Are you concerned about the alarming rates of suicide among First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth in Canada? Are you between the ages of 17 and 30 and have experience with suicide prevention? Do you feel like you have something to contribute to Aboriginal youth suicide prevention? If so, the Honouring Life Network (HLN) wants to hear from you!
A program of the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO), the HLN is actively recruiting First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth between the ages of 17 to 30 to be a part of the HLN Youth Advisory Committee.
The primary purpose of this committee is to contribute your personal or professional experience with suicide and/or suicide prevention towards the ongoing and upcoming initiatives of the HLN. Though suicide is often a difficult subject to discuss, it is an important issue that has affected many First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth across Canada.
Your opinions, thoughts, ideas, and initiatives are important when developing new programs and resources in suicide prevention. Moreover, the HLN believes that you – the youth – are able to provide some of the best guidance and contributions towards suicide prevention for yourself and your peers.
Click here for more information about the Committee>>
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
The HLN launches suicide prevention video contest
OTTAWA, ON — In celebration of World Suicide Prevention Day, the Honouring Life Network (HLN), a project of the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO), announced an exciting new contest for First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth.
The initiative, called the HLN Suicide Prevention Video Contest, is open to First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth between the ages of 17 to 30. Youth are encouraged to submit a short video to the HLN YouTube channel that represents their creative expressions, experiences, thoughts, and initiatives regarding suicide prevention and awareness. Video cameras are being provided by the HLN if youth are unable to supply their own equipment.
Click here for more>>
The initiative, called the HLN Suicide Prevention Video Contest, is open to First Nations, Inuit and Métis youth between the ages of 17 to 30. Youth are encouraged to submit a short video to the HLN YouTube channel that represents their creative expressions, experiences, thoughts, and initiatives regarding suicide prevention and awareness. Video cameras are being provided by the HLN if youth are unable to supply their own equipment.
Click here for more>>
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Too many young lives cut short
Carol Goar
SANDY LAKE FIRST NATION
For most of his career, Bert Lauwers was an emergency room doctor in one of Ontario's busiest hospitals. He was the kind of physician anyone would want to encounter at a time of trauma: calm, efficient and conscientious.
But the more bodies he patched up, the more certain he became that the real job of a healer was to prevent needless deaths and injuries. "As an emergency doctor, it was the easiest thing in the world to address medical conditions and make the patient feel better," he said. "But when death is entangled with social factors, it becomes much more complicated."
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SANDY LAKE FIRST NATION
For most of his career, Bert Lauwers was an emergency room doctor in one of Ontario's busiest hospitals. He was the kind of physician anyone would want to encounter at a time of trauma: calm, efficient and conscientious.
But the more bodies he patched up, the more certain he became that the real job of a healer was to prevent needless deaths and injuries. "As an emergency doctor, it was the easiest thing in the world to address medical conditions and make the patient feel better," he said. "But when death is entangled with social factors, it becomes much more complicated."
Click here to read more>>
Monday, August 31, 2009
Metis health care providers to benefit from mental health care expertise of Providence Care and Queen's University
SUDBURY, ON, Aug. 24 /CNW Telbec/ - The Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) is renewing its landmark agreement with Queen's University and leading health care provider Providence Care, which specializes in mental health.
The agreement expands the MNO's mental health resources, training and resource capacity across the province through a partnership with Kingston-based Providence Care and the Centre for Health Services and Research Policy at Queen's.
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The agreement expands the MNO's mental health resources, training and resource capacity across the province through a partnership with Kingston-based Providence Care and the Centre for Health Services and Research Policy at Queen's.
Click here to read more>>
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Letting Aboriginal Youth Shape Their Future
First published Aug 25, 2009
Glen Roberts [Bio] Vice President of Research and Development with Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN).
Over a decade ago, in response to fragmented and reactive programming, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) called for a national Aboriginal youth policy that would involve Aboriginal groups as equal partners.
Including Aboriginal youth in the development of policy that directly concerns their welfare was seen as the first step to their empowerment.
Click here to read more>>
Glen Roberts [Bio] Vice President of Research and Development with Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN).
Over a decade ago, in response to fragmented and reactive programming, the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) called for a national Aboriginal youth policy that would involve Aboriginal groups as equal partners.
Including Aboriginal youth in the development of policy that directly concerns their welfare was seen as the first step to their empowerment.
Click here to read more>>
Monday, August 24, 2009
Road to a remedy
QUENTIN CASEY
TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
Bernard Richard is on a road trip across New Brunswick that he hopes will eventually help improve the plight of the province's First Nations children.
Richard, the province's child and youth advocate, has been crisscrossing the province to speak with aboriginal chiefs and to study the state of child welfare on the province's 15 First Nations.
Click here to read more>>
TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL
Bernard Richard is on a road trip across New Brunswick that he hopes will eventually help improve the plight of the province's First Nations children.
Richard, the province's child and youth advocate, has been crisscrossing the province to speak with aboriginal chiefs and to study the state of child welfare on the province's 15 First Nations.
Click here to read more>>
Real Canada has bypassed the Inuit
By Colin Alexander, FreelanceAugust 24, 2009
The recent front-page picture of young boys sleeping outside in Iqaluit, and the accompanying story about homelessness in Nunavut, showed how bad things are for a growing underclass.
With the Inuit population doubling every 25 years, the Harper government's Northern Strategy is neither new for northern people, nor strategic.
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The recent front-page picture of young boys sleeping outside in Iqaluit, and the accompanying story about homelessness in Nunavut, showed how bad things are for a growing underclass.
With the Inuit population doubling every 25 years, the Harper government's Northern Strategy is neither new for northern people, nor strategic.
Click here to read more>>
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