Nunavut’s suicide strategy includes Facebook, giving communities more control
IQALUIT, Nunavut — Social media plays a central role in a five-year plan aimed at reducing the number of suicides in Nunavut.
“Just about everyone up here has a Facebook account,” said David Lawson, an RCMP officer who is president of the Embrace Life Council, which helped produce the plan along with the Nunavut government, RCMP and other organizations.
Lawson said the plan, outlined Monday at Facebook’s Boost Your Community summit in Iqaluit, replaces a temporary one put in place last year.
A summit was held in Iqaluit in May 2016 with representatives from across Nunavut to share ideas on what was working and what else was needed, Lawson said.