With the proclamation of the ACYA, MACY inherited the responsibility from the Manitoba Ombudsman to monitor the implementation of recommendations made by our office. In accordance with Section 11 (1)(d) of the ACYA, MACY will be monitoring the implementation of recommendations included in reports made as provided under Section 27 (Investigation) and Section 31 (Special Reports). In addition, Sections 30(2) and 30(4) of the ACYA require that the Manitoba Advocate must include in the Annual Report a summary of recommendations made in Special Reports, and may include information on the level of compliance to the recommendation.
To find out more about the recommendations that transferred in with the new legislation, check out our 2018/19 Annual Report (PDF) (page 36-37).
The table below is a reflection of information as reported in the MACY Annual Report. It summarizes the recommendations released in Special Reports, identifies the activities conducted towards implementing the recommendation, and MACY’s evaluation of compliance to the recommendation.
Table Headings and Functions:
In November 2020, the Advocate released her first compliance report monitoring recommendations. See the full report here (PDF).
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June 22, 2022 | Every Two Hours: A Special Report on Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Manitoba – Recommendation 7 | Intimate Partner Violence | Manitoba Education | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Seven: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends That Manitoba Education (now Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning) develop and distribute learning resources for teachers, school clinicians, and other school staff on teaching healthy relationships for each grade-level, and understanding the effect of IPV exposure on children and youth. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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June 22, 2022 | Every Two Hours: A Special Report on Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Manitoba – Recommendation 6 | Intimate Partner Violence | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Six: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Minister responsible for the Manitoba Status of Women Secretariat, enhance funding to each of the ten family violence shelters in Manitoba to ensure employment of a child-focused trauma specialist. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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June 22, 2022 | Every Two Hours: A Special Report on Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Manitoba – Recommendation 5 | Intimate Partner Violence | Manitoba Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Minister of Health, in collaboration with the Ministers of Mental Health and Community Wellness, Families, and Justice, fund specialized resource(s) that provide culturally safe therapeutic supports for children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) to address their trauma and support their journey to healing, consistent with Article 39 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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June 22, 2022 | Every Two Hours: A Special Report on Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Manitoba – Recommendation 4 | Intimate Partner Violence | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Deputy Ministers responsible for the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth Recommendations Action Planning (MACY-RAP) Committee lead the development of a whole-of-government response plan to address the coordination gaps for children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV), with the goal of ensuring a child-centred, culturally safe, and trauma- informed service response for all children known to be exposed to IPV in Manitoba. DETAILS: These activities should include:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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June 22, 2022 | Every Two Hours: A Special Report on Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Manitoba – Recommendation 3 | Intimate Partner Violence | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Minister of Justice conduct an independent outcome evaluation of the Winnipeg Police Service and Manitoba Justice’s Domestic Violence Support Service (DVSS) Pilot program that provides an integrated response to incidents of intimate partner violence (IPV). DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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June 22, 2022 | Every Two Hours: A Special Report on Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Manitoba – Recommendation 2 | Intimate Partner Violence | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Minister of Justice develop a consolidated policing standards framework for investigating intimate partner violence (IPV) that includes best practices for responding to children exposed to IPV in Manitoba, consistent with recommendations 3 and 4 of the Independent Review of the Manitoba Police Services Act, 2009 Final Report. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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June 22, 2022 | Every Two Hours: A Special Report on Children and Youth Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence in Manitoba – Recommendation 1 | Intimate Partner Violence | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Ministers of the Gender-Based Violence Committee of Cabinet publicly recognize children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) as primary victims and rights-holders under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child who are entitled to supports. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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November 4, 2021 | Finding the Way Back: An Aggregate Investigation of 45 Boys Who Died by Homicide or Suicide in Manitoba – Recommendation 4 | Gang Prevention | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends the Government of Manitoba, in collaboration with the Government of Canada, extensively and inclusively consult with communities throughout Manitoba to update, fund, and implement a comprehensive provincial youth gang prevention strategy. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 02/2024 |
