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Two NAN First Nations are working with an organization called First Nations Youth At Risk to develop and deliver services supporting their young people. Weenusk and Pikangikum First Nations each received $50,000 from FNYAR last year to develop new youth programs. Click here to read the newspaper article in the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal describing their local program.

First Nations Youth At Risk (FNYAR) is hosting a national conference on youth at risk on April 17-18 at Musqueam First Nation in Vancouver, BC. More than 50 First Nations youth and youth workers will gather to exchange strategies on youth at risk and to learn of new approaches to youth at risk by several First Nation communities. Cindy Blackstock, Executive Director, First Nations Youth and Family Caring Society will be the guest speaker. This is an important conference for anyone working in the First Nations and Aboriginal youth at risk field. If you wish to attend, please register by contacting Harvey McCue, President and Coordinator, FNYAR, at 613-237-3033 or hmccue@sympatico.ca before April 8, 2004.

FNYAR is a charitable not for profit organization managed and directed by First Nations. It provides annual grants to First Nations to work with youth at risk. For more information on FNYAR, visit http://fnyar.ca.

Today the community of Poplar Hill will be visited by the Ontario Lieutenant Governor. He will be travelling with the Nishnawbe Aski Nation Grand Chief Stan Beardy. They will be visiting the school as well as the band office. The visit should last a couple of hours. They will be meeting with the Chief and Council as well as the school board and the health unit. We are planning to provide them with a tour of Poplar Hill.