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BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
Recommendation 63:
Increase the number of paid work experience programs that build on youth’s lived expertise. For example, the youth-led “Light the Way Youth Homelessness Conference.”
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Recommendation 37:
Increase peer support opportunities and engage youth voice in paid focus groups or online surveys.
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Recommendation 40:
Increase harm reduction services for youth, including appropriate supplies, naloxone kits and training to use safely. In particular, youth in Williams Lake requested harm reduction services.
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Recommendation 11:
Increase access to shelters and provide youth with a safe place to be all night, especially if a second wave of COVID-19 hits. Youth recommend integrating places to isolate within youth shelters.
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Recommendation 59:
If there is a second wave, there needs to be increased education on how the CERB works and who is eligible for it. There should be designated financial supports for youth with disabilities or young people who are working part-time.
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Recommendation 9:
Identify, implement and sustain effective services and promising practices related to the prevention and ending of youth homelessness:
- Prevention and early intervention;
- Housing;
- and Supports and services.
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Recommendation 49:
Government needs to help reduce stigma for youth. Community needs to be supportive of youth who are facing increases in substance use and understand why people may have spent CERB on substances instead of punishing people.
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Recommendation 72:
Funding for staff development and wellness to ensure frontline staff are taken care of.
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Recommendation 29:
Free counseling should be provided to all youth and should be available on-line and inperson. Youth recommend providing young people with a choice in their counselor.
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Recommendation 26:
Family supports should be identified via eco-mapping and there should be planned visits that maintain that connection.
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