Sask. government to invest over $220K in Île-à-la-Crosse Friendship Centre | 24CA News
The Saskatchewan authorities introduced Friday it is going to be investing greater than $223,000 in a renewed three-year settlement with the Île-à-la-Crosse Friendship Centre’s neighborhood assist program for youth.
“The Île-à-la-Crosse Friendship Centre provides youth in the community with a welcoming place to come together, share traditions and culture, and find new opportunities in the community,” Athabasca MLA Jim Lemaigre stated on behalf of Minister of Justice and Attorney General Bronwyn Eyre.
The Community Support program offers youth with schooling and employment alternatives in the neighborhood and helps their continued engagement and success with their schooling or employment placement. It additionally offers structured, supervised actions primarily based on youth curiosity and assist for these awaiting placement, corresponding to cooking courses, fishing journeys, beading courses, medication walks and psychological well being workshops.
The assist program offers cultural programming and actions to advertise conventional cultural actions to roughly 80 youth in the neighborhood annually.
The Île-à-la-Crosse Friendship Centre additionally presents entry to applications corresponding to Aboriginal Head Start, Canada Prenatal Nutrition, Kids First North, Honouring Her Spark and the Reaching Home. The centre additionally presents a neighborhood pantry, a lunch kitchen, and supportive, transitional housing inside the neighborhood.
The Île-à-la-Crosse Friendship Centre was established in 1992.
In a press launch, the province stated its 2023-24 funds additionally contains $32,000 for North Sask Victim Services in Île-à-la-Crosse, which offers culturally delicate assist companies and assists victims of crime in navigating the prison justice system.
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