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Ableism
Recommendation 3:
In order to ensure that all children are granted the right to participate in legal proceedings in Canada, it is critical that all parties take an intersectional approach to understanding children’s rights and needs (Martinson & Raven, 2020a). This means acknowledging the particular nuances of a child’s circumstances and recognising that these may vary on a case-by-case basis. This also requires courts to recognise children’s socio-economic status, gender identity and expression, and differing abilities, amongst other factors (Canadian Coalition on the Rights of Children, 2016; CBA, 2020; Martinson & Raven, 2020a, pp. 22-23). Upholding children’s rights requires the creation of an environment in which all children feel empowered to participate in legal proceedings that affect them, regardless of their circumstances (CBA, 2020).
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- Ableism ,
- Access to justice ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Ageism ,
- Classism ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Homophobia and transphobia ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- International human rights ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system
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Recommendation 7:
In order to ensure high quality and equitable services, there must be ongoing data collection and evaluation. MCFD should engage the Ministry of Citizen Services and relevant ministries and public bodies to develop and implement a plan that enables:
A cross-ministry plan is to be developed by April 1, 2022 with full implementation of that plan to begin thereafter.
- Longitudinal data collection about young people who have aged out of care in British Columbia.
- Evaluation of post-majority services and supports and the public sharing of the evaluation results.
- Standardized data across the province that is reported regularly, including (but not limited to) the following disaggregated data: identity factors such as ethnicity and gender identity as well as indigeneity – First Nations, Métis and Inuit identity.
A cross-ministry plan is to be developed by April 1, 2022 with full implementation of that plan to begin thereafter.
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Recommendation 34:
In its first year in operation, the BC Human Rights Commission should prioritize stigma-auditing areas of law and policy that most directly impact highly stigmatized populations, including, but not limited to:
- public space governance; income assistance and disability policy;
- housing policy and residential tenancy law;
- child welfare law and policy;
- policing law and policy;
- health policy related to mental health and substance use; and
- privacy law as it relates to people who live in public space and people who are criminalized as a result of substance use.
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- Ableism ,
- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Ageism ,
- Classism ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Health ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Income insecurity and benefits ,
- Other ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Privacy ,
- Substance use ,
- Tenancy rights
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Recommendation 6:
In consultation with experts, including human rights law organizations, trauma specialists, and people with lived experience, the Province of British Columbia should adopt a standardized tool and training protocol for conducting “stigma audits” of current laws, policies, and regulations in BC, and to inform the development of new laws, policies, and regulations.
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Recommendation 13:
Implement stigma auditing within all provincial ministries to address stigma in service delivery throughout government.
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Recommendation 34:
Implement name-blind recruiting and hiring practices at both the staff and management levels, and ensure there is no bias, prejudice or discrimination against employees from diverse backgrounds, including Muslim employees, in the entire employment process including onboarding, retention, and promotion.
Islamophobia at Work: Challenges and Opportunities
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Canadian Labour Congress
Canadian Labour Congress
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2019
2019
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Recommendation 13:
Identify an expert who can play a role similar to the Force Options Coordinator in reviewing uses of force against prisoners with mental health disabilities to identify problems and solutions.
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Recommendation 57:
Have senior mental health practitioners review all uses of force against prisoners with mental health disabilities.
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Recommendation 4:
Finally, it is important to establish ongoing systems for monitoring mental health needs and outcomes for all children — to accurately depict the needs over time and to inform the evaluation of initiatives designed to meet these needs. Such efforts should focus first on problems that are expected to increase in the short term including anxiety, depression, behaviour problems and posttraumatic stress — in addition to tracking progress at addressing underlying issues such as socioeconomic disparities. Monitoring could take the form of pragmatic yet robust population-based short surveys conducted in representative samples of children. Our review also suggests that many children who experience mental health problems after disasters eventually recover. So tracking outcomes is also a way of measuring success.
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Recommendation 8:
Expand training on conflict resolution, de-escalation skills, nonviolent crisis intervention and working with people with mental health disabilities. This should be designed in conjunction with mental health experts and people with lived experience.
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