by Sam Campling | Jun 4, 2021 | Current NewsThe missing boater has been found safe, according to search officials. Search efforts are ongoing for a 19-year-old boater who went missing on Sikachu Lake Thursday morning. Lac La Ronge Indian Band chief Tammy Cook-Searson is part of the boaters going out to. by Sam Campling | Jun 2, 2021 | Current NewsTwo-hundred and fifteen birch bark rafts will be released on to Lac La Ronge on Friday during a ceremony. The rafts are being made this week on the site of the Lac La Ronge Residential School. Tom Roberts, a residential school support worker and counsellor who also.
Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre starts mental health support initiative
The Saskatoon Indian and Métis Friendship Centre has started offering programs for mental health support as part of a new initiative.
Charleen Cote and Shauna Watcheston, two mental health therapists at the centre, came up with the idea for the initiative after noticing many people who come to the friendship centre are in need of more support.
“It just started out as a conversation,” Cote said. “We started seeing our people coming through the doors and they were so entrenched in addiction and mental health issues (so) we started asking ‘what can we do to provide better services for our people?’