235 search results for
Housing and homelessness
Recommendation 8:
A Provincial Policy detailing people’s right to privacy in tents and informal living structures akin to the right to privacy in private residences.
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Recommendation 96:
A minimum of 30 percent of all units funded by the current National Housing Strategy and the various Building BC Housing Funds must be designated to Indigenous women and families, and be operated by Indigenous housing providers.
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Recommendation 1:
A BC Youth Housing Action Plan that outlines priority actions and promising models of housing that will be the foundation of a provincial plan to end youth homelessness.
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Recommendation 5:
Conduct a peer-led stigma audit to specifically review the operations of City Engineering Services to identify instances of potential discrimination on the basis of social condition.
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Recommendation 13:
- To meet the needs of youth, communities should be supported to develop an array of housing options. This includes: emergency housing, stabilization housing, mentorship programs, transition housing, scattered site units, private market housing, and access to subsidized market housing.
- Articulate the support needs of youth housing programs in B.C. Housing supports should include: therapy for trauma related to physical and sexualized violence, mental health and substance-use treatment and counseling, life-skills, outreach, health, sexuality, recreation, cultural, education, employment, and peer support.
- Provincial targets and bench-marks such as number of housing units needed.
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Recommendation 21:
- Support the parents’ reintegration after incarceration (reintegration planning, housing at point of release, access to financial assistance, etc.) and provide support for family issues.
- Involve children’s families and caregivers in the planning of the parent’s release and return to the community.
- Work collaboratively with families to ensure a smooth transition of the incarcerated parent from custody to the community.
- Expand family contacts and increase family involvement in preparation for the parents’ release. Design and implement pre- and post-release reintegration programs that take into account the specific needs of individuals resuming their parental role in the community.
- Ensure that decisions regarding early release of incarcerated parents take into account their parental responsibilities, as well as their specific family reintegration needs and issues.
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
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Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2018
2018
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Recommendation 15:
- Ensures an Indigenous lens and leadership role in developing a culturally responsive plan to support Indigenous programs and governments.
- Ensure adequate mental health, substance-use, life-skills, employment and education supports for youth.
- A strategy to incentivize coordinated supports at local levels.
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Recommendation 12:
- Collaboration with and advice to government on:
- Policy changes and coordinated, inter-ministry provincial responses; and
- Promising practices to end youth homelessness including prevention, housing, and support programs.
- Recommendations of financial resources from the provincial government to support local communities housing and support programs to end youth homelessness.
- An implementation plan and process that ensures Youth First Voices, Indigenous Voices and B.C. communities are heard.
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Recommendation 16:
- Collaborate with leaders in youth homelessness such as A Way Home Canada to conduct research, provide training and identify strategic approaches to developing a plan to end youth homelessness.
- Develop a provincial community of practice through support for coordination and information-sharing efforts.
- Be the catalyst to develop a coordinated youth point-in-time count and gather the evidence we need to address the magnitude of the problem.
- Environmental scan of promising practices in B.C.
- Provide a strategy and support for rural and remote communities.
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Recommendation 14:
- Assess current access statistics and ensure timely access to specialized therapy and victim services for children and youth who experience physical and sexualized violence, and other childhood experiences associated with later youth homelessness.
- Explore the concept of “duty to assist” as a rights-based approach to ending youth homelessness; investigate prevention legislation such as in Wales where there can be a duty to assist youth, likely to be homeless within 56 days, to secure accommodations.
- Prevent youth homelessness by reducing system discharges into homelessness by coordinating ministries at the provincial level and by bridging transitions from foster-care/provincial care, justice, hospitals, treatment facilities, and mental-health systems.
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