About 60 front-line health-care workers from First Nations communities across the province have gathered at McMaster's downtown Centre for Continuing Education for an intensive six-day training program.

The goal is to help Ontario's aboriginal communities improve the case management skills of their home- and community-care workers so that they can better assess the needs of their clients and help them receive the best possible care that might be available.

This is the third group of people to pass through the program since December and when this session ends this weekend, almost all of Ontario's 134 First Nations communities will have sent at least one representative.

Read all about it in today's Hamilton Spectator.

(The Hamilton Spectator, Jan. 23, 2003)