Yes, thank you. When there's a suicide in a community, obviously it affects the whole community, and I personally reach out to community leadership and ask how they want to be supported. And in the case of Tuktoyaktuk last fall, they told me that they wanted to bring in Jordan Tootoo as a speaker and to launch the House of Hope in Kitty Hall to provide things for the youth to do. It is youth mostly involved. And also to provide them with inspiration to fend off the darkness and depression. So this fund is about money that communities can apply for. The interventions that happen after a suicide, or potentially even an attempted suicide, those are in the operational budget of the NTHSSA. There is a team. They can be called into operation on short notice to go in and support a community, provide extra counsellors, spell off people who are exhausted, and so on. So we kind of have a number of different approaches to this. Some of it comes directly from our staff and some of it goes to the communities to develop their own responses.
Julie Green on Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on March 6th, 2023. See this statement in context.
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
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