Canada: National Inuit Leader Calls For Immediate Response To Arctic Mental Health Crisis

Canada: National Inuit Leader Calls For Immediate Response To Arctic Mental Health Crisis   National Inuit Leader Mary Simon, President of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami called for urgent investment in community-based mental health programs in all Inuit communities in response to a series of senseless and violent deaths that show the troubling state of mental health in Canada’s Arctic.   The bodies of four family members – including two young children – were discovered this week in Iqaluit. The RCMP...

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