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2019
Recommendation 24:
Fund a Bear Clan Patrol in the DTES that is led by Indigenous residents and based on Indigenous reciprocal responsibilities of safety, security, and kinship.
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Recommendation 168:
Full decarceration of Indigenous women in the federal and provincial corrections system. No Indigenous woman should ever be sentenced into a colonial system.
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Recommendation 24:
Frequent family visits and family reunification must always be the top priority and never delayed due to shortages in MCFD resources. MCFD should ensure that staff understand the need to prioritize frequent family visits and, where feasible, work with community-based organizations that are supporting the parent to ease access.
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Recommendation 126:
Frequent family visits and family reunification must always be the top priority and never delayed due to MCFD’s own bureaucratic inefficiencies. Social workers must not be allowed to cancel family visits without written authorization from the Director.
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Recommendation 76:
Free skills training, retraining, and apprenticeships for Indigenous women in the DTES.
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Recommendation 87:
Free postsecondary tuition:
- Free tuition for all postsecondary education for all Indigenous women and girls.
- Eliminate all interest on existing student loans for Indigenous women and girls.
- Under the Single Parents Employment Initiative, extend tuition coverage to multi-year degrees and training programs and remove the restricted list of eligible careers and programs.
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Recommendation 178:
For women who do not have primary custody of their children, prioritize the social bond between incarcerated mothers and their children. This includes:
- Funding for families to cover the costs and logistics of transportation for visits and child-friendly practices during visitation including visitation hours scheduled after school hours, no body searches of children, and allowance for physical contact.
- Visitation outside the prison setting.
- Free and unlimited phone calls and introduce video calling technologies, in addition to the right to open in-person visits.
- Family reunification as a priority post-release by providing all the necessary supports including housing, child care, and parenting support.
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Recommendation 23:
For expecting parents, it is important to have an advocate or family support worker do initial visits to enhance the chances for engagement with services prior to birth. MCFD must work with community-based organizations that have developed best practices in engaging expectant parents to assess how the Ministry can develop a pathway whereby expectant parents could voluntarily seek prevention supports prior to their child’s birth.
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Recommendation 93:
Federal funding for homelessness needs to go beyond Housing First initiatives to better suit the diverse needs of Indigenous women. Housing First funding must also have less eligibility criteria and longer timelines.
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Recommendation 94:
Extend the provincial Shelter Allowance for Elderly Renters (SAFER) to housing charges in nonprofit cooperative housing, and extend SAFER grants to the amount of rent increases.
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