Getting women out of Pinegrove Correctional Centre and back into regular life will be made easier thanks to a cooperation that the Saskatoon Tribal Council and the Saskatchewan government announced.
Christine Tell, minister of corrections, policing, and public safety, announced $3. 6 million in funding over the following three years for the Saskatoon Tribal Council to work on a fresh pilot project.
There will be two further one-year extensions available after the first three years.
The initiative, dubbed “turning their life around” in Cree, is named “kwskcik iskwwak” and will be developed and run by indigenous people. Its main objectives will be recovery, wellness, education, and eventual reintegration of women into the workforce.
These are some of the things that, according to tribal chief Mark Arcand of the Saskatoon Tribal Council, many Indigenous communities currently lack.
Therefore, Arcand emphasised that “we really need to make a conscious effort in the city of Saskatoon where they’ll be arriving to provide a lot of them with healing at this point so that when they go back if they have limited services, let’s say mental health, or addictions worker, psychologist that some of the communities may not have, that we’re getting those services to the inside Saskatoon.”
In order to use it for the project, the STC is currently looking for a building in Saskatoon.
Anything beyond the initial three years and two years of prospective extensions, Minister Christine Tell told the reporters, will need to be revisited at a later time. She said that she has faith in the STC to execute this plan effectively.
We’re attempting to address that because the STC is aware of the needs of the offenders in Pinegrove, and the appropriate individuals are there at the appropriate table for those discussions, according to Tell.
The experiment, which is set to start this fall, focuses mostly on women who repeatedly commit small offences.
To assist women in reintegrating into their society, the Saskatoon Tribal Council
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