Behavioral Health Best Practices
Promising Strategies; Aboriginal Youth: A Manual of Promising
Suicide Prevention Programs
A manual for people who want to develop
and implement suicide prevention programs in their community.
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3.7MB
The manual includes a review of literature, some preventive
factors, and program contact names and information. The manual should be considered
a starting point and is not exhaustive.
Acting on What We Know, Preventing Youth Suicide in First Nations
Report on the findings and
recommendations of the Assembly of First Nations’ Suicide
Prevention Advisory Group. PDF
1.2MB Recognizing that Aboriginal suicide rate is two to
three times higher than non-Aboriginal suicide rate.
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