An important meeting today for our Medical Officer of Health.
Doctor Hazel Lynn is meeting with Deputy Minister of Health Promotion Angela Longo about saving the Youth Action Alliance program.
The Grey Bruce Health Unit has received some funding to keep the program running for a few more weeks.
But Doctor Lynn would like a total of 134 thousand dollars to keep the program going until March.
The province announced earlier this summer that it would end the funding for the program to fight teen smoking.
Doctor Lynn says she will argue their youth are already doing what the province wants — and that is more than fighting teen smoking.
Doctor Lynn notes their youth talk to students about obesity and dental hygiene and they have a website that talks about safe tattoos and piercing’s.
She hopes the province will look at the Grey Bruce program as a model for other health units across Ontario.