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2023
Recommendation 3:
Work with RCY to identify opportunities to enhance the quality and consistency of reporting on lost and missing children, inclusive of notifications when lost and missing children have been found.
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We urge various jurisdictions to meaningfully engage Internationally Trained Physicians in all decision-making processes related to their medical licensing so that they can bring their voice, expertise, experiences to the table in order to advocate for more inclusive and fair policies.
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Recommendation 10:
This review of lost and missing children highlights cross-jurisdictional research that speaks to the critical importance of a child’s sense of belonging in the child welfare system. These findings are not new for RCY and recommendations to address belonging have been made in the Representative’s report Skye’s Legacy: A focus on belonging, but progress has yet to be made to implement this recommendation. Therefore, the Representative reiterates the recommendation from RCY’s 2021 Skye’s Legacy:
“MCFD to conduct a systemic needs analysis of cultural and family support resources required to ensure that social workers are better supported to promote a sense of belonging and identity for First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Urban Indigenous children and youth in care in relation to their families, culture and cultural community over time and at different stages in their lives and identity development. This review will inform the development of a longer-term resourcing and implementation plan. However, given the urgent need to address the significant over-involvement of the child welfare system in the lives of Indigenous children and families and poor outcomes for Indigenous children in the child welfare system, a substantive investment of new resources should be made immediately that can be considered a down payment on the resources identified for the longer term plan.”
Implementation of new resources was recommended by April 1, 2023, and is now overdue.
“MCFD to conduct a systemic needs analysis of cultural and family support resources required to ensure that social workers are better supported to promote a sense of belonging and identity for First Nations, Métis, Inuit and Urban Indigenous children and youth in care in relation to their families, culture and cultural community over time and at different stages in their lives and identity development. This review will inform the development of a longer-term resourcing and implementation plan. However, given the urgent need to address the significant over-involvement of the child welfare system in the lives of Indigenous children and families and poor outcomes for Indigenous children in the child welfare system, a substantive investment of new resources should be made immediately that can be considered a down payment on the resources identified for the longer term plan.”
Implementation of new resources was recommended by April 1, 2023, and is now overdue.
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The Representative is calling for a special convening of the child-serving systems and the children, youth, families and communities they serve to respond to the cracks in our care system that are contributing to children and youth being pushed and pulled away from the systems of care and being subjected to increased risks of serious incidents or critical injuries and deaths. To address the root systemic and structural causes of children and youth going missing from the child welfare system we need to collectively explore:
- What are the conditions of unbelonging that lead to children becoming lost or missing in the child welfare system?
- How are children’s unmet needs across systems contributing to them going missing?
- How do we align systems of care and protection to respond more effectively and uphold the rights of children who have disappeared in the system?
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- Academic institutions ,
- Faith and cultural groups ,
- First Nations governments ,
- General public ,
- Government of British Columbia ,
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- Independent offices of the Legislature ,
- Indigenous organizations ,
- Municipal governments ,
- Non-profits and community organizations ,
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Recommendation 11:
Requiring representation of graduates of international medicals schools on all committees and other forums which make decisions that effect graduates of international medical schools’ access to the medical profession.
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Recommendation 9:
Removing exclusive responsibility for the selection of residents from Faculties of Medicine and putting in place oversight to overcome the bias embedded in the system.
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Recommendation 2:
Provide more transparent and clear information upon pre-arrival and pre-migration to Canada to Internationally Trained Physicians.
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Prioritize and formalize Internationally Trained Physicians mental healthcare supports upon arrival to Canada and during the licensure process.
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Recommendation 5:
Pending the development and implementation of a congruent whole-of-system response that addresses the push and pull factors contributing to children and youth being lost or missing in the child welfare system, adopt interim practice guidelines that support social workers and care teams to meaningfully engage with and respond to children and youth during and after incidents of them going missing. Interim practice guidelines to be informed by research evidence and effective practices employed in other jurisdictions.
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Recommendation 5:
Opening up all residency positions (including speciality and subspecialty) to competition by all Canadian citizens and permanent residents who have passed the Medical Council of Canada exams which establish that they have the critical medical knowledge, decision-making ability and clinical skills expected from Canadian medical school graduates and, as such, are qualified to work as resident physicians.
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