Funding restored to aboriginal youth program

Delegates to the annual meeting of the National Association of Friendship Centres in Whitehorse received some good news early on Monday when it was announced the federal government was going to restore funding to an important youth program.

Funding for the Cultural Connections for Aboriginal Youth Program was frozen in June.

Delilah Pillai is the executive director of the Skookum Jim Friendship Centre in Whitehorse. Click on the link below to hear her speak with CBC Yukon's Leonard Linklater.