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Accessible services and technology
Recommendation 64:
Restructure the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction, including:
- Bringing back individual caseworkers and timely individualized assistance.
- Ensuring there are computers and Ministry support staff at every Ministry office for the purpose of helping applicants.
- Modifying the online application for income assistance so that it is not mandatory to create an email address and BCelD.
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Recommendation 4:
Relevant public bodies should continue to build additional affordable housing that offers a flexible and progressive range of supports, specifically designed for people with mental health or substance userelated disabilities. For example, a person should have the option to move from a group home with onsite staff to an apartment managed by a local mental health non-profit as their health and if they chose to do so.
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Rapidly develop and roll out a plain-language communication strategy for MCFD, modelled on the family-engaged model used by Community Living BC during the initial months of the pandemic.
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Recommendation 23:
Provide youth with ongoing training around technology, so they are able to use it safely to maintain social connections and are able to protect themselves from online bullying or trafficking.
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Recommendation 34:
Provide youth with in-house mental health and cognitive assessments, so they are able to access CLBC and other supports in a timely manner.
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Recommendation 53:
Provide youth with appropriate technology to do school including devices, Wi-Fi, and a quiet space to study. Interactive learning should be supported to keep youth engaged.
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Recommendation 46:
Provide youth with access to treatment and abstinence-based programs. Ensure they have support workers that can help advocate and transport them to detox or treatment.
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Recommendation 45:
Provide youth with access to in-house substance use counselors and face to face NA/AA meetings. Some youth are not able to access the online meetings or they don’t work for them. Youth benefit from peer-based knowledge groups to de-stigmatize substance use.
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Recommendation 1:
Provide reliable technology to all youth in need. Technology for all youth needs to be seen as a basic need and high priority at this time. The inequities in access to technology are resulting in increased disparity in access to education—and potentially life-saving support to vulnerable youth. Youth need access to internet, cell-phones, laptops, and printers in order to have equal access to education and supports.
COVID-19 & Youth Homelessness Special Report
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BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
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2020
2020
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Recommendation 56:
Provide increased access to post-secondary scholarships and bursaries. Youth report a need for support to be available to youth who are waiting for Canadian status.
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