Feds announce funding for restorative justice program for B.C. Indigenous youth

By John Chunn ( August 14, 2019, 2:29 PM EDT) -- Justice Minister David Lametti on Aug. 13 announced $418,760 over three years for the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society’s Xw-l-ale-cecemala: Kids Come to Life Program. Using a restorative justice model and a focus on culturally based rehabilitation and reintegration, Xw-l-ale cecemala will provide services for urban Indigenous youth involved, or at risk of being involved, in the criminal justice system....