Key Resources for Promoting Life / Preventing Suicide in Indigenous Communities

Talking Stick App

Talking Stick is a safe space where you can connect anonymously with Indigenous peers who understand you. Created by Indigenous People, for Indigenous People. Free to use, always anonymous.

(2024)

WANISKĀHK – Time to Rise Up

The Federation of Saskatchewan Indigenous Nations new website features resources and videos on life promotion and supporting First Nations youth.

(2020)

We Matter Campaign: A place Indigenous youth can turn to for an uplift, for positive support, or for a reminder that you matter.

(2017)

We Matter: Mini Toolkit

(2017)

Assembly of First Nations Youth Council Calls to Action on Life Promotion in First Nations Communities

(2016)

National Inuit Suicide Prevention Strategy

(2016)

We Belong: Life Promotion to Address Indigenous Suicide Discussion Paper

(2016)

First Nations Mental Wellness Continuum Framework

(2015)

Health Canada: Mental Wellness Teams – Key Learnings from 8 Projects

(2015)

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action

(2015)

Hope, Health, and Healing: A Planning Toolkit for First Nations and Aboriginal Communities to Prevent and Respond to Suicide

(2015)

National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy

(2013)

Acting on What We Know: Preventing Youth Suicide in First Nations

(2013)

Healing Traditions: The Mental Health of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada

(2009)

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

(2008)

OCAP: Ownership, Control, Access and Possession

(2007)

Suicide among Aboriginal People in Canada

(2007)

Aboriginal Youth: A Manual of Promising Youth Suicide Prevention Strategies

(2007)

Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention (CASP) Blueprint for a Canadian National Suicide Prevention Strategy

(2004)

Choosing Life: Special Report on Suicide Among Aboriginal Peoples (Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples

(1995)

Canadian Task Force Report on Suicide

(1987)