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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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Recommendation 59:
If there is a second wave, there needs to be increased education on how the CERB works and who is eligible for it. There should be designated financial supports for youth with disabilities or young people who are working part-time.
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Recommendation 34:
If a prisoner is strip-searched in a room with a camera, staff should cover it to allay prisoners’ fears about being strip searched on camera. If a prisoner is strip searched in the presence of a handheld camera, allow the prisoner to see that the camera is turned away.
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Recommendation 63:
We call upon the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada to maintain an annual commitment to Aboriginal education issues, including:
- Developing and implementing Kindergarten to Grade Twelve curriculum and learning resources on Aboriginal peoples in Canadian history, and the history and legacy of residential schools.
- Sharing information and best practices on teaching curriculum related to residential schools and Aboriginal history.
- Building student capacity for intercultural understanding, empathy, and mutual respect. iv. Identifying teacher-training needs relating to the above.
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Recommendation 9:
Identify, implement and sustain effective services and promising practices related to the prevention and ending of youth homelessness:
- Prevention and early intervention;
- Housing;
- and Supports and services.
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Recommendation 1:
Identify the needs of different community members to be better able to serve across parallel systems; leaving it solely to the free market will continue to gentrify the area and exacerbate existing cohesion problems.
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