of the invisible population of those who experience homelessness, which has resulted in an inaccurate estimation of how many women experience homelessness in our province.
- Cross-sector organization will promote more accurate data collection as a result of increased awareness through knowledge sharing.
- Connections between sectors can use the strengths of each sector to help limit barriers to housing by creating more efficient systems.
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Recommendation 8:
Conduct research and complete environmental scans of current services and promising practices.
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Recommendation 69:
We call upon Library and Archives Canada to:
- Fully adopt and implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations Joinet-Orentlicher Principles, as related to Aboriginal peoples’ inalienable right to know the truth about what happened and why, with regard to human rights violations committed against them in the residential schools.
- Ensure that its record holdings related to residential schools are accessible to the public.
- Commit more resources to its public education materials and programming on residential schools.
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Recommendation 8:
Children’s rights, participation, welfare, and best interests are unquestionably interlinked. Children are persons with their own legal rights and must be guaranteed the right to participate in guardianship and family law proceedings (Grover, 2015; Martinson & Tempesta, 2018). Children’s rights to participate are in line with the UNCRC’s recommendations and FLA’s best interests provisions (Dundee, 2016), and work to safeguard and prioritize children’s voices and preferences about their own well-being.
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Recommendation 4:
Create education materials and training:
- For Indigenous Peoples, about the Code and BCHRT processes;
- Within the BCHRT, to develop cultural competency and safety among BCHRT staff and tribunal members;
- For the general public, through a proactive campaign to highlight specific areas of discrimination faced by Indigenous Peoples.
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Recommendation 18:
BC government and MCFD to ensure that children are provided with services while the family navigates the process and develop a consistent mechanism for repaying costs for services provided in the interim
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Recommendation 17:
Create a public education campaign for Indigenous Peoples which addresses human rights from an Indigenous perspective:
- Make materials easily accessible at Band offices, Métis organizations, Friendship Centres, Indigenous political organizations, and universities.
- Emphasize cases where Indigenous individuals have successfully brought human rights claims.
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Recommendation 132:
An independent and external process for complaints, oversight, and accountability for MCFD neglect investigations, decisions to apprehend children, and for deaths of children and youth in government care.
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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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