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Appendix Bwere identified and recommendations generated. This report provides an examination of these issues frombasic suicide data to specific factors affecting First Nation and, based on this, presents recommendationsfor action. The recommendations fall into four main themes: 1) increasing knowledge about what worksin suicide prevention; 2) developing more effective and integrated health care services at national, regional,and local levels; 3) supporting community-driven approaches; and 4) creating strategies for building youthidentity, resilience, and culture. Available at: http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fnih-spni/pubs/suicide/prev_youthjeunes/index_e.htmlAssessment and Planning Tool Kit for Suicide Prevention in First Nations CommunitiesThe Assessment and Planning Tool Kit for Suicide Prevention in First Nations Communities was prepared in2005 for the First Nations Centre, National Aboriginal Health Organization. The tool kit was created asa framework for communities to use in determining and creating a suicide prevention plan. The kit, whichincludes research and information on suicide and suicide prevention recommendations, is a guide intendedfor adaptation to the needs of each community. The tool kit is comprised of three phases:• Phase I: Pre-Assessment: Research and Information on Suicide and Suicide Prevention: includesinformation on understanding suicidal behaviour among youth, including what might lead someoneto consider suicide and what the protective factors might be. This section of the tool kit also outlinesdifferent approaches to suicide prevention (prevention, intervention, and postvention) and discussesthe importance of involving all three in a prevention initiative. A variety of prevention, intervention,and postvention strategies are suggested. Phase I concludes by recommending how to develop andincorporate assessment, planning, and consultation into a suicide prevention strategy.• Phase II: Community Assessment: explains how to gather information regarding the communitypopulation and access to general programs and services. This section suggests compiling informationon community demographics, infrastructure, community health and social programs and services,community views and attitudes about suicide, community suicide itself, community responses tosuicide, community risk factors, other community factors, cultural continuity factors, and communitystrengths.• Phase III: Developing a Community Healing Plan: describes the process of planning community healingand suicide prevention through the use of local initiatives, community members, and communityappropriatestrategies. Recommended steps include: analyzing the community assessment done in PhaseII; identifying existing community programs that may act in the capacity of primary prevention resources;identifying existing programs that may act in the capacity of intervention programs or secondaryprevention; identifying existing programs that may act in the capacity of postvention programs; andidentifying specific community strengths. The tool kit then provides numerous questions to help createa framework that may be used to help the community with its suicide prevention planning process. Thetool kit concludes by emphasizing the importance of evaluation and by providing information that willguide the community in developing an appropriate evaluation for their suicide prevention program.The appendices include common warning signs of suicide and key resources for the community to drawupon.Available at: http://www.naho.ca/firstnations/english/documents/NAHO_Suicide_Eng.pdf126