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Recommendation 14:
Transfer authority for interventions to address self-harm and suicidality, including restraints, observation cells and suicide smocks, to the Provincial Health Services Authority. Eliminate the use of the BOARD and WRAP, except where authorized by the Provincial Health Services Authority for medical purposes.
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Recommendation 8:
Train frontline Ministry workers in trauma informed service provision to ensure people who access services are treated with compassion, patience and understanding. The training may include education on mental health related barriers and stigma reduction provided by people with lived or living experience of illness and of accessing assistance.
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Recommendation 129:
Train and hire more Indigenous social workers and ensure that all social workers are culturally-competent, committed to decolonizing practices, have better communication skills, and are educated about and sensitive to the intergenerational trauma of family separation.
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Recommendation 27:
Track repeated violations of policy by the same staff person or institution at the headquarters level.
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Recommendation 26:
Track and report publicly on all uses of force against prisoners, broken down by type (physical handling, OC spray, ERT, etc). Disaggregate data by race, gender, disability and centre.
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Recommendation 53:
Together with post-secondary schools in BC, the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training must develop a dedicated anti-racism action plan with concrete measures to protect People of African Descent and members of other racialized groups partaking in BC’s higher education. The plan must be based on genuine and broad multi-actor consultations. The process for the Ministry of Education’s K-12 anti-racism action plan as well as the content of the Scarborough Charter on Anti-Black Racism and Black Inclusion in Canadian Higher Education can be sources of valuable insights.
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Recommendation 46:
To meet the Black-educator deficit in BC schools, the Province must design a credential recognition system that recognizes and allows qualified Black educators who have immigrated to BC to more easily practice their teaching in BC. A supplementary approach is to encourage and support opportunities for part-time teaching, talks and sessions for Black professionals including interested retirees. The education Ministries can maintain a list of willing participants.
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Recommendation 21:
To facilitate meaningful access to counsel, we recommend legislation or policy providing:
- That outside agencies should be allowed to provide in-person legal aid clinics in SIUs on a regular basis.
- That CSC staff must deliver and facilitate all legal callback requests within 24 hours.
- That CSC must share relevant documentation directly with counsel at least three days in advance of all SIU reviews, without requiring a signed consent form.
- That outgoing faxes to counsel be provided to all prisoners free of charge and within one working day.
- That prisoners be provided sufficient time to meet with counsel in person, in a confidential room.
- That all necessary steps be taken to facilitate the attendance of counsel at hearings, including advising counsel of the time and date of the hearing as soon as it is scheduled and confirming requests by counsel to attend.
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Recommendation 8:
To ensure that the review reflects the current reality of both publicly subsidized and private-pay assisted living residences, the Seniors Advocate would begin by conducting three mini audits:
- To determine the proportion of residents currently living in assisted living residences who do not qualify for assisted living (as defined by the Bill 16 amendments) and identify the extent to which there are problems related to inappropriate prescribing and the lack of safeguards in medication storage;
- To determine the percentage of current residents in long-term care who do not require this level of support and who could be more appropriately supported in an assisted living residence (instead of relying on RAI-MDS data as is currently the case); and
- To determine the number of assisted living residents using emergency services, and the reason for and frequency of these visits and the costs to the system.
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Recommendation 24:
To address safety concerns expressed by interviewees, there are several larger structural solutions such as increasing the number of safe and affordable housing units, access to health-focused treatment, and equitable employment opportunities. One short-term measure could be to install lighting on streets and in alleyways to help people feel safe during evenings and at night.
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