Echoes and reflections

The discussion also highlights mental health programs and services designed to address the special needs of youth and in particularly recognize the unique historical context of Aboriginal people and the services rendered to them. [...] The framework of the Inungni Sapujjijiit Task Force (2003) document Our Words Must Come Back to Us provided a comprehensive structure that allowed the various themes of the literature to be organized to complement their recommendations in the document. [...] The title of this report, Echoes and Reflections, embraces the echo of Our Words Must Come Back to Us, as noted in the literature and the authors’ reflections about it. [...] The researchers concluded that communication is the foundation for building strategies that shifts the responsibility for mental health from the individual to the community. [...] However, the dramatic increase in suicide among Aboriginal young people has motivated some Elders to put aside those fears in 1 Caution must be exercised here because the separation of behaviors from the individual could lead to the diminishing of the seriousness of the mental illness.