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Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Recommendation 33:
Provide a free transit pass for children ages 0-18 years old, all youth transitioning out of government care till age 25 years old, and for all adults on pensions, income assistance, and disability assistance.
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Recommendation 25:
Provide a free medical accompaniment program where women are guaranteed rides and an accompaniment advocate for all medical appointments.
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Recommendation 117:
Prohibit the placement of Indigenous children into non-Indigenous foster and adoptive families, and regularly report on how many Indigenous children are in government care and how many are being placed in non-Indigenous homes.
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Recommendation 164:
Prioritize funding to train Indigenous legal advocates, court workers, and lawyers including through increased funding and capacity for Indigenous court worker programs and initiatives under the Indigenous Justice Program.
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Recommendation 192:
Opportunities for urban Indigenous women to learn traditional and land-based healing practices and develop peer-based holistic health support programs and activities such as regular opportunities to go canoeing, pick medicines, and harvest foods.
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Recommendation 100:
Open more transition homes and low-barrier shelters that are for Indigenous women only.
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Recommendation 69:
No reduction of welfare for families in cases of child apprehension, so that income support and housing is maintained while mothers are in the process of getting their children back.
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Recommendation 201:
More mobile healthcare vans and community-based clinics, street nurses, and healthcare providers in the DTES.
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Recommendation 193:
More Indigenous patient navigators and Indigenous medicine people in hospitals to bridge between Indigenous patients and the Western medical system.
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Recommendation 194:
More Indigenous healing spaces and sacred spaces in hospitals and hospices.
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