La Ronge Family and Child Services unveils new riverside office space
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It was a busy day for the staff at La Ronge Family and Child Services, as they hosted an open house so the public could tour their new facility Friday.
“It allows our family services, child protection, and foster care programs to all be in one building,” Director Dexter Kinequon said. “They were situated in several buildings before, and were accommodated in different office spaces.”
Kinequon said the single-storey building along the Montreal River in Air Ronge cost $2.5 million and is 5,000-square-feet in size. While staff first moved in May 9, he said they wanted the public, partners, and shareholders to see the new space up close. The lot was originally purchased several years ago, Kinequon noted, and construction began last fall.
The director said the organization has become much bigger in the last six years after the Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB) signed an agreement with the provincial government to provide family and child services off-reserve. He noted the agency is the only one in all of Canada to have such an arrangement, as it covers the local First Nation as well as Air Ronge, Brabant, the Hamlet of Stanley Mission, La Ronge, Pinehouse Lake, and everywhere in between.
