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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 12:
- Collaboration with and advice to government on:
- Policy changes and coordinated, inter-ministry provincial responses; and
- Promising practices to end youth homelessness including prevention, housing, and support programs.
- Recommendations of financial resources from the provincial government to support local communities housing and support programs to end youth homelessness.
- An implementation plan and process that ensures Youth First Voices, Indigenous Voices and B.C. communities are heard.
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Recommendation 16:
- Collaborate with leaders in youth homelessness such as A Way Home Canada to conduct research, provide training and identify strategic approaches to developing a plan to end youth homelessness.
- Develop a provincial community of practice through support for coordination and information-sharing efforts.
- Be the catalyst to develop a coordinated youth point-in-time count and gather the evidence we need to address the magnitude of the problem.
- Environmental scan of promising practices in B.C.
- Provide a strategy and support for rural and remote communities.
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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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Recommendation 10:
Establish an expert panel of both academic and practice leaders in relational care to help shift assisted living from a philosophy of living at risk to a philosophy of relational care.
This panel’s work should begin with a report for the review process (above) on how to replace Managed Risk Agreements with Relational Care Agreements. Such agreements would acknowledge both the resident’s autonomy and the responsibility of assisted living operators to engage with residents and provide them with the support, education and social connections required to maintain and/or enhance their well-being and autonomy. The report would:
This panel’s work should begin with a report for the review process (above) on how to replace Managed Risk Agreements with Relational Care Agreements. Such agreements would acknowledge both the resident’s autonomy and the responsibility of assisted living operators to engage with residents and provide them with the support, education and social connections required to maintain and/or enhance their well-being and autonomy. The report would:
- Define and apply relational care principles to an assisted living environment;
- Outline a relational-care-planning process to be used with each resident when they enter an assisted living residence and a process for updating it at regular intervals;
- Describe the educational materials and quality-improvement processes needed to support a relational care framework and improve practice over time;
- Include strategies for ensuring that front-line staff and residents, and their family and friends, feel safe and respected in these processes; and
- Recommend how to facilitate the shift to relational care and processes for monitoring progress (i.e., through the inspection processes for assisted living residences).
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