Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I have a Return to Oral Question asked by the Member for Yellowknife North on June 13th, 2024, regarding Wellness and Addictions Recommendations the Minister’s Forum on Addictions and Community Wellness: Healing Voices, which took place on April 30, 2013. Specifically, the Member asked if the department had addressed the recommendations made in the Healing Voices Report.
The Minister’s forum consisted of 12 members who traveled to 21 communities to listen to Northerners about what they felt were the best ways to stop the destructive impacts of alcohol, drugs, and other addictions, on NWT communities. The Healing Voices Report included valuable feedback from community members that was then organized into recommendations. Of the 67 recommendations made, the Government of the Northwest Territories accepted 59. As requested by the Member, I have also provided a copy of a list which provides an update on Recommendations 7, 11, 29, and 54 for which the Department of Health and Social Services has responsibility. Later today I will also table of copy of this update on recommendations 7, 11, 29, and 54. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
