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Recommendation 101:
Fund more Indigenous housing outreach workers and advocates.
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Recommendation 17:
Fund more 24/7 low-barrier emergency shelters, transition homes, and drop-ins for women with long-term funding and full wrap-around supports. Also fund more Indigenous-centered and community-based, rather than police-based, victim services programs that provide holistic support including connection to land-based healing and guidance from elders.
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Recommendation 130:
Fund and guarantee independent Indigenous family advocates who can advocate for mothers and families in their dealings with MCFD.
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Recommendation 159:
Fund an Indigenous legal clinic in the DTES that can support Indigenous women in all legal matters and provide regular legal education workshops.
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Recommendation 23:
Fund an Indigenous legal clinic in the DTES that can support Indigenous women in all criminal and civil legal matters including but not limited to family, criminal, mental health, and poverty law issues.
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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 59:
Fully restore and fund poverty law legal aid in BC to address areas such as income security, employment, housing, and debt.
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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 22:
From our findings, there is also a desire from business operators for further “clean-up of public spaces with local business”. Current actions are not satisfactory based on our interview findings. This ongoing challenge can be attributed to larger systemic issues. We stress that ‘clean-up’ does not mean increasing police presence in the neighbourhood.
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Recommendation 10:
From a child rights perspective, treating children as full rights bearers, (Michel v. Graydon, at para. 77) legal representation is a key form of children’s participation which ensures that children’s voices will be heard, and due weight will be given to their opinions (Tempesta, 2019). Legal representation should be provided in all cases involving children’s interests in order to sufficiently fulfil requirements from Article 12 of the UNCRC, including the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child safeguards and guarantees, referred to above. (Elrod, 2016; Lovinsky & Gagne, 2015; Martinson & Tempesta, 2018; Tempesta, 2019). As such, it is necessary to provide legal representation to all children (who choose it after obtaining meaningful information and advice about it and other choices), in all cases, including high risk cases, in order to protect their rights and promote their best interests in guardianship and family law proceedings regardless of the level of risk, as well as fulfil the requirements outlined by the UNCRC (Birnhaum, 2017; Birnbaum et al., 2016; Martinson & Tempesta, 2018; Tempesta, 2019).
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