Survivors need mental health support as searches of former residential school sites continue, leaders say
Feb 07, 2023 10:08AM ● By Content Editor
Photo: James Cutfeet, director of operations with Bringing Our Children Home, said residential school survivors need mental health supports, as new discoveries of possible burials can bring past trauma to the forefront. (Martine Laberge/Radio-Canada)
By Kris Ketonen - CBC News - January 27, 2023
By Kris Ketonen - CBC News - January 27, 2023
The director of operations for an organization in northwestern Ontario dedicated to finding children who went missing while attending residential schools is calling for more mental health supports for residential school survivors.
James Cutfeet of Bringing Our Children Home said events like the recent discovery of 170 "plausible burials" by the Wauzhushk Onigum Nation at the former St. Mary's residential school in Kenora can traumatize survivors.
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