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November 4, 2021 | Finding the Way Back: An Aggregate Investigation of 45 Boys Who Died by Homicide or Suicide in Manitoba – Recommendation 3 | Anti-Racism/Cultural Inclusion in Education | Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends the Department of Education, in consultation with school divisions and relevant stakeholders, demonstrate the development or continuation of sustainable initiatives in anti-racist education generally, and anti-Indigenous racism specifically, for all students, administrators, teachers, and support staff in Manitoba schools to enhance understanding of racism in education with a view to eradicate inequities and system barriers. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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November 4, 2021 | Finding the Way Back: An Aggregate Investigation of 45 Boys Who Died by Homicide or Suicide in Manitoba – Recommendation 2 | Anti-Racism/Cultural Inclusion in Education | Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends the Department of Education continue work on an Indigenous Inclusion Strategy, in collaboration with all school divisions, First Nations and Metis youth, governments, and communities, and includes culturally appropriate school engagement initiatives tailored to Indigenous boys with the purpose of closing the achievement gap and increasing high-school completion rates. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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November 4, 2021 | Finding the Way Back: An Aggregate Investigation of 45 Boys Who Died by Homicide or Suicide in Manitoba – Recommendation 1 | Parent Treatment/Resources | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends the Department of Families cooperate with the Departments of Health and Seniors Care and Mental Health, Wellness and Recovery, along with each of the Child and Family Services authorities to implement evidence-based and culturally safe interventions for parents with substance use disorders with the goal of reducing apprehensions by enhancing substance use supports for parents and communities, in alignment with Calls to Action 1 and 5 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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March 25, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps: Achieving Substantive Equality for Children with Disabilities in Manitoba – Recommendation 9 | Children's disability services | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Nine: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Families and Children’s disABILITY Services create and resource a strategy that reflects a full and flexible continuum of respite options from at-home respite to alternative care outside the home. DETAILS: The intents of the recommendation are to:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 25, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps: Achieving Substantive Equality for Children with Disabilities in Manitoba – Recommendation 8 | Children's disability services | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Eight: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Children’s disABILITY Services complete a program manual and make this publicly available. DETAILS: The intents of the recommendation are to:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 25, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps: Achieving Substantive Equality for Children with Disabilities in Manitoba – Recommendation 7 | Children's disability services | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Seven: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Children’s disABILITY Services develop a policy and process to collect regular feedback from the children with disabilities and the families it serves to inform service improvements. DETAILS: The intents of the recommendation are to:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 25, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps: Achieving Substantive Equality for Children with Disabilities in Manitoba – Recommendation 6 | Children's disability services | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Six: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Children’s disABILITY Services, in consultation with Indigenous experts in Manitoba, develop and implement a process for self-disclosure of First Nations (status and non-status), Metis, and Inuit ancestry, and track this information in case management records. DETAILS: The intents of the recommendation are to:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 25, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps: Achieving Substantive Equality for Children with Disabilities in Manitoba – Recommendation 5 | Children's disability services | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Families and Children’s disABILITY Services review and address case management workloads to ensure case managers are able to implement internal standards and provide services that align with a family-centered service model. DETAILS: The intents of the recommendation are to:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 25, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps: Achieving Substantive Equality for Children with Disabilities in Manitoba – Recommendation 4 | Children's disability services | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Families, Manitoba Health and Seniors Care, and Shared Health ensure that families whose children are placed on waitlists for assessments and interventions for disabilities receive system navigation supports through the Children’s disABILITY Services Program while they wait. DETAILS: The intents of the recommendation are to:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 25, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps: Achieving Substantive Equality for Children with Disabilities in Manitoba – Recommendation 3 | Children's disability services | Manitoba Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health and Seniors Care, Shared Health Manitoba, and Regional Health Authorities work together to create and resource a financially sustainable coordination agreement to reduce wait-times for diagnostic assessment for children suspected of having a disability, with the goal of wait-times less than six months between referral and diagnosis. DETAILS: The intents of the recommendation are to:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 25, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps: Achieving Substantive Equality for Children with Disabilities in Manitoba – Recommendation 2 | Children's disability services | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that a protocol be developed between Children’s disABILITY Services and Child and Family Services that clearly outlines mutually agreed upon processes for serving and jointly funding services for high needs children with disabilities and caregivers that receive services from both programs. DETAILS: The intents of the recommendation are to:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 25, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps: Achieving Substantive Equality for Children with Disabilities in Manitoba – Recommendation 1 | Children's disability services | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends the Government of Manitoba develop and enact a legislative mandate for the Children’s disABILITY Services Program, similar to Alberta’s Family Support for Children with Disabilities Act, that empowers and resources Children’s disABILITY Services to provide a broad continuum of supports for children living with disabilities and their families. DETAILS: The intents of the recommendation are to:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 11, 2021 | Still Waiting. Investigating Child Maltreatment after the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry – Recommendation 5 | Child Welfare Training | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: The Manitoba Advocate recommends that the Department of Families, through the Joint Training Team, develop and administer mandatory training for front line workers and supervisors on the risk and protective factors of child maltreatment and best practices for reunification. