suicide

JAHS graduates and role models for Inuit youth, Shelby Angalik and Innosar Issakiark from Arviat TV share their reflections on the 2016 Arviat Hope Walk.

The youth-organized event was conceived during the Arviat Youth Leadership Camp held July 1-8, 2016 with support from the Hamlet of Arviat, TakingITGlobal and the Samuel Family Foundation. 

The Isaksimagit Innusirmi Katujjiqatigiit/Embrace Life Council is a non-profit charitable organization whose mission is to support and encourage Nunavummiut to value life. One of our objectives is to educate the public on the issues of suicide, mental health, community health, and related issues. As such, we would like to give you more information about bullying prevention.

Kivalliq Campus students and staff held a flash mob at the Rankin Inlet Airport with acclaimed singer and songwriter Susan Aglukark in support of World Suicide Prevention Day. Clip courtesy of Dorothy Tootoo at Kivalliq Campus!

Canadian singer-songwriter and internationally recognized humanitarian Bruce Cockburn, is lending his voice to suicide prevention by partnering with the Collateral Damage Project. The Order of Canada recipient is releasing a video calling for a dialogue on suicide. To view the video, go to www.leftbehindbysuicide.org

 This video was created by a group of male students at John Arnalukjuak High School as part of the Leadership and Resiliency Program. It encourages victims of bullying to speak up and speak out against bullies.

A documentary which explores the effects of suicides on the London Underground. A production made as a 2nd year project for Ba Hons Television Production at the University of Westminster.

Synopsis: A moving tribute to Richard Cardinal, a Métis adolescent who committed suicide in 1984. He had been taken from his home at the age of four because of family problems, and spent the rest of his seventeen short years moving in and out of twenty-eight foster homes, group homes and shelters in Alberta.… Leer más

407, Artcirq, Igloolik Isuma, NITV productions 2006, Producer Guillaume Saladin, Director Bruce Haulli. Inuktut w/English s-t.

Frank Austin Manyhorses is a healer that offers a ceremony to clear negative energy.

Filmmaker: Tamara Bull

Filmmaker Contact:

Cedar Root Productions www.cedarrootproductions.com

Producer's Name: Tamara Bull

Year of Production: 2008

This is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol, he is trying to put the reality and the past behind, but the past keeps hunting him. One day he looses control of himself and starts beating a man who's walking on a street beside his house. Because of his violent act his been sentenced to go to an outpost camp for two months, a camp where a hunter is waiting for him.

407, Artcirq, Igloolik Isuma, NITV productions 2006, Producer Guillaume Saladin, Director Bruce Haulli. Inuktut w/English s-t.