In Canadian News
Ontario youth with mental illness waiting months for help, auditor general finds, Global TV (Dec.1, 2016)
New Brunswick: ‘The orphan’s orphan’: Lack of mental health help for youth concerns advocate, CBC (Dec. 13, 2016)
Awareness initiatives
Maybe it’s not just a bad trip: Bold new Nova Scotia-based cannabis education campaign created with youth, for youth, busts through myths and misconceptions of marijuana use, press release (Nov. 7, 2016)
Player’s suicide inspires Guelph Storm defenceman to take on stereotypes, Guelph Today (Sept. 9, 2016)
Internationally
The lost ones: Inside Brazil’s Indigenous suicide crisis, The Globe and Mail (March 4, 2017)
Brazil’s Indigenous people are taking their own lives at a rate 22 times that of their fellow citizens – and it is almost entirely adolescents who are killing themselves. As Canada grapples with its own Indigenous suicide crisis, Stephanie Nolen and photographer Aaron Vincent Elkaim take an in-depth look at what is happening to the youth of the Guarani-Kaiowa
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