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Poverty and economic inequality
Recommendation 16:
Ensure every youth aging out has a SIN card and photo ID. Youth are reporting challenges in accessing ID during the pandemic.
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Recommendation 20:
Ensure each youth has stable income, so they are able to afford housing ongoing.
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Recommendation 7:
Ensure all youth shelters are accessible for youth at this time (many closures reported).
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 9:
Ensure adequate sustainable funding for and equitable access to the full range of evidence-based care delivery options, including nurses, nurse practitioners, home health care providers, and integrated teams which include family members. The goal is optimize access to evidence-based, customized, culturally sensitive, and age appropriate pathways to recovery.
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Recommendation 7:
Enhance Employment Insurance to expand access, duration, and level of benefits to reduce inequity for lower-income workers and prevent and reduce child and family poverty, including establishing a minimum benefit floor.
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:
Engage in proactive education with municipalities to ensure that zoning and regulatory bylaws, and related public consultation processes, do not discriminate based on social condition.
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Engage in formalized, proactive education with professionals in healthcare settings, police, and private service providers (such as landlords and private security companies) to raise awareness of social condition as a prohibited ground of discrimination.
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Recommendation 3:
Engage in an audit of provincial and municipal laws and policies to identify potential discrimination based on social condition.
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Recommendation 1:
Engage in a provincial education campaign to ensure that all people in BC who may suffer discrimination on the basis of social condition, and all people in BC who are prohibited under the Code from discriminating on the basis of social condition are aware of the change.
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Recommendation 2:
Engage community partners in the plan to end youth homelessness.
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