By CHAT News Today/with files from The Canadian Press

Alberta should better prepare young people in care for adults life: report

Mar 14, 2017 | 2:46 PM

EDMONTON — Alberta’s child and youth advocate says the province must do a better job of preparing young people who are in government care for life as adults.

Del Graff released his report into the death of an Aboriginal man who was killed nine months after he turned 18.

Graff says the man, known as Peter, spent most of his childhood with relatives until he was an adolescent, before being taken out of his community and placed in group care. Graff says Peter did not get the help and counselling he had requested.

He says the province has good policies on the books but needs to do more to ensure that staff understand and act on them.

Graff also notes that his office raised similar concerns to the government in December 2015.

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