As part of the province’s ongoing efforts to prevent crime, youth-focused community organizations are invited to apply for Lighthouses Program funding. The Lighthouses Program is accepting proposals for five grants of $12,000 from community groups that provide recreational, educational, cultural and life-skills programs for youth across Nova Scotia.
Since the Lighthouses Program’s launch in [...]
Central Region Receives Recreation Funding
Health Promotion and Protection
June 17, 2010 2:24 PM
NOTE: A list of investments awarded in the Central region follows this release.
Recreation facilities in the Central region, including Halifax Regional Municipality, will receive $549,000 through 19 grants announced today, June 17, under the Recreation Facility Development Program.
“Government is [...]
NOVA SCOTIA HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY
COMMITTEE
ON
COMMUNITY SERVICES
Department of Community Services
Re: Affordable Housing Program/Homelessness
WITNESSES
Department of Community Services
Ms. Judith Ferguson, Deputy Minister
Mr. Dave Ryan, Executive Director – Employment Support, Income Assistance & Housing
Mr. Dan Troke, Director – Housing Services
MADAM CHAIRMAN: I’d like to call to order this meeting of the Standing Committee on Community Services. Welcome very much, [...]
MR. LEONARD PREYRA: Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Community Services. For two years, Alice Housing has been providing an intensive program to help children who have witnessed abuse or who have been abused. Healing the Bruises is the only interventionist one-on-one program east of Montreal for children in second-stage housing. The [...]
MR. LEONARD PREYRA: Mr. Speaker, I hereby give notice that on a future day I shall move the adoption of the following resolution:
Whereas Keith MacMillan, Ben McDade and Matt Campbell are student athletes at Saint Mary’s and Dalhousie Universities; and
Whereas Keith MacMillan and members of the Saint Mary’s mens and women’s soccer teams are [...]
MR. LEONARD PREYRA: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I welcome the minister’s statement on the government Strategy for Children and Youth. Through you, I would thank her staff and staff in the Departments of Health, Health Promotion and Protection, Justice, and Education for their collaboration and attempt to coordinate a policy in this area.Although this strategy [...]
HALIFAX – Federal government plans to rewrite portions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act are “carefully crafted to do nothing” about stopping the release of potentially dangerous young offenders before trial, says a senior Halifax police officer.
Chris McNeil, the city’s deputy chief of police, used some blunt language Monday to critique federal reforms, saying they [...]