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Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. highlights Head Start, wellness centers, housing and cancer partnership in State of the Nation address
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Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. delivered the State of the Nation, describing recent and planned investments in Head Start facilities, wellness centers, a College of Optometry partnership, housing programs, and a Mercy cancer center partnership; several funding acts and numerical project details were cited.
Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. presented a State of the Nation address to the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council on Monday, outlining recent facility openings and planned investments in early childhood education, public health, housing and regional health partnerships.
“It was the $40,500,000 Head Start, the flagship Head Start building here in Tahlequah, 64,000 square feet, 20 classrooms,” Hoskin said, describing the new facility as an investment “worthy first and foremost, of the young people who will come through that building.” He credited the Berna Thompson Early Childhood Education Act for enabling Head Start replacements across the Nation.
Hoskin described the Carson Wellness Center in Stilwell as “an amazing facility, 75,000 square feet,” funded by the…
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