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Recommendation 205:
Ensure that people with mental health and/or substance use-related disabilities have a means to enforce their human rights related to accessing and maintaining their housing and employment.
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Recommendation 27:
Ensure that immigration status is not a barrier to social housing
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Recommendation 21:
Ensure schools re-open in September and a plan is in place to ensure classrooms are open for youth in care to attend should a second wave occur.
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Recommendation 20:
Ensure K–12 public education funding is sufficient to mitigate inequities between high- and low-income neighbourhoods, school districts and families and to ensure appropriate inclusion of students with diverse learning needs. This includes enhancing funding to school districts for special education assistants, arts programming, libraries, student support services, and deferred maintenance, among other areas that still require urgent attention in future provincial budgets. Schools need additional funds to implement public health response measures arising from the COVID–19 pandemic.
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 63:
Ensure Internet access, access to technology, and in-person support to those accessing the legal system online.
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Recommendation 30:
Ensure Indigenous mothers are able to maintain an adequate standard of living by raising income assistance and disability rates, ensuring safe and affordable housing, and guaranteeing food and transit allowances. Provide grandparents raising grandchildren, and all kinship care providers, with livable incomes and benefits. Provide income, housing, food, transit and all additional supports to youth transitioning out of government care until the age of 25 years old.
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Recommendation 120:
Ensure families are able to maintain an adequate standard of living by raising income assistance and disability rates, ensuring safe and affordable housing, and guaranteeing food and transit allowances.
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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 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 12:
Endorse the creation of a provincially-recognized best practices process outlining how to involve families affected by substance use disorders, and addressing privacy/confidentiality issues through the provincial expansion of policies like Vancouver Coastal Health’s Family Involvement Policy.
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