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 11, 2021 | Still Waiting. Investigating Child Maltreatment after the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry – Recommendation 2 | Parent Treatment/Resources | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: Consistent with Call to Action 5 of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Manitoba work with First Nations and Metis governments and community stakeholders to ensure access to evidence-informed and culturally-safe parenting programs and resources for caregivers of children under the age of five in every community across Manitoba, with attention to rural and remote communities. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 11, 2021 | Still Waiting. Investigating Child Maltreatment after the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry – Recommendation 1 | Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Manitoba implement the outstanding recommendations from the Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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May 7, 2020 | “Stop Giving Me a Number and Start Giving Me a Person”: How 22 Girls Illuminate the Cracks in the Manitoba Youth Mental – Recommendation 7 | Mental Health and Addictions | Government of Manitoba , Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Seven: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Manitoba develop an inpatient or community-based long-term treatment resource that offers stabilization, assessment, treatment, and aftercare for youth who are at the top tier of mental health and addictions care needs, and for whom less intensive options have been ineffective. DETAILS:
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Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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May 7, 2020 | “Stop Giving Me a Number and Start Giving Me a Person”: How 22 Girls Illuminate the Cracks in the Manitoba Youth Mental – Recommendation 6 | Mental Health and Addictions | Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Six: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Department of Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Health and Seniors Care), in collaboration with rural and First Nations communities in Manitoba, and the federal government, where applicable, implement recommendation 2.11 of the Virgo Report, as summarized below: In the RHAs other than the WRHA, create mental health hubs (as identified in the Peachey report), with a view to: (a) developing these as integrated regional mental health and substance use/addictions (SUA) “focal points”, and (b) harmonizing a core set of regional services and supports to the hospital emergency departments and crisis services including: Screening, assessment, and support for SUA. 24/7 access to psychiatric consultation and acute assessment/treatment services. A core set of professionals in addition to psychiatrists with capacity in SUA support – e.g., clinical psychologists and psychiatric emergency nurses, Cross-trained mental health and addiction liaison workers co-located in hospital emergency departments/other hospital programs. Infrastructure and staffing to ensure safety and security of patients and staff. Links to community mental health and addictions services, including centralized intake (Virgo Planning, 2018; full wording may be found at p. 225). DETAILS:
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Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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May 7, 2020 | “Stop Giving Me a Number and Start Giving Me a Person”: How 22 Girls Illuminate the Cracks in the Manitoba Youth Mental – Recommendation 5 | Mental Health and Addictions | Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Department of Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Health and Seniors Care), in collaboration with rural communities in Manitoba, and the federal government, where applicable, implement recommendation 4.8 of the Virgo Report: Building upon the successful experience of the NorWest Youth Hub and lessons learned from the experience of other provinces, develop a provincial plan for scale-up of the youth hub model, or similar models of integrated youth services, taking advantage of support from philanthropy as it may be available (Virgo Planning, 2018, p. 235). DETAILS:
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Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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May 7, 2020 | “Stop Giving Me a Number and Start Giving Me a Person”: How 22 Girls Illuminate the Cracks in the Manitoba Youth Mental – Recommendation 4 | Mental Health and Addictions | Government of Manitoba , Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: In line with Article 24 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Manitoba conduct an annual review of what therapeutic trauma interventions are available to children and youth in Manitoba and create an inventory of resources, whether the resources require formal referrals from service providers or are open for self-referrals, any associated eligibility criteria (age, location, care status, etc.) and promote the annual inventory and its findings in the public. DETAILS:
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Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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May 7, 2020 | “Stop Giving Me a Number and Start Giving Me a Person”: How 22 Girls Illuminate the Cracks in the Manitoba Youth Mental – Recommendation 3 | Mental Health and Addictions , Training | Government of Manitoba , Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Manitoba provide early childhood trauma education and training about trauma and its effects to service providers across all government departments delivering services to children and youth. DETAILS:
