Human Resources committee  You can adopt trauma-informed practices, but I think that a lot of people use that as a kind of token statement. It sounds really good to say we do trauma-informed...but when we look at the reality of the situation, we're failing to do that. When we're sending a youth who was sex

Human Resources committee  It's the system and the barriers that we're putting up that are excluding so many people because it is hard to understand what it actually feels like to be in that situation. When you're a youth trying to access things and all you keep hearing is “no” or “you can't do this” or “

Human Resources committee  Yes.

Human Resources committee  [Inaudible—Editor]

Human Resources committee  I think one of the biggest things that would be helpful would be.... We do have the MCFD, the ministry at the provincial level. There is a bit of a perception, I would say, that our kids can't fall through that because that's a safety net. I think that creating streams of funding

Human Resources committee  I think that funding is probably the biggest thing, and to also, as I said earlier, really give that opportunity to community-based people. For the most part, community-based programs don't really have access to funding for something like youth housing right now. It gets put in p

Human Resources committee  After being cycled through youth shelters and being homeless and all of that, I was put in an apartment on the ministry's agreement. I had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. I spent six years in complete social isolation because I was out of physical harm, but I

Human Resources committee  In thinking about youth homelessness, the biggest thing that we need today, and that we're asking you guys to do, is to fund long-term housing, somewhere that youth can be supported. They need that instead of being thrown into apartments by themselves. I went through that. It led

Human Resources committee  I'll give you a little bit of an idea of what happens. I many times had to go through this cycle where my dad would break one of my bones and I would get sent to an emergency shelter. You can stay there for seven days, but you cannot be in that shelter during the day. We don't ha

Human Resources committee  There are 20 low-barrier beds in all of B.C., and they are operating to capacity every single night.

Human Resources committee  I'm just going to open by saying thanks a lot. We spent the morning listening to a lot of facts and statistics, and seeing how things look on paper. The reason I am really grateful to be here—nervous as hell but really grateful—is that I want to be able to provide you with a sen