Choosing life : special report on suicide among Aboriginal people.: Z1-1991/1-41-4E-PDF
“This report sets out what Commissioners have learned about suicide among Aboriginal people and how we think its incidence and effects can be reduced. In the report we discuss: how suicide among Aboriginal people is similar to suicide among all people, and how it is different; who is most at risk and why; what is already being done to help, and what more could be done; key elements in the strategies that work; and recommendations for immediate and long-term reduction of the problem. The report depends as much on the views and life stories of Aboriginal people as on the insights of research to arrive at an understanding of the problem of suicide and its solutions. Inevitably, some of the stories are grim. But most are full of hope, pointing the way forward. Our purposes in publishing this report are, first, to increase the understanding of Canadians in general; second, to share the ideas for change we have heard from Aboriginal communities; and third, to make recommendations to all responsible authorities for action to alleviate an intolerable situation”--Contents, p. 4.
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| Department/Agency | Canada. Privy Council Office. Canada. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. |
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| Title | Choosing life : special report on suicide among Aboriginal people. |
| Variant title | Special report on suicide among Aboriginal people |
| Publication type | Monograph |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Other formats | Paper-[English] |
| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Choisir la vie : un rapport spécial sur le suicide chez les autochtones. Historical publication digitized by the Privy Council Office of Canada. Co-Chairs: René Dussault and Georges Erasmus. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Suicide among aboriginal peoples: the crisis and the hope -- 2. How serious is the problem of suicide among aboriginal people? -- 3. Why are there so many suicides among aboriginal people? -- 4. Saving their own lives: aboriginal communities take charge -- 5. Barriers and solutions -- 6. A proposal for fundamental change -- app. 1. Crisis services: direct suicide prevention -- app. 2. Community development -- app. 3. Recommendations from the Commission's special consultations on suicide prevention -- app. 4. Recommendations from the Community Sharing Circles, Big Cove, New Brunswick, 14 March 1993. Issued also in print format. |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, c1995. |
| Author / Contributor | Dussault, René,1939- Erasmus, Georges. |
| Description | x, 135 p. : ill. |
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| Subject terms | Commissions of inquiry Aboriginal peoples Suicide |
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