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Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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May 7, 2020 | “Stop Giving Me a Number and Start Giving Me a Person”: How 22 Girls Illuminate the Cracks in the Manitoba Youth Mental – Recommendation 2 | Mental Health and Addictions | Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Department of Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Health and Seniors Care) demonstrates its framework and strategic plan for transformation of the youth mental health and addictions systems in Manitoba ensures equitable access to services across all areas of Manitoba, which are tailored to the unique needs of children and youth in our province. DETAILS:
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Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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May 7, 2020 | “Stop Giving Me a Number and Start Giving Me a Person”: How 22 Girls Illuminate the Cracks in the Manitoba Youth Mental – Recommendation 1 | Mental Health and Addictions | Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Department of Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Health and Seniors Care) conduct a gap analysis of the youth mental health and addictions system, based on the tiered model proposed in the Virgo Report. The gap analysis ought to speak to the overall transformation framework and strategic plan for child and youth mental health and addictions services. Further, the Manitoba Advocate recommends the gap analysis, framework, and strategic plan is released publicly to Manitobans. DETAILS:
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Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 13 | Safe Sleep | CFS Authorities , Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Thirteen: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Families work with child and family services authorities to develop a provincial standard that requires all child and family service providers to assess infants’ sleep environments as part of prescribed face-to-face contact with anyone receiving child welfare services, including all infants who are not in care. DETAILS:
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Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 12 | Safe Sleep , Training | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Twelve: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Families, as part of the changes to provincial child welfare standards announced to end the use of birth alerts, include an assessment of the infant sleep environment in every safety plan for expectant mothers, and provide mothers and primary caregivers with the safe sleep surfaces and public education information they need to ensure the safety of their child. DETAILS:
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 11 | Safe Sleep | Manitoba Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Eleven: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Collaborative Inter-departmental Working Group on Infant Mortality be reinstated and review cases of sleep-related infant deaths quarterly to look at trends and leverage this information to create and implement interventions to prevent future deaths. DETAILS:
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Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 10 | Database , Safe Sleep | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Ten: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Justice provide the resources necessary for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to develop an electronic database, in partnership with the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth, to collect and report on the incidence of and risk factors associated with all suspected sleep-related infant deaths in Manitoba. DETAILS:
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 9 | Data Collection , Safe Sleep | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Nine: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Justice and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner work with RCMP and police services across the province to develop (if necessary) and implement a form based on the CDC’s SUIDIRF data collection form, to be used by all law enforcement officers in the province who attend the scene of an infant death. DETAILS:
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 8 | Safe Sleep , Strategy | Government of Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Eight: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Canada resource an implementation strategy to expand prenatal and postnatal maternal child health programs, in consultation with First Nations and Metis Governments, into all of Manitoba’s First Nations communities. DETAILS:
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 7 | Safe Sleep | Manitoba Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Seven: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Health and Seniors Care), in consultation with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs’ First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba, develop a smoking cessation resource that prenatal healthcare providers and child welfare service providers can make available to expectant mothers. DETAILS:
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 6 | Safe Sleep | Manitoba Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Six: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Health and Seniors Care), in partnership with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs’ First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba, develop an accredited online training module on safe infant sleep practices, accessible through the Shared Health Learning Management System (LMS). DETAILS:
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 5 | Safe Sleep | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: The Manitoba Advocate recommends that public education materials (e.g., books, pamphlets, videos, posters, etc.) developed by the Government of Manitoba, as part of any safe sleep education campaign, be written in accessible language and available in the prominent Indigenous languages of Manitoba. DETAILS:
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 4 | Safe Sleep | Manitoba Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the public education campaign be informed by data presented in this report and by evidence on effective risk communication and behaviour modification. DETAILS:
