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Appendix BAboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy Suicide Prevention and Intervention Resource KitThe Suicide Prevention and Intervention Resource Kit was prepared by the Nishnawbe Aski Nation as theresult of a grant from the Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Strategy in Ontario. The program wasdeveloped by the Suicide Prevention Working Group, a task group established by the Aboriginal Healingand Wellness Strategy Joint Management Committee. The objective of this tool kit is to provide serviceworkers with a range of tools to help address suicide among Aboriginal youth. The kit provides backgroundinformation on strategies to prevent and intervene in suicide attempts. The main component of the tool kit isthe Wabanabe Puksayimoowin (Spirit of Hope) Aboriginal Youth’s Suicide Prevention and Intervention ResourceManual – 2004. This manual contains several resources, including: 1) information on injury profiles forAboriginal people in Canada; 2) a paper on cultural continuity as a hedge against suicide; 3) informationon traditional (Aboriginal) approaches to understanding suicide; 4) an example of a background documentsupporting a suicide prevention strategy; 5) an evaluation report; 6) a document on suicide preventionand mental health promotion in First Nations and Inuit communities; and 7) information on communityfactors and youth suicide. This manual within the tool kit also contains practical examples of preventionstrategies including: 1) the New Zealand Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy – In Our Hands / Kia Pika TeOra O Te Taitamariki; 2) Wabanabe Puksayimoowin (Spirit of Hope) Example Suicide Prevention Strategy;and 3) Kashechewan First Nation Suicide Prevention Strategy.Other resources included in the tool kit are: 1) Dilico Ojibway Child and Family Services Resource Manual asan example of an agency or treatment program suicide protocol; 2) The Resource Team Manual: A Guide forCommunity Based Resource Workers from the Shibogama Health Authority’s Payahtakenemowin Programas an example of a front-line suicide prevention/intervention protocol; 3) Cards and posters for helplines inNorthern Ontario; 4) The Nishnawbe Aski Nation Suicide Prevention Training Manual, and accompanyingvideo as an example of a community-based training manual; 5) discussion notes from a suicide preventionworkshop; the report Acting on What We Know: Preventing Youth Suicide in First Nations from the AdvisoryGroup on Suicide Prevention (2003) mandated by the Assembly of First Nations and Health Canada; and6) a Suicide Resource Listing Booklet.Crisis intervention workers in all 50 communities within Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) region havereceived training in suicide prevention and intervention and the training is ongoing. NAN SuicidePrevention Programs focus on the strength of family values and spirituality to help combat the high rate ofyouth suicide in the NAN territory.No longer available.127