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Recommendation 177:
Establish alternatives to Correctional facilities for all mothers who are primary caregivers or expected to give birth while in prison. In the immediate, implement child-friendly mother-child units in all Correctional facilities so no child is separated from their mother.
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Recommendation 16:
Establish a Practice Direction re-affirming the presumption of unconditional release and the requirement that Crown individually justify the imposition of every restriction on release.
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Recommendation 1:
Establish a permanent Fair Wages Commission to examine issues related to low wages and precarity in BC to advise government on strategies that bring workers above the poverty line. Make sure all workers in BC are covered by the hourly minimum wage by the end of 2023.
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 12:
Establish a food-focused business incubator space (e.g. test/pop-up kitchen) to reduce barriers to small business startup.
- Encourage and incentivize a focus on cultural specificity in kitchen set up and training programs.
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Recommendation 48:
Establish a child care capital budget and further work with communities to plan, fund, and build new publicly owned child care facilities. This should begin with the purchase of bulk modular child care buildings to be located on public land across the province.
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Recommendation 10:
Establish a BC Provincial Plan to End Youth Homelessness that is developed and endorsed by Youth First Voices, Indigenous Voices, community stakeholders and governments.
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Recommendation 7:
Establish a BC Coalition to End Youth Homelessness and a community of practice (CoP) on youth homelessness.
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Recommendation 7:
Equip all ERT/CEE teams with helmet cameras.
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Recommendation 28:
Ensuring that people living with disabilities can access disability support by:
- simplifying the application process to reduce wait times and lessen reliance on advocates;
- providing provincial guidelines for doctors/service providers on how and when to fill out disability forms; and
- ensuring that hospital social workers are resourced and directed to work with patients in need to apply for disability benefits.
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Recommendation 1:
Ensure Youth First Voices and Indigenous Voices have a lead role in the development of a provincial plan to end youth homelessness in British Columbia.
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