September 10th was World Suicide Prevention Day.
The Mental Health and Addictions Workers along the coast have hosted these events:
In each community they walked from the DHSD buildings to the docks, they handed out T-shirts, lit candles during the walk, set off Chinese Lanterns.
To end of the event each community held a ticket draw for a Fire Pit.
Frances Boas is with the Hopedale DHSD.
Boas had help from Teri Winters along with sixty people; they went from the Mental Wellness and Healing Building down to the American Dock.
Julianna Winters is the winner for the fire pit.
In the Rigolet DHSD, we spoke with Stephanie Morris who is the Child Service Worker.
Morris had some help from Lisa Palliser Bennett, the Community Health Worker. Jarvis House was the winner of the fire pit.
Elsie Russell is the Mental Health and Addictions Counsellor in the DHSD here in Nain.
There was a just about 70 people who attended; Sue Webb said a speech in Inuktitut about World Suicide Prevention Day.
Daniel Suarak is the prize winner of the fire pit.
In Postville, they handed out t-shirts and lit candles at 8pm, unfortunately, the walk and Chinese lanterns have been postponed to sometime this week.