Victoria – Nine years into B.C.’s toxic drug crisis, first declared a public health emergency by the Provincial Health Officer in 2016, children and youth remain among those most deeply impacted. OnInternational Overdose Awareness Day (August 31), B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth (RCY) is raising awareness that young people are experiencing harms from increasingly […]
Victoria – One year after the high-profile report focusing on the preventable death of an 11-year-old boy in the Fraser Valley, B.C.’s independent oversight office for children and youth says more must be done to ensure young people are safe and supported to thrive in the province. July 16, 2025, marks the one-year anniversary of […]
Victoria – In acknowledgement of International Missing Children’s Day, May 25, B.C.’s Representative for Children and Youth is calling on provincial systems of care to do more to prevent and better support young people who are lost, fleeing and missing from government care. “The government has made improvements since my office completed a report on […]
Victoria – A report issued today by the Representative for Children and Youth finds that MCFD’s child welfare workforce is undeniably in a state of crisis and that a number of immediate and sustained steps must be taken so that B.C.’s most vulnerable children receive the services and supports they desperately need. “When we are […]
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