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Substance use
Recommendation 151:
End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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Recommendation 8:
Empower families by increasing inclusion of and support for family or caregivers of loved ones with substance use disorders. This includes involving families in overdose emergency response planning, local addiction services development, and establishing supports for families provincially to bring their life experiences and knowledge to inform.
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Recommendation 1:
Eliminate stigma by implementing a provincial public awareness campaign to educate all communities on substance use disorders. Families must be consulted in the development of this work.
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Recommendation 6:
Drastically expand permanent parklets, green spaces, hygiene facilities, garbage disposal sites, and other public outdoor amenities such as covered cooking facilities, and cultural programming sites through the DTES, as these are essential public spaces.
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Recommendation 1:
Divest from policing and invest in community-based services, specifically non-police interventions that support people who are impacted by homelessness, toxic drug supply, mental health distress, and those working in informal/grey economies, such as sex work.
Joint Open Letter on Decriminalizing Poverty
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Battered Women’s Support Services, BC Association of People on Methadone, BC Civil Liberties Association, Black Lives Matter – Vancouver, Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity, Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Defund 604 Network, Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, Hogan’s Alley Society, Metro Vancouver Consortium, Overdose Prevention Society, PACE Society, Pivot Legal Society, Restoring Collective, Sanctuary Health, SWAN Vancouver, Tenant Overdose Response Organizers, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, WePress, WISH Drop-In Centre Society
Battered Women’s Support Services, BC Association of People on Methadone, BC Civil Liberties Association, Black Lives Matter – Vancouver, Centre for Gender & Sexual Health Equity, Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Defund 604 Network, Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, Hogan’s Alley Society, Metro Vancouver Consortium, Overdose Prevention Society, PACE Society, Pivot Legal Society, Restoring Collective, Sanctuary Health, SWAN Vancouver, Tenant Overdose Response Organizers, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, WePress, WISH Drop-In Centre Society
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2021
2021
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- Accessibility ,
- Accessible services and technology ,
- Alternative solutions ,
- Classism ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Health ,
- Housing and homelessness ,
- Mental health and detention ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Public services ,
- Substance use ,
- Workers’ rights
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Recommendation 3:
Develop strong networking opportunities with the Vancouver Island Tribal Groups to better address the high number of individuals who identify as having Vancouver-Island ancestry.
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Recommendation 2:
Develop and build youth-specific housing that includes a variety of accommodations including communal, transitional, supportive, scattered site, and affordable market units. There should be designated low-barrier housing for youth with mental health and substance use concerns, as well as housing for youth who do not use substances. Youth recommend having teachers, nurses, and life-skills workers onsite.
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Recommendation 2:
Develop a Métis Mental Health and Wellness Action Plan to improve mental wellness, reduce problematic substance use, and address the harmful effects of colonialism, assimilation attempts, and the residential school system.
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Recommendation 2:
Defund City Engineering & Police Budgets and redirect funds currently allocated to Street Sweeps, in order to redistribute resources and funds for cleaning to local organizations and individuals who reside in affected areas.
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Recommendation 204:
Declare the opioid crisis a national public health emergency that disproportionately impacts Indigenous women, and expand funding for immediate health-based solutions for the opioid crisis that focus on the specific needs of Indigenous women. This includes:
- Full spectrum of recovery supports including immediate access to Indigenous women’s detox-on-demand and treatment centres.
- Indigenous-run treatment centres that use culture as treatment with Indigenous healing methods and land-based practices.
- More indoor overdose prevention sites and consumption sites, including culturally safe sites for Indigenous women only.
- Decriminalization and access to safer drug supply.
- Opioid-assisted therapy programs and full spectrum of substitution treatment options.
- Longer-term funding for range of culturally safe treatment programs.
- Provincial regulation and oversight over all recovery programs and facilities.
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