Youth Suicide Crisis

• Advocates call for national youth suicide strategy: ‘Our children will continue to die’

  Between 2013 and 2017, at least 1,174 youth between eight and 19 years old died by suicide.

  Canada

  Sep 17, 2019
  
• Ontario First Nation reeling following suicides of at least 4 young people

  One of the girls who died on the weekend was a sister of the girl who took her own life earlier this month in the small community of about 2,300 people in northern Ontario.

  Canada

  Jul 18, 2017
  
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• Northern Saskatchewan once again struggling with youth suicide

  In the past two days, the Ministry of Rural and Remote Health has been notified of one suicide in La Loche and two attempts.

  Canada

  Mar 9, 2017
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• Saskatoon conference deals with youth suicide crisis in northern Saskatchewan

  Following a rash of youth suicides in northern Saskatchewan, a group of women organized a prevention conference in Saskatoon and invited over 500 indigenous youth to attend.

  Canada

  Feb 2, 2017
• Sask. First Nation leaders react to proposed national youth suicide prevention plan

  First Nation leaders calling on federal government to support national youth suicide prevention plan after multiple young women have taken their lives across Canada.

  Canada

  Jan 20, 2017
• First Nations leaders slam Trudeau government for ‘dragging their feet’ on youth suicide crisis

  Indigenous leaders are set to press the federal government on Thursday over services available in Wapekeka First Nation - a tiny community in northern Ontario mourning the suicides of two 12-year-old girls.

  Politics

  Jan 19, 2017