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Recommendation 15:
There should be a drive for greater gender and racial equity in gallery exhibitions. For instance, a guiding principle might mandate that Black women artists booking a solo exhibition be paid the same rate as the highest paid white man artist. In fact, institutions should recognize that certain communities deserve to be paid more for their time and adopt an equity payscale. This can be considered another form of restitution for historic and ongoing marginalization of Indigenous and Black individuals and communities, which requires more labour to participate in the industry compared to non-Indigenous, white peers.
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Recommendation 1:
The Representative is calling for a special convening of the child-serving systems and the children, youth, families and communities they serve to respond to the cracks in our care system that are contributing to children and youth being pushed and pulled away from the systems of care and being subjected to increased risks of serious incidents or critical injuries and deaths. To address the root systemic and structural causes of children and youth going missing from the child welfare system we need to collectively explore:
- What are the conditions of unbelonging that lead to children becoming lost or missing in the child welfare system?
- How are children’s unmet needs across systems contributing to them going missing?
- How do we align systems of care and protection to respond more effectively and uphold the rights of children who have disappeared in the system?
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- Academic institutions ,
- Faith and cultural groups ,
- First Nations governments ,
- General public ,
- Government of British Columbia ,
- Health authorities ,
- Human rights institutions ,
- Independent offices of the Legislature ,
- Indigenous organizations ,
- Municipal governments ,
- Non-profits and community organizations ,
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Recommendation 15:
The Public Service Agency should commit to hiring more employees of African descent. At the very minimum, it is imperative that a People of African Descent youth internship program be implemented before the end of the Decade to recruit future People of African Descent graduates and undergraduates in jobs showing high demands for qualified workers at all skills levels. The PSA should also commit to support and establish a People of African Descent Leadership program that will provide dedicated mentoring, coaching and career development services to employees of African descent in middle-management positions.
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Recommendation 13:
The PSA should be provided with adequate authority under the race-based data legislation to collect, analyze and publish periodic reports on the number of People of African Descent across the public service and their relative distribution in leadership and strategic positions.
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Recommendation 69:
The Province should work with financial institutions, municipalities, and People of African Descent community groups and housing experts to support the establishment of land trusts, social enterprise housing corporations, and rent-to-own units that will provide credible alternative approaches to house and land ownership, beyond conventional mortgage financing.
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Recommendation 71:
The Province should increase funding for People of African Descent organisations and tenant support agencies to provide free advice on housing investments, and rent support programs targeted at People of African Descent in economic precarity.
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Recommendation 5:
The PHWA illustrates that Western systems must be supportive and culturally safe in order to advance the health of First Nations. To do so, there is a need for unified, coordinated actions across diverse systems and organizations to remove systemic barriers to wellness. In particular, these collaborations must attend to First Nations connection to land, which is a foundation of wellness. We challenge health, social, and environmental sectors to work together in new and innovative ways.
Achieveing the targets set out within the PHWA requires both intra-organizational alignments and inter-organizational collaboration and partnership. First Nations organizations and collectives must continue to pursue alignment and support one another in collective efforts to nourish roots of wellness. BC’s Provincial Government must create internal mechanisms to collaborate effectively between ministries and make efforts to include ministries that influence First Nations’ connection to land.
Achieveing the targets set out within the PHWA requires both intra-organizational alignments and inter-organizational collaboration and partnership. First Nations organizations and collectives must continue to pursue alignment and support one another in collective efforts to nourish roots of wellness. BC’s Provincial Government must create internal mechanisms to collaborate effectively between ministries and make efforts to include ministries that influence First Nations’ connection to land.
- Federal and provincial governments must partner with First Nations organizations and collectives to collaborate efficiently across sectors with the goal of achieving the targets outlined in the PHWA.
- First Nations organizations and collectives and governmental bodies implicated in the following areas are key stakeholders in this intersectoral work: health, education, housing, justice, social development, poverty reduction, natural resources/climate change, economic development, and child welfare.
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Recommendation 83:
The Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Division at the Ministry of Attorney General should acknowledge the multiple People of African Descent identities in BC by clearly emphasizing them in public communication related to the race-based data and the anti-racism legislations. It is also recommended that, in line with the proposed Canadian Institute for People of African Descent (CIPAD), the Province establishes a satellite institute in BC and collaborates with CIPAD, to promote a communal and focused approach to research, advocacy and the setting of priorities for persons and groups of African Descent in BC. This is particularly crucial in ensuring that People of African Descent plurality is adequately represented in diversity training curriculum within public bodies.
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Recommendation 84:
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport should promote the positive contributions that People of African Descent have made, and continue to make, to the advancement of BC. It’s strongly recommended that Black Canadian histories and identities be promoted in schools and across the media through collaborative enhancements of classroom and extracurricular content to promote a reflective, positive immersion into, and familiarization with, People of African Descent histories and cultures. The recent exhibit on BC’s pioneers of African Descent organized by the Black History Awareness Society with support from Digital Museums Canada or the commemorative naming of the Henry Houston Scott Park in Cloverdale, Surrey could serve as models.
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Recommendation 85:
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts, Culture and Sport should collaboratively develop nuanced guidance to media, arts, and cultural program agencies to promote diverse content, multi-racial decision-making teams, and reliable career paths to liberate the glut of underemployed talent residing within the People of African Descent community.
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