Health and Social Development Committee

Mental Health and Addictions • Child Care • Accessibility Legislation • Climate Change and Health

Priorities

Respond to policy matters falling within the scope of the Committee

Participate in working groups and committees to ensure local government interests are represented

Work with the Province, Societies and other associations to seek out greater opportunities for improved health in BC

Progress to Date

• Provided input for the Ministry of Mental Health and

Addictions on the decriminalization of illicit drugs • Continued to advise the Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction on the accessibility legislation and regulation development • Worked with the Ministry of Children and Family

Development on consultation with local governments with respect to their role in child care as it becomes integrated into the broader learning environment

• Member of the BC Healthy Living Alliance, an alliance of province-wide health related organizations addressing the impacts of chronic disease • Co- Chair of the Emergency Medical Assistants Education

Fund which distributes education grants for paramedic training • Member of the Ministry of Health’s Healthy Communities

Working Group, which encourages health authorities and local governments to work together to create healthy communities • Member of the Ministry of Children and Family

Development’s Child Care Reference Group • Member of the Advisory Table for the Ministry of Health’s integrated provincial approach to food security • Member of the provincial Decriminalization Core Planning

Table

• Received delegations from the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions on complex care housing, homelessness, harm reduction, and decriminalization • Met with the Ministry of Health and health authorities to outline the Committee’s interest in a provincial approach to the health impacts of climate change, which includes extreme heat planning • Met with the Community Action Initiative to advise on harm reduction in BC communities

Committee Members

Councillor Pete Fry, Chair Councillor Lori Mindnich, Vice Chair Councillor Laura Dupont Councillor Cori Ramsay Mayor Sarrah Storey