Fifty-three percent of Halifax’s homeless population has been diagnosed with at least one form of clinical mental illness. Seventy-two percent have dealt with serious depression or anxiety, and 48 percent have seriously considered taking their own lives.Those are the findings catalogued in a report issued Tuesday by the Community Action on Homelessness. The findings are […]
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Province delays watershed suicide report
What’s the best way to reduce the number of suicides? Before answering that question, we first need to know who’s committing suicide, and how. That’s the philosophy behind the Profile of Suicide Injury Report, a celebrated and ground-breaking approach to suicide prevention in Nova Scotia. There’s only one problem: the government hasn’t released the report. […]