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Suicide prevention resource targets Aboriginal youth

Jasine Dennis is a front line worker with the Eskasoni Community Health Centre in Nova Scotia. In the two years she has served as a registered nurse in that community, located 75 km west of Sydney, she has faced the issue of youth suicide.

And that's not unusual. The overall First Nations youth suicide rate is five to seven times higher than the national rate for Canadian youth and the suicide rate among Inuit youth is up to 11 times higher than the national average, and the highest in Canada.

The newest tool in a combined federal government-National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) five-year strategy to prevent youth suicide has Dennis thrilled.

"I think it's awesome," she says about ...

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