Media Advisory: Minister Dempster to Join MP Jones and Chief Hart to Announce New Placement Resource for Innu Children and Youth

Children, Seniors and Social Development
August 15, 2018

The Honourable Lisa Dempster, Minister of Children, Seniors and Social Development, will join Yvonne Jones, Member of Parliament for Labrador, on behalf of the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Indigenous Services Canada, and Chief Eugene Hart, Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation tomorrow (Thursday, August 16) to announce a new Innu led group home placement resource for Innu children and youth.

UPDATE:

Please note that the location for tomorrow’s announcement related to a new Innu led group home placement resource for Innu children and youth has changed.

The announcement involving the Honourable Lisa Dempster, Minister of Children, Seniors and Social Development, Yvonne Jones, Member of Parliament for Labrador, on behalf of the Honourable Jane Philpott, Minister of Indigenous Services Canada, and Chief Eugene Hart, Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation, will now take place tomorrow (Thursday, August 16) at the Mary May Healing Centre in Sheshatshiu beginning at 12:00 p.m.

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Media contact
Gina MacArthur
Children, Seniors and Social Development
709-729-3768, 730-2977
[email protected]

2018 08 15 12:15 p.m.

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