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Rankin Inlet rallies to demand better mental-health resources

(Just Now) WEBRankin Inlet residents of all ages marched to end stigma about mental illness and rally for more resources to address high suicide rates on Sunday. “There’s just too many people dying by suicide in Nunavut,” said Meagan Akumalik Netser, one of the …

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'We need a permanent solution now': Rankin Inlet teens plan …

(6 days ago) WEBResidents of Rankin Inlet will hold a rally Saturday calling for better mental health services in the territory. The rally follows a march that took place in Iqaluit on Nov. 16, where high school students protested the lack of mental health supports in the territory and asked the federal government to build a mental health facility. Nearly every family …

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Nunavut MLAs adopt new Mental Health Act - Nunatsiaq News

(9 days ago) WEBCathy Towtongie, MLA for Rankin Inlet North–Chesterfield Inlet, said “those with mental illness are often confronted and treated like criminals,” when expressing her support for the bill. The new act commits the Government of Nunavut to creating an independent Mental Health Review Board, which will include lawyers, mental health …

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Rankin Inlet residents to rally for more mental health resources

(1 days ago) WEB“The mental health movement is a change that Nunavut needs to see,” she said in an interview. Many recreational offerings are run by volunteers in Rankin Inlet, which makes the hamlet more of a family than a community, Sammurtok said. And if more people knew about programs and volunteer opportunities, residents would feel less …

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She called the Nunavut RCMP on her mentally ill grandson - CBC.ca

(7 days ago) WEBThe number of mental health-related calls and checks being fielded by RCMP has been growing fairly steadily: in 2018, The most recent was Trey Angootealuk, 22, in Rankin Inlet.

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Rankin Inlet residents to rally for more mental health resources

(Just Now) WEBNunavummiut should have more mental health resources, including better access to therapists and more recreational programs, says an organizer of a rally planned in Rankin Inlet this weekend to

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Rankin Inlet women rally for crisis support - APTN News

(2 days ago) WEBPublic demonstrations are rare in Nunavut but it looks like more are planned to call for better mental health services. Tiana Gordon held the first one in Rankin Inlet Thursday. “We had people honking in support and people coming up and telling us to keep it up and happy we are standing a couple hours,” she said in a telephone interview.

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It’s OK not to be OK - Nunavut News

(Just Now) WEBRankin Inlet mental health nurse encourages reaching out. Stewart Burnett May 17, 2022 5:30 AM May 17, 2022 8:30 AM. Share by Email. Share on Facebook. Share on X. Share on LinkedIn. Print. Share via Text Message; Favour Chukwunonso, a community mental health nurse in Rankin Inlet, says not to walk …

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Protesters take to the streets in Rankin Inlet for improved mental

(2 days ago) WEBTiana Gordon, from left, joins fellow protesters Pamela Pilakapsi, Sakitnaak Brown, Amanda Tugak, Martha Palluq and Lucy Maynard displaying their signs of protest for the state of mental-health nservices available in Rankin Inlet as part of a territory-wide protest on Friday, June 26. Darrell Greer/NNSL photo

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'We need help now': Peaceful protesters draw attention to …

(4 days ago) WEBA similar demonstration was held in Rankin Inlet last week. In Arviat on Friday, participants sang Amazing Grace. A mental health and addictions treatment centre is scheduled to open in Iqaluit in

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mental-health-nunavut-rally-1.5629210

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Episode 10: Nunavut - Canada's Premiers

(9 days ago) WEBEpisode 10: Healing (NU) May 27, 2021 – Learn about healing programs being offered to the people of Nunavut. You will hear about the approaches Nunavut is taking to reduce the stigma often associated with seeking mental health and addictions supports, as well as innovative ways to support those in need, especially among the youth.

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Mental Health Resources Government of Nunavut

(1 days ago) WEBTootoo retired from the NHL last fall after a 13-year-career. He returned to Rankin Inlet to a hero’s welcome — no less than you’d expect for Wayne Gretzky in Brantford, Ontario, or Sidney

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Follow-up on Corrections in Nunavut—Department of Justice

(6 days ago) WEBHowever, there were no dedicated mental health positions at the Rankin Inlet Healing Facility or the Nunavut Women’s Correctional Centre. We were informed that the individual supporting the youth facility also started to provide support to the women’s facility in 2020. There were no addiction support services at any of the facilities except

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Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, residents petition to close beer and wine store

(Just Now) WEBMegan Pizzo-Lyall, who sits on the Rankin Inlet hamlet council, said closing the store might not be the answer and that more mental health and addictions treatment support is needed immediately. "In an ideal world, we would have been prepared for the things that it brought," she said of the beer and wine store."It's capping Rankin's resources.

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Rankin Inlet rallies to demand better mental-health resources

(8 days ago) WEBGlenn Woodford, the retail store manager at Rankin Inlet’s Co-op, said he got involved in the march to support his friends, staff and community members. Woodford said he has reached out for mental health help in the past, but after a few sessions the mental health nurse he was seeing stopped working in Rankin Inlet.

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'A battle no one knows about': Jordin Tootoo talks mental health …

(4 days ago) WEBTootoo, who grew up in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, retired from the NHL in 2018, and has spent his retirement speaking out about mental health awareness and suicide prevention.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/jordin-tootoo-mental-health-winnipeg-red-river-college-1.5453135

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Preparing for the human side of medicine - Shared Health

(3 days ago) WEBResident Doctors Appreciation Week with Dr. Rafiq Andani, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Shared Health My residency program took me across Northern Manitoba and Nunavut, with opportunities to live and work in Garden Hill, Thompson, Churchill, Rankin Inlet and Arviat and other remote locations in Canada’s North. Working and …

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Nunavut family revisits painful Iqaluit murder-suicide - Nunatsiaq …

(8 days ago) WEBRANKIN INLET—Nunavut needs more mental health resources and women’s shelters, said the family of an Iqaluit woman and her young daughters who were murdered in 2011. Sula Enuaraq was 29 when she and her daughters, Alexandra, 7, and Aliyah, 2, were shot and killed by her common-law partner, Sylvain Degrasse, who then …

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