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Family

Can you sue your parents for support? 
Legal Services Society 
Online and hard copy publication (fact sheet)
http://www.familylaw.lss.bc.ca/resources/fact_sheets/can_I_sue_parents_for_support.php

Champions for Change – self advocacy tool
Representative for Children and Youth BC
Online publication
https://rcybc.ca/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/reports_publications/rcy-championsforchange-final_july_20.pdf   

Families Change: A teen guide …


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Cyberbullying and Internet Issues

CybersafeBC
Justice Education Society 
Online course
http://www.cybersafebc.ca/

CybersafeBC
Justice Education Society 
Online comic
http://www.cybersafebc.ca/content/1210-posting-online

ERASE Bullying: Information for youth
Ministry of Education (Government of BC)
http://www.erasebullying.ca/index.php

ERASE Bullying: Social media guidelines
Ministry of Education (Government of BC)
Online
http://www.erasebullying.ca/resources/resources-social-media-guidelines.php

Legal …


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Legal Resources

Legal Information Resources for Children and Youth

This list of legal information resources is designed to provide B.C. children, youth, and the people helping them with legal issues with information about relevant resources. It lists legal information resources by legal …


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Representative’s Editorial Submission on “J.P.” case

An opinion-editorial by the Representative clarifying the role of her Office with respect to the “J.P.” case.

Download submission…


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Statement in response to government’s review announcement

By Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C. Representative for Children and Youth

The provincial government announced today that it has hired an external contractor to review “matters arising from Judge Walker’s recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling.”  Because this sort of contracted review …


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Vancouver City Council Resolution Supports RCY report “Paiges’s Story”

Following today’s appearance by Representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, Vancouver City Council today adopted the following Resolution:

A. THAT Vancouver City Council call on the British Columbia Government to:

    a. Extend the option of foster care to the age of …


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A Forum for Change

This report summarizes the discussions that took place with provincial and Aboriginal leadership at A Forum for Change: Reconciliation for Today’s First Nations, Metis & Aboriginal Children Through Custom Adoption and Lifelong Family and Tribal Connections, held in Nanaimo in …


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Growing Up in B.C. – 2015

This joint report between the Representative for Children and Youth and the Provincial Health Officer examines the question, “How are our children doing right now?”  The report finds that while there have been some improvements, vulnerable children and youth, especially …


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