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Journey to Wellness // Monday 8:00amA 10-minute bi-weekly program on Native American Community Health in MN and around the country in partnership with the University of Minnesota Medical School- Duluth Campus, Center of American Indian and Minority Health. The program will feature interviews with medical and health researchers, professors, and doctors plus native people active in Native American health today. Journey to Wellness on The North 103.3 is made possible by Ampers and the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Journey to Wellness in Indian Country: "Culture is prevention"

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published October 7, 2019 at 1:48 PM CDT

Native kids aged 10 to 24 have the highest rate of suicide of any age group in Minnesota -- more than three times that of white kids. 

But there's a program in the Cities that's giving Native kids all kinds of tools - including traditional ones - to help keep them alive and safe and thriving.

Credit Indigenous Peoples Task Force/ojibwe.net
Elders Howard Kimewon and Alphonse Pitawanakwat provided these insights on preventing suicide

Resources:

How Do We Talk About Suicide on ojibwe.net

Keep the Fire Alive at the Indigenous Peoples Task Force

Keep the Fire Alive on Facebook

Red Lake Nation Counseling and Support Services

Children's Healing Center

Dakota Wicohan

Information about suicide prevention programs for all communities and people of all ages is available here and here.

If you are having trouble coping or thinking about suicide please call the Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-8255. Or text ‘MN’ to 741741
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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