This Aboriginal Man Is Hopeful About The Future In Australia's Worst Youth Suicide Region
Becoming an Indigenous ranger was a transformative experience for 22-year-old Jacob Smith.
"I found out a lot about myself during that process," he said."It was a great opportunity for me to kind of grow and get some time out there in the bush to myself and think. "It holds a lot of pain and a lot of grief. I guess when people are healing they're not too open to speak about things," he said."[Later] I started to talk about how it was affecting me and I started to make my parents aware, especially my mother, aware of how I was feeling and that's when she was able to assist me and to sit me down and have those tough conversations."
Of the $19.6 million pledged by the Coalition, $4.6 million will be spent on four community initiatives in the Kimberley, including a youth leadership program and the expansion of a diversion program for at-risk youth.
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