About Us

Finding Inspiration in every turn

We are a team of volunteers with various backgrounds and employments, who are all passionate about working together to try and decrease stigma around mental health and suicide, as well as decrease rates of death by suicide through raising awareness, education, and supporting mental health initiatives..

Guiding Principles

Community Suicide Prevention Committees endorse and affirm the following principles:

Suicide is recognized as a societal problem that has multiple causes.
There is a responsibility to provide ways of addressing psychological, interpersonal, psychosocial and/or physical suffering
Resources and services to help vulnerable persons are available and accessible.

Mandate

Community Suicide Prevention Committees have a mandate to support initiatives that are designed to prevent the occurrence of suicide by promoting mental wellbeing and encouraging help-seeking behaviour through awareness and educational activities.

Community Suicide Prevention Committees work to identify local needs and work toward reducing barriers and gaps between existing services.

Addictions and Mental Health Services division of the Regional Health Authority collaborates and participates to the Community Suicide Prevention Committees in their respective jurisdictions.