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2020
Recommendation 63:
Ensure Internet access, access to technology, and in-person support to those accessing the legal system online.
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Recommendation 16:
Ensure every youth aging out has a SIN card and photo ID. Youth are reporting challenges in accessing ID during the pandemic.
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Recommendation 20:
Ensure each youth has stable income, so they are able to afford housing ongoing.
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Recommendation 7:
Ensure all youth shelters are accessible for youth at this time (many closures reported).
COVID-19 & Youth Homelessness Special Report
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BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness
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2020
2020
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Recommendation 76:
End wage discrimination against farm workers and implement the general minimum wage as a wage floor for all piece-rate farm workers, as recommended by the Fair Wages Commission in 2018.
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Recommendation 79:
End contract flipping that enables employers to keep wages low for tens of thousands of workers.
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Recommendation 1:
Effective children’s mental health services — including both prevention and treatment — must be provided for all those in need. As well, pre-existing service shortfalls must be addressed. Given predictions of as much as tenfold increases in the needs for the most affected children, in the short-term this will require ensuring comprehensive plans, substantially increasing budgets for children’s mental health, protecting these budgets, and ensuring efficient whole-of-government service coordination. While the front-end costs of such investments will be high, the long-term benefits will be high as well — including reducing costs associated with avoidable long-term mental health problems. For children with mild or transient symptoms, effective prevention programs can stop the progression to mental disorders, which often become entrenched and persist into adulthood with ensuing distress and disability; meanwhile, for those with disorders, effective treatments can reduce distress and speed the return to healthy development and functioning.
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Recommendation 54:
Education should be subsidized and the province should provide opportunities for project-based learning and apprenticeships. Youth recommend having basic education courses online to support literacy and numeracy development.
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Recommendation 4:
During waking hours, the norm should be free movement and the opportunity for meaningful activities and meaningful human interaction. This could include a variety of organized recreational, educational, cultural, spiritual and occupational activities facilitated by qualified staff, volunteers, community service providers and peers, and should include unstructured time indoors and out of doors.
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Recommendation 82:
During the pandemic, unemployment has impacted the youth demographic particularly hard and will have long term impacts. The government must develop a strategy to help youth achieve developmental milestones of employment and education.
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