In our work in Nunavut, we recognize that the people who deal with the phone calls at two o'clock in the morning, be it a mental health crisis or a suicide or mentions of suicide, are often members of the faith community. They are just solid people, and they exist in every community.
One of our goals was to ask those people what training they would like. There are issues around how seriously the fly-in health workers treat those people. I mean, they don't claim to be social workers or nurses, but they are really solid community residents. Certainly in Nunavut I value those people tremendously. When we do our work, they're quite often the first people we talk to in the communities. The working group has always had a representative rotating among the different faiths.
There's no question that a strong spiritual grounding in any society is a protective factor, but not everybody has that.