NOVA SCOTIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, MAINTENANCE ENFORCEMENT AND VICTIM SERVICES DIVISION

Published purpose

The Nova Scotia Family Information Liaison Unit will continue to provide a dedicated liaison function between families of missing and murdered Indigenous persons (MMIP) and other agencies and services, including the criminal justice system, social services, policing and Mi’kmaw Legal Support Network. Families of MMIP will be supported through therapeutic and/or culturally appropriate healing supports. The FILU will continue their partnership with the Nova Scotia Native Women's Association who will provide direct service to family members of MMIP in all thirteen First Nation communities in Nova Scotia as well as those located in other urban and rural areas. An additional Community Outreach Specialist will be hired for the Sydney area of Cape Breton to focus on outreach to support the high population of vulnerable Indigenous persons in that area.