Showing posts with label aboriginal youth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label aboriginal youth. Show all posts

Friday, August 27, 2010

We want YOUR stories!!


Hey Everyone!
The HLN is looking to add to our Personal Stories section... if you have a story of how you or your family or your community has been affected by suicide, or perhaps you or your family or your community are doing something to Honour Life ... then send it our way!!

Send your submissions to: eboudreau @ naho.ca

Monday, July 12, 2010

Prevention & Intervention Program Aims to Bring Issue of Suicide Out of the Shadows

100 Mile –This fall Interior Health will be partnering with the South Cariboo Suicide Prevention Advisory Committee in order to build a suicide safer community. The partnership project is to provide the internationally recognized ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) Program in September this year, which will increase the community’s capacity to respond actively to persons at risk for suicide.


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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Nunavut to launch anti-suicide campaign

Plagued with a suicide epidemic, Nunavut is embarking on an “ambitious” plan to bring its suicide rate in line with – or lower than – the national average through a prevention strategy that is expected to be rolled out in June.
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