942 search results for
Poverty and economic inequality
Recommendation 13:
Utilize BCCSU resources and other relevant tools to establish family support groups across the province.
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Use City powers to impose non-profit management on hotels with outstanding Standards of Maintenance violations, and ensure that tenants have the protection of the Residential Tenancy Act.
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Recommendation 35:
Update the Poverty Reduction Plan to prevent, not “reduce”, dislocation and homelessness
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Recommendation 32:
Universal public healthcare coverage to include supplements, prescriptions, counselling, dental, optical, mobility devices, adaptive equipment, and alternative treatments like acupuncture.
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Recommendation 84:
Universal public healthcare coverage to include supplements, prescriptions, counselling, dental, optical, mobility devices, adaptive equipment, and alternative treatments like acupuncture.
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Recommendation 198:
Universal public healthcare coverage to include supplements, prescriptions, counselling, dental, optical, mobility devices, adaptive equipment, and alternative treatments like acupuncture.
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Recommendation 26:
Ultimately, a systems change approach would need to be applied to adequately address the root causes of these issues. As noted in the Resilient Vancouver Phase One Engagement report (2018), many of these issues are interrelated and solutions need to involve multiple city departments, all levels of government, and other stakeholders.
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Recommendation 46:
Transfer the Child Care Branch from the Ministry of Children and Family Development to the Ministry of Education.
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Train frontline Ministry workers in trauma informed service provision to ensure people who access services are treated with compassion, patience and understanding. The training may include education on mental health related barriers and stigma reduction provided by people with lived or living experience of illness and of accessing assistance.
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Recommendation 129:
Train and hire more Indigenous social workers and ensure that all social workers are culturally-competent, committed to decolonizing practices, have better communication skills, and are educated about and sensitive to the intergenerational trauma of family separation.
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