Aboriginal centre gets OK to create more child-care support – Canada.com

Aboriginal centre gets OK to create more child-care support

DAILY NEWS MAY 8, 2012

A new child-care centre will open soon to help young mothers with the support and skills they need to raise children.

The Tillicum Lelum Aboriginal Friendship Centre has won a development permit to build a two-storey mother and child-care support centre on Tenth Street. It will be the latest addition to the growing south-end service site and an important program for teen mothers seeking help stabilizing their lives, support workers say.

The $2.9-million facility is still in the early fundraising stages, although preliminary design plans have been created. Centre staff members say the facility will meet the growing need for child care in south Nanaimo and provide young mothers with the tools they need to keep their children out of the foster-care system.

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