Choose Life supports youth in northern FirstNations

By  Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter  In the year or so that she’s worked with Nishnawbe Aski Nation’s Choose Life program, Constance Lake First Nation member Mallory Solomon has “seen a lot of good progress within my community.” “Now there’s a place where you can go hang out and do activities – there’s a safe space in my community that Choose Life was able to establish, a place where you can just hang out, chill on the couch,” Solomon said from Niagara Falls, where NAN Choose Life is holding its annual general meeting. The clinical psychology student said she appreciates how Choose Life has established safe places where First Nation youth “can be themselves.” “And especially I think it’s important that we build more spaces for our two-spirit LGBTQ+…

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