About the presentations The tribal human services department has provided educational presentations and events across the six-county region to make mental health struggles easier to talk about. Topics include domestic violence, drug addiction and suicide. The purpose of the presentations isn’t to tell communities how to address the problem but to “make it something we can talk about,” Scholten said. And it’s important to talk about difficult things like suicide. Indigenous communities have the highest suicide rates of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. In 2022, suicide was the second leading cause of death for non-Hispanic American Indians/Alaska Natives ages 10–34. According to the Center for Disease Control, in 2023, 23.8 Native Americans per 100,000 died by suicide, 35 per

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