Darkness Calls in Gitsxan (fwd)

[phil cash cash]

fyi,

This group recently released a popular suicide prevention comic, Darkness Calls,
in Gitxsan (a First Nations language from the Hazelton, BC area).  This comic
was also put to video with spoken Gitsxan language samples, part of which you
can find on YouTube.

Phil
ILAT UofA

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[fwd: info from email]

The Healthy Aboriginal Network
Non-profit promotion of Aboriginal Health, Literacy & Wellness
www.thehealthyaboriginal.net

Diabetes prevention comic book

We’ve recently released An Invited Threat, our diabetes prevention comic book. 
It’s about a young boy and what he likes to eat more than anything – junk food.
 His family exercises and they eat together at the table, but they don’t always
have time to prepare a healthy meal, so they rely on prepared foods.  And it’s
about someone who has the ability to change the dietary habits of his people –
the local store manager.  The story was focus group tested with youth and
health professionals for its ability to convey the idea of what is, and what is
not, healthy food.

Suicide prevention comic book

We recently released a comic book on suicide prevention for youth, visual
learners and hard to reach populations.  It’s called Darkness Calls and has
sold 50,000 copies across Canada to date.

It’s the story of a teenager who is bullied at school, is misunderstood by his
teacher and feels socially isolated from his family.  Even though our hero,
Kyle, has tremendous artistic talent and the support of a good friend he finds
one day just too overwhelming and considers taking his own life.  It’s a story
of one youth’s struggle to find his way, with the help of and in spite of the
intervention of two spirits.

The story was written and illustrated by Steve Sanderson, a professional
Aboriginal youth cartoonist.  The story was focus group tested with health
professionals and Aboriginal youth for authentic characters, storyline and
language.

We have four more comics in production to create literacy on staying in school,
the residential school, pride in community and living with FASD.

Our website isn’t fully functional yet but pricing can be found at
www.thehealthyaboriginal.net   Please feel free to pass this email on to anyone
else you know that may be interested.

We appreciate your time.

Sean Muir
Executive Director

328 East Thirty Second Avenue Vancouver, BC V5V 2Y4
P 604-876-0243   F 604-876-0248   sean at thehealthyaboriginal.net
BC incorporated non-profit Society No. S-48530