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Accessibility
Recommendation 27:
Youth should be provided access to free family counseling if they want to return home.
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Recommendation 48:
Youth need support in finding purpose, which provides youth with a reason to access substance use support. This may need to be a two-part process with employers willing to support youth to get connected to the community and support resilience in bouncing back.
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Recommendation 42:
Youth need legal prescriptions that are delivered to their home or to organizations to support safe use.
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Recommendation 62:
Youth need job training programs that provide case management, wraparound support, employment certificates, and workshops. There should be Indigenous specific programs.
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Recommendation 55:
Youth need clear pathways to education and increased access to information on how to obtain their education online. If youth don’t find the right resource, this can stop them from applying.
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Recommendation 44:
Youth are recommending that non-profits provide medical detox to youth they are already connected to. In Vancouver, youth suggested that the COVID-19 or Covenant House van could help youth detoxing in community.
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Recommendation 23:
Work with industry to ensure lower income families and youth have access to technology (both hardware and Internet access) so that they are able to apply for financial assistance, learning opportunities and access other supports.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 5:
Work with and fund community organizations that serve CYSN families to develop activity plans for children losing school-based and development-centre-based services.
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Recommendation 1:
We urge the government of BC to support a rights-based framework for survivors of sexual assault by committing to provide dedicated, secure, and sustainable funding for community-based assault crisis response teams and integrated sexual assault clinics across British Columbia. We support the submissions made by VASC and WAVAW and encourage the government of BC to implement their recommendations by way of both an increase in funding and a legislated right to a community-based assault crisis services.
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Recommendation 33:
We call upon the federal, provincial, and territorial governments to recognize as a high priority the need to address and prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD), and to develop, in collaboration with Aboriginal people, FASD preventive programs that can be delivered in a culturally appropriate manner.
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