The province is putting together a new strategy to help create a suicide-safer PEI..
It also wants to reduce the painful, long-term effects of suicide on families and the whole community.
The Department of Health and Wellness — in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association — has created The Building Blocks of Hope - A Suicide Prevention Strategy for Island. families and the community.
The Department of Health and Wellness — in partnership with the Canadian Mental Health Association — has created The Building Blocks of Hope - A Suicide Prevention Strategy for Island. families and the community.
Health Minister Robert Mitchell says we all have a stake in this and must find ways to combat it.
Part of the strategy that includes 65 items will include modernizing policies that involve harassment and bullying in the schools
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Also erecting bridge barriers on the HIllsborough Bridge.
Increased promotion of the Island Helpline.
Support for school based education on suicide and the establishment of mobile crisis response units and peer support.