The provincial government should take both immediate and long-term action to improve supports and services to children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and their families, recommends a report released today by B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth.
This year, we celebrate Social Work Week under the continued cloud of the COVID-19 pandemic – a circumstance that, over the past year, has profoundly affected the demands on social workers, and has markedly changed the nature of the job. …
This International Women’s Day, we raise our hands to women everywhere — especially here in British Columbia — who have so much to do with leading, raising, nurturing, advising, counselling and role modelling for the children and youth of our …
The recent report issued by the British Columbia Expert Panel on Basic Income contains several recommendations regarding youth from care transitioning to adulthood that I strongly support.
Covering all the Basics: Reforms for a More Just Society reinforces the report …
In a new report released today, B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth Jennifer Charlesworth says the provincial government must act to better protect the interests of children and youth involuntarily detained under the Mental Health Act.
The Representative for Children and Youth’s Office has on multiple occasions in the past spoken out against the practice of issuing of birth alerts, and we were pleased when the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) announced it was …
B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth Jennifer Charlesworth is recommending long-overdue changes to supports for youth transitioning out of government care to provide them with the same kind of sustained support that young people who aren’t in care typically receive …
Representative for Children and Youth Jennifer Charlesworth today released a report examining critical injuries and deaths of First Nations children and youth, Illuminating Service Experience: A Descriptive Analysis of Injury and Death Reports for First Nations Children and Youth in …
I want to express my profound sorrow and grief – and that of RCY staff – over the loss this weekend of a shining star of an advocate for young people, Katherine McParland. We learned yesterday of Katherine’s untimely death; …
The provincial government should immediately begin working with families and community organizations to address the urgent needs of children and youth with special needs who have been neglected during the pandemic and begin a system overhaul aimed at providing inclusive, …