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In Attawapiskat, failed mental-health project a tale of waste

April 16th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized

attawapiskat15nw1The People’s Strength project was funded through Health Canada’s now-defunct Health Services Integration Fund, which was aimed at improving health-care delivery to First Nation and Inuit peoples

Three years before Attawapiskat First Nation was hit with its latest suicide crisis, the regional health authority that serves the community launched a federally funded suicide-prevention project – an $800,000 mental-health initiative that fell far short of the ambitious vision declared at the outset.  Read the rest of this story at The Globe and Mail…

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