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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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Recommendation 28:
Ensuring that people living with disabilities can access disability support by:
- simplifying the application process to reduce wait times and lessen reliance on advocates;
- providing provincial guidelines for doctors/service providers on how and when to fill out disability forms; and
- ensuring that hospital social workers are resourced and directed to work with patients in need to apply for disability benefits.
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Recommendation 1:
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 202:
Ensure timely, culturally safe, and evidence-based mental health and addiction services in the DTES, ranging from prevention, early intervention, treatment, crisis care, home visits, and aftercare.
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Recommendation 5:
Ensure the growth of Black and Indigenous cultural workers into senior positions. Ensure Black and Indigenous staff are given the opportunity to interview for senior positions and foster a practice of hiring from within. Where possible and appropriate provide mentorship to those employees and include explicitly in succession planning.
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Recommendation 205:
Ensure that people with mental health and/or substance use-related disabilities have a means to enforce their human rights related to accessing and maintaining their housing and employment.
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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 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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