Indigenous Suicide Prevention and Crisis Support Services

In Year 4, members of Theme Group 5 continued to address Indigenous Suicide Prevention and Crisis Support Services through sustainable networking, inclusion of Indigenous approaches and methodologies, student supports, policy and transformation, and knowledge dissemination. The members of the Theme Group described existing networks with students, Elders, researchers, community partners, and multiple academic universities. The team reported the sustained implementation of Indigenous methodologies and approaches through Sharing Circles, witnessing, visitation, traditional teachings, community based and qualitative research, and storytelling research approaches, providing a wide range of student supports, such as, mentorship, funding, networking, and opportunities for planning, collecting data, publication, and presentations. Policy and transformation activities in Year 4 for Theme Group 5 included regular consultations with Federal, Provincial, Territorial Government and the United Nations, having had their research cited in a parliament working group on Indigenous Health transformation. Further, members of Theme Group 5 described knowledge exchange events on suicide prevention involving mental wellness practitioners, with over 30 mental wellness practitioners involved in sharing their community methods to address suicide prevention. 

For Year 4, members of the Theme Group described progressive and innovative knowledge dissemination activities, including Indigenization of psychology programs, a new partnership with Georgian College to increase Indigenous graduate student recruitment, an environmental scan of Indigenous approaches to suicide prevention, multiple podcasts on evidence-based practices related to suicide prevention, and multiple podcasts on use of Indigenous approaches to addressing trauma.

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications

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Non-Peer Reviewed Publications & Reports

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Invited Lectures & Presentations

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