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Recommendation 2:
Increase opportunities for Indigenous pathways to healing and recovery, particularly through traditional, land-based, and spiritual teachings for those struggling with addictions and substance-use.
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Recommendation 10:
Increase land-based learning, healing, and stewardship opportunities for First Nations children and youth.
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Recommendation 4:
- Focus on traditional knowledge and skills transfer
- Ground programming in Indigenous language for deeper meaning
- Incorporate traditional foods, medicines, and cleansing
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Recommendation 17:
Increase investment in public health initiatives aimed to support maternal and parental health and healthy infant development, as well as non-barriered, free, community-based programs and services for all families with young children to ensure these supports are available throughout the province and designed to reach families experiencing poverty and other threats to their ability to thrive.
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 15:
Increase investment in both capital and operating costs for shelter-rate housing, including through the Empty Homes tax, borrowing, reducing the annual police budget, and taxing homes worth over $5,000,000. Invest specifically in permanent new Indigenous housing. Promote family reunification by providing family-sized, culturally safe units in new permanent shelter-rate and social housing.
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Recommendation 25:
Increase investment and support for community health centres throughout B.C.
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Recommendation 160:
Increase Indigenous women’s Access to justice by extending funding to guarantee all Indigenous women have access to full legal aid for criminal and civil legal matters including family, criminal, mental health, and poverty legal aid.
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Recommendation 61:
Increase income and disability rates to the Market Basket Measure to reflect the cost of an adequate standard of living, and index them to inflation.
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Recommendation 11:
Increase housing stock for Indigenous people in both urban and rural communities, on and off reserve, including safe secure housing for women, women as single parent families and men.
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Recommendation 40:
Increase harm reduction services for youth, including appropriate supplies, naloxone kits and training to use safely. In particular, youth in Williams Lake requested harm reduction services.
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