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Date Last Response Received: 01/2023 Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 3 | Safe Sleep | Manitoba Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Health and Seniors Care), in partnership with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs’ First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba, and First Nations and Metis governments develop, carry out, and subsequently evaluate, a new public education campaign that raises awareness of the known risk factors associated with sleep-related infant deaths. DETAILS:
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 2 | Safe Sleep , Safe Sleep Surface | Government of Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Canada, in consultation with the First Nations governments of Manitoba, develop and implement a plan to ensure that no infant living in Manitoba First Nations communities is without a safe sleeping surface (crib, bassinette, or culturally appropriate safe alternative), in line with Jordan’s Principle. DETAILS:
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March 13, 2020 | Safe and Sound: A Special Report on the Unexpected Sleep-Related Deaths of 145 Manitoba Infants – Recommendation 1 | Safe Sleep , Safe Sleep Surface | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Manitoba develop and implement an action plan, in consultation with First Nations and Metis governments, to ensure that every infant in Manitoba under 24 months has a safe sleep surface (crib, bassinette, or culturally appropriate safe alternative) in which to sleep. The action plan ought to be targeted to both expectant parents and caregivers of infants under 24 months who cannot afford to purchase a safe sleep surface. The action plan will be designed and delivered based on the child-first and substantive equality principles. DETAILS:
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February 27, 2020 | The Slow Disappearance of Matthew: A Family’s Fight for Youth Mental Health Care in the Wake of Bullying and Mental Illness – Recommendation 8 | Legal , Proclamation of ACYA | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Eight: Proclaim the outstanding sections of the ACYA. The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Manitoba set a proclamation date for the remaining portions of The Advocate for Children and Youth Act in the spring of 2020. Date Last Response Received: 01/2023Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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February 27, 2020 | The Slow Disappearance of Matthew: A Family’s Fight for Youth Mental Health Care in the Wake of Bullying and Mental Illness – Recommendation 7 | Mental Health and Addictions , Planning | Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Seven: A transparent framework for child and youth mental health and addictions health system transformation. The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that in a commitment to transparency and accountability, Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Manitoba Health and Seniors Care) publicly release its framework and plan for transforming the youth mental health and addictions system in Manitoba so recent and anticipated investments and announcements can be understood by Manitobans not as one-off announcements, but as part of an overall tiered strategy for improving access, coordination, content, and capacity of the child and youth health care system in the province. Date Last Response Received: 01/2023Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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February 27, 2020 | The Slow Disappearance of Matthew: A Family’s Fight for Youth Mental Health Care in the Wake of Bullying and Mental Illness – Recommendation 6 | Mental Health and Addictions , Residential Treatment | Government of Manitoba , Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Six: Long-term residential mental health treatment for youth. The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Government of Manitoba, through the Department of Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Manitoba Health and Seniors Care) create a long-term, residential treatment centre for youth who are in the top tier of mental health care needs and for whom less intensive options have been ineffective. Date Last Response Received: 01/2023Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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February 27, 2020 | The Slow Disappearance of Matthew: A Family’s Fight for Youth Mental Health Care in the Wake of Bullying and Mental Illness – Recommendation 5 | Mental Health and Addictions , System Navigators | Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: Create mental health system Navigators to help children and youth. The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Health and Seniors Care) develop, implement and fund mental health and addictions system Navigators, who act as case managers for children and youth who are accessing the upper tiers of the youth mental health and addiction system, similar to Ontario’s model. These Navigators should be knowledgeable and well-trained and offer case coordination and rapid response services to ensure children and youth know their health care plan, can access appropriate services, and ensure case reviews are initiated when services are not effective. Further, much like the requirement for child and family services workers, mental health and addictions Navigators should provide services in accordance with provincial standards of care that change in their intensity and frequency according to the assessed levels of risk to a child or youth. Date Last Response Received: 01/2023Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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February 27, 2020 | The Slow Disappearance of Matthew: A Family’s Fight for Youth Mental Health Care in the Wake of Bullying and Mental Illness – Recommendation 4 | Access , Mental Health and Addictions | Manitoba Health and Seniors Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: Improve access points for children and youth experiencing a mental health crisis. The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living (now Health and Seniors Care), along with representatives from Shared Health, children’s emergency staff and child and adolescent psychiatry – in accordance with their master plan overview of Health Sciences Centre – evaluate practices at the Health Sciences Centre – Children’s Hospital Emergency Room, with the intent of developing and implementing a child and youth-centred, separate and specialized access point that meets the needs of children and youth who are experiencing a mental health crisis. Date Last Response Received: 01/2023Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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February 27, 2020 | The Slow Disappearance of Matthew: A Family’s Fight for Youth Mental Health Care in the Wake of Bullying and Mental Illness – Recommendation 3 | Bullying , Mental Health and Addictions | Manitoba Education and Training | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: Safe and Caring Schools: A Whole School Approach to Planning for Safety and Belonging is a valuable tool created by the Department of Education and is an example of best practices for creating positive school environments. The Manitoba Advocate recommends that Manitoba Education continue its work to promote these supporting documents with Manitoba school divisions because all schools in Manitoba should be implementing the optional tools in the Safe and Caring Schools supporting documents. Date Last Response Received: 01/2021Date Response Due: 01/2022 |
