The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared September 10th of each year World Suicide Prevention Day.

Adapted from: cam.org

This report is a PDF document available on the McGill University site. This report, compiled by the Community Psychiatry Institute, evaluates ongoing projects in the field of suicide prevention. It is a useful reference for everyone working in this area.

Adapted from: www.mcgill.ca (pdf)

Directed by Carlos Ferrand and produced by the NFB, this film is the story of the path to healing travelled by Annie Smith-St-Georges, an Algonquin mother to lived through the ordeal of her son's suicide. The film can be purchased online through the NFB website.

Adapted from: cmm.nfb.ca

This is a study by the Aboriginal Healing Foundation presenting a model aiming to describe intergenerational transmission of a historic trauma. It looks into the implications of healing in the contemporary Aboriginal context.

Adapted from: ahf.ca

Mélanie Petiquay

Mélanie Petiquay is an Atikamekw of Manawan. For ten years, she is working as a social worker in suicide prevention. She worked for the Mikon Program in Manawan and works also at the Native Friendship Centre in Joliette. Mikon includes several kinds of exciting activities and offer an emergency phone line service.

Some weeks are quieter than others, but periodically there would be a depression phase that would push people to think about suicide, mostly when young people are feeling depressed.

Alice Echaquan

Alice has a diploma in specialized education. She lived in Joliette, which is outside of her community, for 15 years. In addition of being the team manager of Manawan social services, she works with abused victims.

Alice believes that a good social worker must develop a compassion attitude in order to treat individuals suffering from deep wounds. In a small community, we are daily faced to the presence of abusers in an environment where everyone knows each other.