Current Problems: Suicide Prevention

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Saskatchewan"

Updates on this page: 3 (Filtered by Theme "Suicide States of Emergency")
 

November 1, 2022


Results of First Nation suicide study show need for improvement, offer hope for change

NationTalk – CKOM News: Chief Margaret Bear of the Ochapowace First Nation remembers sitting in the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations’ previous building three years ago, filled with emotion and sharing much of the plight her community is facing today. “I expressed some tears,” Bear said of that day. The heavy emotions came then as...

December 5, 2019


Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation

980 CJME (Canadian Press): Ronald Mitsuing, chief of Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation in northern Saskatchewan says he is disappointed at the lack of long-term help from the provincial and federal governments to deal with what he says is a suicide crisis. The leaders are concerned about what they are calling “cluster suicides” in their community...

December 5, 2019


Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations

Radio-Canada: Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller told Chief Ronald Mitsuing, that Ottawa would financially support the suicide-prevention strategy released last year by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations in Saskatchewan…billed as the first “decolonized First Nations-led approach” to suicide prevention and intervention in Canada....

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