Aboriginal Healing Foundation Funding for Survivors and Families

Attention: Assignment Editor, Health/Medical Editor, News Editor, Photo Editor, Government/Political Affairs Editor

Vancouver, BC, Meda Advisory – April 6, 2010 – Representatives of Aboriginal organizations will speak of the direct impact of the closing of the Aboriginal Healing Foundation on Indian Residential School Survivors, their families and their communities here in British Columbia.Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Place: Union of BC Indian Chiefs Office, Suite 500 – 342 Water Street, Vancouver BC

Time: 10:00 AM

Who: Representatives from the Indian Residential School Survivors Society, Nlaka’pamux Health and Healing Society, Inter Tribal Health Authority’s First Nations House of Healing; Charlene Belleau, Assembly of First Nations – Manager, Indian Residential School Unit; Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President – UBCIC; Chief Bob Chamberlin, Secretary-Treasurer – UBCIC; Elders; and Friends

/For further information:http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/

IN: HEALTH, JUSTICE, POLITICS

For more information, please contact

Don Bain, Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs
Primary Phone: 604-684-0231
Secondary Phone: 604-831-9709
E-mail: ubcic@ubcic.bc.ca