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Recommendation 21:
Immediately increase the shelter component of social assistance to at least $525 a month.
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Recommendation 116:
Immediately disallow apprehensions of Indigenous babies at birth and while they are still breastfeeding.
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Recommendation 8:
Immediately develop resources and guidelines for staff on the use of child-centred, person-first and identity-first, destigmatizing language when speaking to and documenting the lives of children and youth in the child-serving system.
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Recommendation 37:
Immediately develop policy, guidelines and reporting forms to provide for post-use of force medical assessments of every prisoner subject to force. Ensure assessments involve thorough physical examinations in a private setting and that nurses document all reported and observed injuries. Train all staff in the new policy.
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Recommendation 11:
Immediately commit to establishing an effective substance use system of care and involving families in all stages of development and planning. This includes family involvement in the new Overdose Emergency Response Centre (OERC), as promised at the OERC announcement on December 1st, 2017.
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Recommendation 14:
Immediately cancel all outstanding refugee transportation loan debt and cease seeking repayment of transportation costs for all new refugees coming to Canada.
2022 BC Child Poverty Report Card
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First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
First Call Child and Youth Advocacy Society
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2022
2022
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Recommendation 31:
Immediately build another 6,000 units of modular housing across BC and make a plan to transition those living in modular housing into permanent social housing.
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Recommendation 95:
Immediately build 10,000 affordable social housing units per year in B.C., with an additional 1000 units each year. These units must be self-contained units of at least 400 square feet with bathrooms and kitchens.
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Recommendation 28:
Immediately begin the process of collecting baseline data on the outcomes of poverty (such as homelessness) in order to include concrete realistic goals and milestones in the poverty reduction plan.
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Recommendation 139:
Immediate independent investigation into the VPD practice of street checks with the goal of ending street checks.
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