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February 27, 2020 | The Slow Disappearance of Matthew: A Family’s Fight for Youth Mental Health Care in the Wake of Bullying and Mental Illness – Recommendation 2 | Policy , Suspensions and Expulsions | Manitoba Education and Training | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Department of Education, with participation from all school divisions, develop a province-wide policy to limit, reduce, and phase-out exclusionary practices, except in situations of imminent safety risk to students and staff. This policy should provide evidence-informed disciplinary alternatives that are in line with the best interests of the child and respect the right of children and youth to education. Date Last Response Received: 01/2022Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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February 27, 2020 | The Slow Disappearance of Matthew: A Family’s Fight for Youth Mental Health Care in the Wake of Bullying and Mental Illness – Recommendation 1 | Mental Health and Addictions , Schools | Manitoba Education and Training | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Education, in conjunction with Manitoba school divisions, highlight and promote the provincial learning objectives that focus on mental health literacy and mental well-being coping skills for all students from Grades K-12. Secondly, Manitoba Education and Manitoba school divisions should ensure that training is available to all teachers that will support and facilitate their classroom skills in mental health promotion. Date Last Response Received: 01/2021Date Response Due: 01/2022 |
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March 12, 2019 | A Place Where it Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine – Recommendation 5 | Missing Youth , Sexual Exploitation | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Families, in consultation with other government departments and relevant stakeholders, create a new protocol to ensure that response plans are created for missing youth in general, and sexually exploited youth in particular who are at risk of imminent harm. DETAILS – Manitoba Families to ensure that this protocol:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 12, 2019 | A Place Where it Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine – Recommendation 4 | Safe and Secure Treatment Facilities | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Manitoba government, through its Deputy Ministers of Health and Social Policy and Priorities (DMHSPP) committee, work with the government’s Legislation and Strategic Policy Branch to analyse the province of Alberta’s Protection of Sexually Exploited Children Act and Alberta’s Drug-Endangered Children Act to determine how safe and secure treatment facilities can be introduced in Manitoba. It is DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 12, 2019 | A Place Where it Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine – Recommendation 3 | Victim Support Services | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Justice evaluate the continuum of victim support services for children and develop quality control measures to ensure that services are child-centred and provided in a timely manner.
Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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March 12, 2019 | A Place Where it Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine – Recommendation 2 | Child and Youth Mental Health | Manitoba Health and Community Wellness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health and Seniors Care expedite the public release of a clear implementation plan to address the child and youth-specific recommendations contained in the report on Improving Access and Coordination of Mental Health and Addiction Services: A Provincial Strategy for all Manitobans (“Virgo Report”). DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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March 12, 2019 | A Place Where it Feels Like Home: The Story of Tina Fontaine – Recommendation 1 | School Suspensions , and Expulsions | Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Education and Training ensure its recently established Commission on Kindergarten to Grade 12 Education review the measurement of and response to absenteeism across Manitoba. It is further recommended that the Commission review the use of out-of-school suspensions and expulsions, with the goal of developing a province-wide strategy to limit, reduce, and phase-out exclusionary practices, DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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February 21, 2019 | Learning from Nelson Mandela: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement and Pepper Spray in Manitoba Youth Custody Facilities – Recommendation 6 | Justice Alternatives , Mental Health Treatment | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Six: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Justice and Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living immediately embark on the development of a specialized health facility led and run by mental health professionals to provide evidence-informed programming for youth with mental illnesses or cognitive vulnerabilities in custody, including youth who are found not criminally responsible. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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February 21, 2019 | Learning from Nelson Mandela: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement and Pepper Spray in Manitoba Youth Custody Facilities – Recommendation 5 | Justice Alternatives | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Justice respond to the overrepresentation of youth with mental illnesses, cognitive vulnerabilities, and childhood trauma by developing an action plan with Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living and Manitoba Families for the implementation of evidence-informed and culturally-safe therapeutic behavioural management alternatives to solitary confinement and pepper spray, with the goals of Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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February 21, 2019 | Learning from Nelson Mandela: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement and Pepper Spray in Manitoba Youth Custody Facilities – Recommendation 4 | Pepper Spray | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Justice immediately prohibit the use of pepper spray in youth custody facilities except in situations of immediate risk to life* to correctional staff or other youth in custody by amending The Correctional Services Regulation. DETAILS:
