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Recommendation 110:
All levels of government must buy or lease SRO hotels to prevent them from gentrifying and pushing out low-income residents.
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Recommendation 180:
All levels of government must acknowledge that the current state of Indigenous women’s health is a direct result of colonialism and government policies.
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Recommendation 36:
All levels of government and police forces must end the criminalization of Indigenous peoples who are asserting their jurisdiction and rights to lands and resources.
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Recommendation 2:
All levels of Canadian government, national aboriginal organizations, and nonprofit agencies must ensure the active leadership of Indigenous women in the design, implementation, and review of programs and policies that are directed to increase the safety of Indigenous women. Strengthen and support solutions that restore the role of Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people as Title-holders of their lands, traditional knowledge keepers, sacred life-givers, and matriarchs within extended kinship networks.
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Recommendation 31:
All government actors and health care providers must recognize the specific and indispensable expertise of people with lived experience. Increase peer-run and peer-delivered services and peer-support positions within government services by:
- developing a provincial advisory board of people with lived experience of homelessness for BC Housing;
- establishing provincial best practices for engaging people with lived experience of poverty, homelessness, and substance use in service delivery modelled on GIPA (Greater Involvement of People living with HIV/AIDS), MIPA (Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV), and NAUWU (Nothing About Us Without Us) principles;
- collaborating with peer-led organizations to audit all provincial services (hospital, health, income assistance, shelter, housing) to identify and fund opportunities for peer engagement in service provision and planning; and
- developing a model for peer-involvement in the design and execution of homeless counts.
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Recommendation 37:
All Canadian and Aboriginal governments must ensure that Indigenous women are engaged fully and have equitable access to decision-making on issues of governance, land, culture, language, housing, child care, income security, employment, education, health, and other areas impacting Indigenous women.
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- Culture and language ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Education and employment ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Representation and leadership ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 17:
Aggressively lobby the provincial government to raise welfare to the Federal government’s Market Basket Measure (about $1,675 a month for a single person in 2017) and implement rent control so that any social assistance increase does not go directly to landlords.
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Recommendation 23:
Agencies working directly or indirectly with offenders and their children/families should receive training to ensure that children affected by their parents’ conflict with the law are treated sensitively and that assistance is provided to the children, the offenders, and their family to develop or maintain healthy relationships.
- Provide training on child-related policies, practices and procedures, for all correctional staff in contact with children and their parents serving a prison sentence and/or a community-based sentence.
- Provide training for organization staff who come into contact with children and their imprisoned parents in areas such as the children’s needs and rights, the impact of imprisonment on the children, or how to support imprisoned parents, their children and their families.
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
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Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2018
2018
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Recommendation 88:
Adoption of low-income customer rates and rules by BC Hydro and all energy providers including waiver of security deposits, late payment fees, and reconnection fees; more flexible payment arrangements; and suspension of disconnections during cold weather and for people with medical conditions.
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Recommendation 25:
Adopt cultural competency training requirements and establish cultural safety, decolonizing and anti racist policy standards for provincial officials, local decision makers including property owners (landlords), private sector employers, social workers, and others in order to increase awareness of the historical and current impacts of colonization.
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