Prince Albert Grand Council is proud to host "The Power of Youth: Suicide Prevention Training Event

The Power of Youth” will be a dynamic training opportunity for youth,frontline
workers, Elders, mentors and parents,which will include topics addressing
suicide prevention through new knowledge, honing leadership skills and learning to express ourselves through music and drama. Read More>>

New Partnership Promotes Life Skills for Aboriginal Youth

A new partnership between the Government of Ontario and Right To Play will promote a healthy and active lifestyle for Aboriginal youth through sport and recreation.
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Right to Play takes hockey north

A sports organization known for its mission to build self-esteem in children from impoverished and war-torn nations is coming to a northern Ontario aboriginal community struggling with a teen suicide crisis.
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Help on way for natives coping with teen suicide

The Ontario government is freeing up $470,000 in emergency funds to bring four trained suicide prevention workers to the remote James Bay area as aboriginal communities there struggle to cope under a wave of teen suicides.
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First Nations youth suicide study supported by RBC Foundation

Youth suicide and suicide attempts have become a major problem among First Nations communities living on reserves. In order to counteract this troubling trend, the Swampy Cree Suicide Prevention Team at the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Health Sciences has worked with the Swampy Cree Tribal Council to improve the understanding of the risk factors for suicide among Aboriginal populations and to determine individual, community and school –based interventions to reduce suicidal behavior. Now the Swampy Cree Suicide Prevention Team is ready to push their efforts further with a research study that aims to identify youth at risk for suicide.

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Suicides turn focus on stricken north

Ontario will place special focus on the plight of First Nations children's aid societies when the province reviews the laws that govern child welfare, youth justice and adoption practices next year, the Star has learned.

Northern children's aid societies are in the midst of fighting a suicide epidemic while also going broke. In the last year, 13 teens living in the remote communities along the James and Hudson Bay coasts, and, throughout the isolated north have committed suicide – all by hanging. The youngest to die was 14.

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Connecting with Canada's Native youth

It's minus 40 degrees, with a frigid wind blowing across a northern reserve.

Aboriginal Affairs Minister Brad Duguid is visiting, trying to get a handle on the massive social and economic woes that plague young people in our remote first nations communities.

Despite the bitter cold -- and on the only few square feet of usable ice -- a young kid is practicing shots on goal.

Duguid, who coaches kids' hockey, couldn't resist. He told the chief to stop the car, and he walked over to the boy.

"I just told him, grip his bottom hand a little tighter and take a shot now.

"He did and his shot was much better.

"He looked at me, big smile on his face, said thank you and off we went," Duguid recalls.

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