*For the purpose of this recommendation, ‘immediate’ shall be defined as proximate danger to life as perceived by an objective third party in the circumstances. Date Last Response Received: 01/2022Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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February 21, 2019 | Learning from Nelson Mandela: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement and Pepper Spray in Manitoba Youth Custody Facilities – Recommendation 3 | Solitary Confinement | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Justice collect, track, analyse, and report on incidents of segregation across youth custody facilities to ensure transparency and accountability. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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February 21, 2019 | Learning from Nelson Mandela: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement and Pepper Spray in Manitoba Youth Custody Facilities – Recommendation 2 | Solitary Confinement | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Manitoba government and Manitoba Justice restrict the use of any form of segregation under 24 hours in youth custody facilities through an amendment to The Correctional Services Regulation. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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February 21, 2019 | Learning from Nelson Mandela: A Report on the Use of Solitary Confinement and Pepper Spray in Manitoba Youth Custody Facilities – Recommendation 1 | Solitary Confinement | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Manitoba government and Manitoba Justice amend The Correctional Services Act to prohibit the solitary confinement of youth for a period exceeding 24 hours, per the Nelson Mandela Rules. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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December 13, 2018 | In Need of Protection: Angel's Story – Recommendation 6 | Substance Use Treatment | Manitoba Health | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Six: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health and Seniors Care, in collaboration with the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba and other stakeholders, amend The Youth Drug Stabilization (Support for Parents) Act so that longer warrants or successive warrants are possible to ensure children and youth get the medically supported withdrawal management services they need based on evidence-informed treatment best practices for addictions (e.g. methamphetamine, alcohol, opioids). DETAILS – Work to this effect should:
Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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December 13, 2018 | In Need of Protection: Angel's Story – Recommendation 5 | Safe and Secure Treatment Facilities | Manitoba Health and Community Wellness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health and Seniors Care and Department of Families, in collaboration with the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba, (1) review and reform the province’s treatment programs for children and youth and (2) create safe and secure facilities for youth in Manitoba who are sexually exploited and harmfully involved in substance misuse. DETAILS – This should:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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December 13, 2018 | In Need of Protection: Angel's Story – Recommendation 4 | Accountability , CFS Service Standards | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Minister of Families, through the Child and Family Services Division (CFSD), in collaboration with the four child and family services Authorities, (1) conduct an evidence-informed review and update of existing provincial service standards, and (2) establish province-wide measures of service accountability through a provincial quality assurance framework. Both the service standards and the quality assurance measures must be consistent throughout the province, culturally appropriate, and supported and enforced by the governing child and family services Authorities within their child and family services agencies. As per provincial legislation, quality assurance measures at the authority level must then be assessed and monitored by the Minister of Families. DETAILS – This province-wide quality assurance framework should include:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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December 13, 2018 | In Need of Protection: Angel's Story – Recommendation 3 | Sexual Exploitation | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Communication Services Manitoba, Manitoba Education and Training, Manitoba Families, Manitoba Justice, Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living, Manitoba Status of Women, and Manitoba Indigenous and Northern Relations collaborate with youth advisory groups, the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, Winnipeg Police Service, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Indigenous and community organizations, and the Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth to carry out ongoing public education via awareness campaigns that (a) denounce the sexual exploitation of children and youth and (b) raise awareness about the ongoing demand for purchasing sex and/or sexually exploiting children and youth in Manitoba. DETAILS – This plan should:
Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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December 13, 2018 | In Need of Protection: Angel's Story – Recommendation 2 | Sexual Exploitation | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Education and Training, Manitoba Families, Manitoba Justice, and Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living engage with experts in childhood trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in order to develop a trauma prevention and response plan of action to (a) educate service providers and the public on ACEs, and (b) create appropriate, accessible immediate and long-term evidence informed interventions to address the trauma crisis that is ongoing in Manitoba. DETAILS – These activities should include:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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December 13, 2018 | In Need of Protection: Angel's Story – Recommendation 1 | Adverse Childhood Experiences , Childhood Trauma | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Education and Training, Manitoba Families, Manitoba Justice, and Manitoba Health, Seniors and Active Living engage with experts in childhood trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in order to develop a trauma prevention and response plan of action to (a) educate service providers and the public on ACEs, and (b) create appropriate, accessible immediate and long-term evidence-informed interventions to address the trauma crisis that is ongoing in Manitoba. Date Last Response Received: 02/2023Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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October 19, 2018 | Documenting the Decline: The Dangerous Space Between Good Intentions and Meaningful Interventions – Recommendation 6 | Training | Manitoba Families | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Six: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Department of Families in partnership with the Child and Family Services (CFS) Authorities: (1) clarify training content and expectations of workers and supervisors with respect to CFS minimum provincial standards, and (2) prioritize the development of high quality, culturally appropriate, modernized, and accessible training on the minimum provincial service standards within two years. The Advocate further recommends that all existing workers who have not received training on minimum standards and all new CFS workers be required to complete this training within three to six months. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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October 19, 2018 | Documenting the Decline: The Dangerous Space Between Good Intentions and Meaningful Interventions – Recommendation 5 | Youth Probation Orders | Manitoba Justice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Five: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Department of Justice improve communication across the divisions within its department, including probation services, victim services, and prosecution services, as well as with the legal community (e.g. legal aid), and the courts to ensure that probation orders are relevant, effective, child-centred, realistic (given limitations in remote and rural communities), and achievable. The Advocate further recommends that the Department of Justice evaluate their capacity to provide the programming for youth to meet their probation conditions and determine whether or not existing programs and services are sufficient and accessible to youth living in rural and remote locations. When gaps are identified, strategies for culturally appropriate alternatives and program delivery need to be developed.
Date Response Due: 08/2024 |
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October 19, 2018 | Documenting the Decline: The Dangerous Space Between Good Intentions and Meaningful Interventions – Recommendation 4 | Substance Use Treatment | Manitoba Health and Community Wellness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Four: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that Manitoba Health and Seniors Care, together with front-line addiction service providers in Manitoba, Healthy Child Manitoba, Indigenous communities, and subject matter experts on addictions, immediately respond to the lack of effective substance use treatment services for youth by prioritizing the development and implementation of a youth addiction action strategy. This strategy should be based on best practice evidence with the objective of ensuring that children and youth across Manitoba can exercise their right to the highest attainable standard of health. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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October 19, 2018 | Documenting the Decline: The Dangerous Space Between Good Intentions and Meaningful Interventions – Recommendation 3 | Coordination , Mental Health Services | Manitoba Health and Community Wellness | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Three: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends Manitoba Health and Seniors Care implement, in full, recommendation 5.4, per the Virgo report, as follows: Establish a concerted cross-sectoral process to reduce perceived and real jurisdictional boundaries that challenge access to, and coordination of, services. The process of developing this [Manitoba’s Mental Health and Addictions] Strategy, as well as any new opportunities and resources for working together (e.g., through Jordan’s Principle), should be viewed as an accelerator of a new period of trust and collaboration based on shared beliefs and strengths among all partners, and should include an interest in wellness, hope and family/community health. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |
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October 19, 2018 | Documenting the Decline: The Dangerous Space Between Good Intentions and Meaningful Interventions – Recommendation 2 | School Suspensions | Manitoba Education and Early Childhood Learning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation Two: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Department of Education and Training through Healthy Child Manitoba, and with participation from all school divisions, conduct an urgent review of the current use of out-of-school suspensions and expulsions, and develop a province-wide strategy to limit, reduce, and phase-out exclusionary practices, except in situations of imminent safety risk to students and staff. This review and strategy should provide evidence-informed disciplinary alternatives that are in line with the best interest of the child and respect the right of children and youth to education. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2023 |
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October 19, 2018 | Documenting the Decline: The Dangerous Space Between Good Intentions and Meaningful Interventions – Recommendation 1 | Coordination , Planning | Government of Manitoba | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Recommendation One: The Manitoba Advocate for Children and Youth recommends that the Province of Manitoba respond to the persistent lack of coordination between services for children and youth by developing and implementing a provincial strategy to train service providers on the requirement to share information across systems and ensure children and youth are at the centre of all service provision. This is to be developed, delivered, and evaluated in consultation with Manitoba Education and Training, Manitoba Families, Manitoba Justice, and Manitoba Health, Healthy Living and Seniors. DETAILS:
Date Response Due: 01/2024 |