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2014
Recommendation 9:
Women experiencing domestic violence should be supported by community based victim services, transition houses, counselling, and supports that are accessible to women with disabilities, including mothers and their children.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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Recommendation 3:
When counselling is mandated in order for parents to keep or have their children returned from care, MCFD should ensure that counselling is meaningfully available to parents with disabilities. This must include providing sign language interpreters for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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Recommendation 24:
When a woman is unable to become pregnant due to a disability, she should have access to publicly funded assisted reproductive technologies.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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Recommendation 7:
To be successful, a National Action Plan must be accompanied by adequate sustained funding to meet its goals as well as means to ensure accountability to Parliament and to the Indigenous women and their families who the plan would serve. Critically, such a plan should be developed in collaboration with Indigenous women’s organizations to ensure their full and effective participation in defining needs and solutions.
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- Access to justice ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Racism ,
- Representation and leadership ,
- Sexism
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Recommendation 23:
The Province should make contraception widely and freely available for all people in British Columbia. At the very least, government must reinstate funding for IUDs for women with disabilities.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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Recommendation 25:
The Province should begin drafting legislation to regulate assisted reproductive technologies in BC, in consultation with key stakeholders — including people with disabilities. Non-discrimination and the protection and promotion of human health, safety, dignity, diversity and rights should be key principles underlying the legislation.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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Recommendation 3:
The promotion of standardized protocols for police handling of missing persons cases, including tools for fair and effective assessment of the risk to the missing individual.
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Recommendation 34:
The Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation must act on the Auditor General’s recommendations to make the disability assistance system more accessible, user-friendly, and easier to navigate.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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Recommendation 18:
The Ministry of Justice should work with disability, women-serving and antiviolence organizations to develop and deliver training for professionals working in the family law system, including lawyers, social workers, mediators, arbitrators, parenting coordinators, and parenting assessors, on the impact (or lack thereof) of disability on the capacity to parent.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
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West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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Recommendation 10:
The Ministry of Justice should work with disability, women-serving and antiviolence organizations to develop and deliver training for professionals working in the child protection system, including lawyers, social workers, mediators, and parenting assessors, on the impact (or lack thereof) of disability on parenting capacity. Professionals working in the child protection context must be guided by the principle underlying BC’s child protection legislation that families should receive the support services they need to provide a safe and nurturing environment for their children.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
Group/author:
West Coast Leaf
West Coast Leaf
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2014
2014
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