Darien Thira, PhD serves as a community development/mental health consultant for many Aboriginal communities across Canada and offers training workshops and clinical consultation related to a variety of communications, trauma, and crisis-related fields. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Adler School of Professional Psychology. His doctoral dissertation related to Aboriginal suicide resilience and social activism and he was involved in further resilience research at the University of British Columbia. He has previously served as a clinician with suicidal youth at Child and Youth Mental Health and as the Director of Community Education and Professional Development at the Vancouver Crisis Centre. In relation to suicide prevention, “Through the Pain”, a culturally driven community-based program has been used in over 40 Aboriginal communities across the country and as a national program in Australia. His program called “Opening the Circle” is designed to assist communities to develop their own crisis response team. “Choices”, his youth suicide awareness education video & seminar was used by more than 250 suicide prevention programs world-wide and he has collaborated on the production of a new version called “Reaching Out”. Darien has presented workshops at many local, provincial, national conferences, and international conferences in: Canada, the United States, and Australia.