National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy (NAYSPS)

FSIN is in partnership with Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority (NITHA) and First Nation and Inuit Health (FNIH) on the National Aboriginal Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy. The goal of the NAYSPS is to develop a national approach to Aboriginal youth suicide prevention in Canada that will increase protective (preventative) factors such as resiliency and reduce the risk factors associated with suicide.

OBJECTIVES:
o       increase awareness and understanding of Aboriginal youth suicide prevention;
o       strengthen key protective factors such as a strong sense of identity, meaning and purpose, and resilience;
o       strengthen and facilitate collaborative approaches and linkages with in and across governments, agencies and organizations;
o       develop and implement locally-driven suicide prevention plans in First Nations and Inuit communities;
o       improve and increase crisis response efforts to intervene more effectively in preventing suicide and suicide clusters following a suicide-related crisis in First Nations communities;
o       enhance knowledge development regarding what is known about what works in preventing Aboriginal youth suicide; and
o       gather First Nation youth to discuss, educate, ad raise awareness of suicide prevention and healthy lifestyles.