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Health, wellness and services
Recommendation 61:
We call upon all governments and health service providers to ensure that health and wellness services for Indigenous Peoples include supports for healing from all forms of unresolved trauma, including intergenerational, multigenerational, and complex trauma. Health and wellness programs addressing trauma should be Indigenous-led, or in partnership with Indigenous communities, and should not be limited in time or approaches.
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Recommendation 227:
We call upon all governments and health service providers to create roles for Indigenous care workers who would hold the same authority as community mental health nurses and social workers in terms of advocating for 2SLGBTQQIA clients and testifying in court as recognized professionals.
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Recommendation 67:
We call upon all governments and health service providers to create effective and well-funded opportunities, and to provide socio-economic incentives, to encourage Indigenous people to work within the health and wellness field and within their communities. This includes taking positive action to recruit, hire, train, and retain long-term staff and local Indigenous community members for health and wellness services offered in all Indigenous communities.
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Recommendation 214:
We call upon all governments and educators to fund and support specific Knowledge Keeper gatherings on the topic of reclaiming and re-establishing space and community for 2SLGBTQQIA people.
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Recommendation 96:
We call upon all governments and child welfare agencies to fully implement the Spirit Bear Plan.
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Recommendation 138:
We call upon all federal, provincial, and territorial governments to review and amend laws in relation to child and family services to ensure they uphold the rights of Inuit children and families and conform to Inuit laws and values. Inuit parents and guardians must be provided access to Inuit-specific parenting and caregiving teachings and services.
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Recommendation 97:
We call upon all child welfare agencies to establish more rigorous requirements for safety, harm-prevention, and needs-based services within group or care homes, as well as within foster situations, to prevent the recruitment of children in care into the sex industry. We also insist that governments provide appropriate care and services, over the long term, for children who have been exploited or trafficked while in care.
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Recommendation 2:
We call on the Province of British Columbia to link the implementation and monitoring of the Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act with the First Nations PHWA as a way to monitor the impacts of increased self-determination on First Nations roots of wellness and health outcomes.
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Recommendation 13:
We call on the health system to expand on their initial primary care investments and make policy changes to equitably increase access and attachment to culturally safe primary health care services, moving towards team-based models of care that are wholistic and rooted in culture and traditions.
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Recommendation 4:
We call on system partners who possess data that relates to First Nations health and wellness in the broadest sense to uphold First Nations data governance principles to make the data accessible to First Nations and their organizations. Goals of this work include supporting self-determination, Nation-rebuilding, and further development of institutions. FNHA is uniquely positioned to support the data governance of Nations, while providing a strong voice on First Nations population health at the provincial level through a stewardship and Watchmon role.
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