Each community will usually have a recreation coordinator and they’ll hire their own youth workers as their budget allows.
What we’ve been able to do through the work of this Assembly is put more money into regional youth officers to work with the communities. We’ve also made the multi-sport games and the Youth Ambassador Program permanent line items in the budget. That assures us that those items are going to stay as part of the Legislative Assembly’s way of doing business.
The youth centre, the youth sports event through the work of the Rural and Remote Communities Committee have put almost $400,000 into multi-sport or regional sport games so the youth have an opportunity. We’ll continue to work with the communities.
The Member also makes a good point that we need to ensure this is all part of a transition document so that the 17
Legislative Assembly can carry on
some of the work that was started in the 16
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