Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, yesterday in my Member's statement I spoke about issues that concern families and children. I followed up with questions to the Minister of Education, Culture and Employment on the Healthy Children Initiative which I referred to earlier as the Early Intervention Program. Mr. Speaker, as I said yesterday, I believe that if we are going to focus on families and improving the future we need to work on the whole family not just pieces of the family. I think that although we are moving in the right direction of trying to focus on earlier problems that occur in homes and the ability of children to learn in the school environment, I hope that we will be able to take some of the concerns being raised and input them into any changes that would be coming, as the Minister said, out of a review. Hopefully that review will happen sooner than later. We know, Mr. Speaker, at times once programs are established they are very difficult to change. I am hoping that any of the reviews that are done are done as soon as possible and that changes to the program can be made quickly so that we can definitely have a positive impact on families across the north. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Floyd Roland on Member's Statement 126-13(5): Analysis Of Family Support Programs
In the Legislative Assembly on January 30th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Member's Statement 126-13(5): Analysis Of Family Support Programs
Item 3: Members' Statements
January 29th, 1998
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