The Indian Health Service is announcing the availability of $850,000 in funding for the Zero Suicide Initiative Coordinating Center Cooperative Agreement . This funding supports tribes, tribal organizations, and urban Indian organizations to provide technical assistance to all current Zero Suicide Initiative projects and build capacity to improve the system of care for those at risk for suicide by implementing a comprehensive, culturally informed, multi-setting approach to suicide prevention in Indian health systems. The ZSI Coordinating Center will provide technical assistance in the areas of data collection, reporting, training, resources, and implementation of the Zero Suicide approach in Indian Country.
Bristol Bay Tribes, communities, Alaska Native Corporations, and organizations are celebrating the news that the United States Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a 404(c) Clean Water Act protections that will stop the proposed Pebble Mine from being built at the headwaters of Bristol Bay. Native American Rights Fund client United Tribes of Bristol Bay has long sought to safeguard the lands and waters that have sustained Bristol Bay since time immemorial. “Today, these Clean Water Act protections provide certainty that Pebble cannot be built in Bristol Bay,” said UTBB Executive Director Alannah Hurley. Those are your headlines at this hour.
I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.
