Award-winning Indigenous mental health programs struggle with finding funding – CBC

Oct 14, 2016

‘Nobody has stepped up to ensure our financial security,’ says Ilisaqsivik Society executive director

A lack of renewable and sustained funding for Inuit mental health programs means some award-winning Nunavut groups that tackle the issue of suicide are constantly “scrambling,” a House of Commons committee heard this month.

MPs with the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs are in the midst of a study of suicide among Indigenous peoples and communities — an issue the Liberals have named their top priority.

“We need to do something now,” said Don Rusnak, the Liberal MP for Thunder Bay-Rainy River.

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