July 02, 2024
Young perspective for Indigenous suicide hui
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Two leaders in youth suicide prevention hope to pick up new insights from the third World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference later this month in Niagara Falls, New York.
The hui hosted by the Onondawaga peoples of the Seneca Nation is billed as a chance for sister nations from across the world to share cultural-based approaches.
Quack Pirihi from takatāpui consultancy Mana Āniwaniwa and community nurse Berea Morrison and say they’re keen to listen and learn.
Quack Pirihi says they have prepared well.
“It’s actually sitting in wananga trying to understand why we’re going over there, spending all this money travelling in such a politically intense time in the world when so many of our Indigneous whanau are having it so, so hard, how are we going to make the most of this trip and do we actually need to be in that space and it’s having conversations like that with a bunch of my tuakana and a bunch of the leaders within our community that I found a lot more stressful and a lot more fruitful than trying to find the money to go,” they say.
Quack Pirihi says what started as a small hui run by Ngati Pikiao in Rotorua in 2018 has turned into a huge global kaupapa.