HOPE FOR WELLNESS CRISIS HELP LINE ABORIGINAL ALERT If you're experiencing emotional distress and want to WHAT IS ABORIGINAL ALERT? talk, call the First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Aboriginal Alert is an Aboriginal-led, grassroots Help Line at 1-855-242-3310 or the online chat at initiative established to alert and raise awareness hopeforwellness.ca. It's toll-free and open 24 hours a about missing Aboriginal people. day, 7 days a week. They add profiles, and information about missing If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, and located Aboriginal people to the Aboriginal call 9-1-1 or the number for emergency services in Alert website daily, as well as to social media your community. platforms, like Facebook and X (formerly Twitter). Their system also allows them to send email notifications to registered users who are within a 100 km radius of the area of the missing person. NATIONAL INDIAN The goal is to help find individuals who are missing and to provide support to their families by posting missing people alerts. The faster the RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL public can alerted about a missing Aboriginal person, the better their chances of being found. CRISIS LINE The Aboriginal Alert website is managed and Counselling, as well as cultural and emotional support, updated daily by a small team of committed is also available through the Indian Residential Schools individuals. Resolution Health Support Program for eligible former students and their families. How does Aboriginal Alert help families with missing loved ones? In addition to sharing Canada-wide information The National Indian Residential School Crisis Line on missing Aboriginal people, the website also provides 24-hour crisis support to former Indian offers resources for people to create posters of Residential School students and their families their missing loved one, onsite reporting of a toll-free at 1-866-925-4419. missing loved one and resources to help people stay safe. Individuals impacted by the issue of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ Aboriginal Alert has a network of more than six people are encouraged to contact the MMIWG Crisis hundred Community Champions who receive missing Aboriginal people alerts and are within a Line toll-free at 1-844-413-6649. 100 km radius of the area of the missing person. Please contact the Indigenous Services Canada regional office in your province or territory (or, for those in British Columbia, the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA)) to access services through the SCAN THE QR CODE Resolution Health Support Program. To learn more or sign up now. 32 2 0 E U S S I | 4 2 0 For First Nations and Inuit For First Nations Health 2 R health regional office Authority (FNHA) E B information scan the QR information scan the QR M E code. code. T P E S