Feds, province commit $10M to NAN student safety plan – Tbnewswatch.com

Nishnawbe Aski Nation held an emergency chiefs meeting in July to draft plan to address concerns about safety of Indigenous youth in Thunder Bay.

THUNDER BAY – The federal and provincial governments are committing $10 million towards Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s action plan for Indigenous students coming to Thunder Bay for the upcoming school year.

The funding announcement was made jointly by federal Indigenous and Northern Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett, provincial Education Minister Mitzie Hunter and NAN Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler in a statement on Wednesday.

The federal funding – $4.67 million over three years – brings the total amount of new federal funding for students who leave their communities to $14.3 million, according to the statement. That money will go towards coordinated on-call workers, increased accommodation rates, a boarding home pilot program and an urban living curriculum to talk about health, safety and succeeding in school away from home.

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