A Youth Leadership Workshop in Regina has inspired an RD Parker student to make a change in Thompson.

Last weekend Special Constable Robert Cleveland and gr.9 student Frank Settee-Beardy joined other youth and RCMP members from across Canada for a workshop that focused on vulnerable and Aboriginal communities. Cleveland says they discussed the different issues in Thompson.

“We also looked at some of the different issues across Canada with a number of other youth. And then we developed an action plan, looking at some ways that we can get more youth involved in activities so they don’t go down that path, or at least build up some skills to resist those kind of temptations that we have in our community.”

Hunter’s action plan includes developing an RCMP cadet program in Thompson, which would eventually expand into a larger program called the Northern Manitoba Cadets.