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A new report says children who are placed in the Ministry of Social Service’s Person of Sufficient Interest (PSI) program are not receiving the financial supp
First Nations and Metis children and youth continue to be overrepresented in deaths and critical injuries
A new report indicates that youth suicide in the province for 2020 was down.
However, injuries from self-harm or suicide attempts remained relatively the same.
The Saskatchewan Child and Youth Advocate’s Annual Report states there were two suicides reported to her office last year with eight attempted suicides and three self-harm incidents.
Yet all too common, First Nations and Métis youth are overrepresented.
“In fact, that ratio has increased with Indigenous children and youth accounting for 94 percent. 16 of those who were injured and 92 percent of those who died,” said the report.