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Crisis lines offering support to residential school survivors see spike in calls

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Two crisis lines for residential school survivors and their descendants have been inundated with calls after the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said last week it found indications of children’s remains near a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C.

Angela White, executive director of the Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS), based in North Vancouver, said the group has been providing support throughout the COVID-19 pandemic through video counselling, phone lines, and email, but they’ve seen

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This story was originally published on CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/crisis-lines-spike-residential-school-1.6051185?cmp=rss.

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