Mental health support tailored to Indigenous culture remains out of reach

Guest: Robert Cribb, investigative reporter for the Star A joint investigation by the Toronto Star and the Investigative Journalism Bureau has done an analysis of key mental health indicators for First Nations youth, including antidepressant prescriptions, suicide attempts, self-reported disorders and access to support, revealing a strained system of care failing to meet the needs of desperate young people. As Indigenous youth in Canada suffer from some of the highest rates of suicide in the world, culturally relevant counselling and community healing practises are few and hard to access. Star reporter Robert Cribb headed the Toronto Star series Generation Distress and joins "This Matters" to explain how mental health support tailored to Indigenous culture remains out of reach for youth in crisis and how the system is failing them.