Wave of Indigenous Suicides Leaves Canadian Town Appealing for Help [NYTimes.com]

I tried to re-read a copy of the Canadian Solicitor General's Report on the Aboriginal Schools, earlier this week, which I'd previously perused, at our (U.S.) National Center for PTSD Library. I [nor the NCPTSD staff assisting me] wasn't  able to locate it at this recent time. However, I did find a journal article about "The Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale (RACES): item response theory findings" by Kaine Grigg and Lenore Manderson in the International Journal for Equity in Health (2016) 15:49. Perhaps there are some appropriate tools which are relevant to this Public Health Emergency currently plaguing Canada and other Aboriginal communities elsewhere in the world.

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) used their modified ACE screening tool, in their 2013 assessment of the world's healthiest children, and they included questions relating to Poverty (which is now considered to be another form of "Toxic Stress"), might it be appropriate to re-screen these communities for ACEs and Resilience? Canada's rating in the 2013 WHO assessment was 26th, but I don't know if an "aboriginal language" was used in this and other Canadian Aboriginal communities, in the 2013 WHO international assessment. Might the "Statistics Canada" agency be able to also assist in this public health crisis, as well?

The Unemployment Rate noted in this NYTimes article, prompted me to reflect on an initiative started at the U.S. Navajo Nation, shortly after passage of the (U.S.) Community Development Credit Union Act in the latter 1970's, as well as a similar initiative in the Anacostia area of Washington, D.C.-which markedly improved the employment opportunities and local economy, and diminished the impact of "Predatory Lenders" there.