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Recommendation 12:
The Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction should include mental health and substance use-related accommodations in accessibility guidelines given to WorkBC service providers such as varying levels of privacy and openness in waiting or self-serve areas, flexibility in pace and frequency of programs, and mental health literacy training for all staff.
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Recommendation 3:
The Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction should ensure that its commitment to develop and pass comprehensive accessibility legislation will go beyond physical notions of accessibility and ensure that people with invisible disabilities, in particular people with mental health or substance use-related disabilities, can fully participate in their communities.
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Recommendation 10:
The Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction should align the provision of WorkBC’s customized employment (CE) program with the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) model that prioritizes strengths-based, rapid job search and placement, and reduce barriers to entering the program for people living with mental health or substance userelated disabilities, such as repeat information gathering and skills assessments.
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Recommendation 3:
The Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction must make immediate changes to BC’s Income Assistance and Disability Assistance programs including:
- increasing income assistance rates to the Market Basket Measure and indexing them to inflation;
- reviewing the processes that are currently in place for reporting “welfare fraud” to provide greater accountability and ensure that people receiving income assistance are not denied survival income without due process;
- increasing access to in-person services for income assistance and disability applicants; and d. ensuring that people living with disabilities can access disability support by:
- simplifying the application process to reduce wait times and lessen reliance on advocates;
- providing provincial guidelines for doctors/service providers on how and when to fill out disability forms; and
- ensuring that hospital social workers are resourced and directed to work with patients in need to apply for disability benefits.
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Recommendation 8:
The Ministry of Public Safety should work with major police forces around the province to fund a study of underlying causes of apprehensions of People of African Descent towards joining the police services, and how to mitigate them.
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Recommendation 9:
The Ministry of Public Safety should fund efforts by officers of African Descent to build solidarity amongst themselves and establish a People of African Descent community of practice for law enforcers. This is critical in leveraging People of African Descent’s agency in understanding and restoring trust and confidence in policing for the People of African Descent community at large. The Association of Black Law Enforcers provides a useful model for promoting justice and equity in policing.
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Recommendation 11:
The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General, in partnership with the MHMA, should issue a directive stating that no public funds may be used for private security patrols on public property, including in public parks.
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Recommendation 1:
The Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General and the Attorney General, working in full partnership with historically marginalized communities and communities with high levels of police interactions, must develop a set of guiding values and principles for policing in British Columbia that are grounded in human rights.
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Recommendation 93:
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs should unequivocally establish programs to attract more Peoples of African Descent to British Columbia as part of the Provincial Nominee Program. Here, attention needs to also be paid to the French-speaking Black countries and, more generally, countries that are not adequately represented in BC.
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Recommendation 77:
The Ministry of Municipal Affairs should provide candidates of African Descent with the necessary resources, including dedicated mental health and counseling support, to allow them to navigate structural challenges and inequities they historically face during and post electoral campaigns.
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