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Recommendation 1:
Broaden the concept of human rights to incorporate international human rights principles as reflected in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and Indigenous legal traditions, in the Code and BCHRT operations and practice.
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Recommendation 1:
We recommend that legislation prohibit the use of solitary confinement as it is defined by the United Nations’ in the Mandela Rules.
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Recommendation 13:
- To meet the needs of youth, communities should be supported to develop an array of housing options. This includes: emergency housing, stabilization housing, mentorship programs, transition housing, scattered site units, private market housing, and access to subsidized market housing.
- Articulate the support needs of youth housing programs in B.C. Housing supports should include: therapy for trauma related to physical and sexualized violence, mental health and substance-use treatment and counseling, life-skills, outreach, health, sexuality, recreation, cultural, education, employment, and peer support.
- Provincial targets and bench-marks such as number of housing units needed.
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Recommendation 21:
- Support the parents’ reintegration after incarceration (reintegration planning, housing at point of release, access to financial assistance, etc.) and provide support for family issues.
- Involve children’s families and caregivers in the planning of the parent’s release and return to the community.
- Work collaboratively with families to ensure a smooth transition of the incarcerated parent from custody to the community.
- Expand family contacts and increase family involvement in preparation for the parents’ release. Design and implement pre- and post-release reintegration programs that take into account the specific needs of individuals resuming their parental role in the community.
- Ensure that decisions regarding early release of incarcerated parents take into account their parental responsibilities, as well as their specific family reintegration needs and issues.
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
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Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Recommendation 24:
- Support the development of systems, standards and practices that respect and reflect the pivotal place that culture, tradition, values, language and identity play in the lives of children.
- Help children build connection to community, culture, group, clan, and extended family when those relationships have been damaged.
- Engage community resources without a formal mandate to support the children and their families.
- Help Indigenous children and heal families by helping children preserve their aboriginal identity.
- Keep Indigenous children connected to their land, languages and culture.
- Make use of Indigenous decision-making process.
- Work closely with Indigenous communities to identify ways to protect children of parents in conflict with the law without removing them from the family or the community, and find homes within the children’s extended family or community.
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
Group/author:
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Recommendation 14:
- Support relatives who are taking care of the children. For example, see the EFry Brochure on “Raising a Relative’s Child”.
- Support foster parents and work with the agencies responsible for foster care arrangements to provide them with information, resources, and training.
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
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Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2018
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Recommendation 15:
- Provide timely access to legal assistance (e.g., through legal assistance phoneline, Family Law Centres, etc.).
- Provide legal information to children in an age-sensitive manner.
- Provide timely across to legal assistance (e.g., through legal assistance phoneline, Family Law Centres, etc.).
- Help parents and caregivers deal with child custody and child protection matters.
- Provide legal advocacy for the children and protect their rights in all contacts with the legal system.
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
Group/author:
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Recommendation 12:
- Provide children with access to emotional and psychosocial support, including help in dealing with stress, trauma, and feelings of stigma, blame and shame.
- Ensure the children’s safety and, if necessary, develop and implement child safety plans; allow the child to stay in his/her home under a “supervision order” with conditions that the parents must follow; and, remove the child if the child safety cannot be ensured.
- Improve the children’s access to existing programs (sport, recreation, mentoring, etc.).
- Facilitate the integration of children into a new school or a new community when they have to relocate.
- Help normalize the child’s life (increased adult support and conversations, new relationships, activities, etc.).
- Offer support to children who have developed behavioural issues that affect their adaptation in school, participation in sports, or enjoyment of recreational and sport activities.
Enhancing the Protective Environment for Children of Parents in Conflict with the Law or Incarcerated: A Framework for Action
Group/author:
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, University of the Fraser Valley – School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
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2018
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Recommendation 15:
- Ensures an Indigenous lens and leadership role in developing a culturally responsive plan to support Indigenous programs and governments.
- Ensure adequate mental health, substance-use, life-skills, employment and education supports for youth.
- A strategy to incentivize coordinated supports at local levels.
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Recommendation 12:
- Collaboration with and advice to government on:
- Policy changes and coordinated, inter-ministry provincial responses; and
- Promising practices to end youth homelessness including prevention, housing, and support programs.
- Recommendations of financial resources from the provincial government to support local communities housing and support programs to end youth homelessness.
- An implementation plan and process that ensures Youth First Voices, Indigenous Voices and B.C. communities are heard.
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