P.A. To Get Youth Addictions Treatment Facility

P.A. To Get Youth Addictions Treatment Facility

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 12:17

The provincial government is finalizing plans to construct a 15-bed youth addictions treatment facility in Prince Albert.

The ministry of Health has reached a capital funding agreement with the Prince Albert Grand Council and the local health authority.

Community care branch director Roger Carriere says the facility could be up and running within a year’s time, depending on the availability of contractors.

Carriere says the partnership is a unique arrangement for all of the parties involved.

“While there have been certainly collaborative relationships before, I think this is the first time that the provincial government and First Nations have actually worked together to build a facility,” he says.

Carriere adds that work is already underway to design programming for the centre.