Our first plan was to try to get our own people trained to deal with the suicide crisis and also try to go to these families and work with them on a day-to-day basis, but we don't have enough staff for that. We tried to group them together but always something came up, one disaster after another, so we couldn't get that going. We were going to have some workshops and a death would happen and that cut us off and then we couldn't gather as much.
This summer we had only one sun dance where there were a lot of people attending but it was pretty safe the way they set it up. We couldn't have too many of those.
Our idea is to try to settle the kids down for now and then work on the parents with our plans. We need to teach them to become parents and try to help out their youth as much as possible. Even where there are addictions, they have to reach out and we need people to go out there and talk to them. We don't have the training right now because everything keeps getting cut off. On our suicide training, I think we only had one and a half courses so far.
Anyway, our plan is to try to train our band members so we can look after ourselves after. We'll have people here 24 hours. That's our plan. Hopefully, it works.