by Allison Piche | Mar 24, 2018 | APTN, Healing, Jorgina Sunn
STR8 UP attended the National Guns and Gangs Summit in Ottawa earlier this month. Watch to hear Jorgina Sunn share her story and experience at the Summit with...
by Allison Piche | Feb 1, 2018 | Blog, Healing, Jorgina Sunn, STR8 UP stories
Jorgina Sunn first entered a gang in search of people like her. “I found myself situated with a different crowd of people. People that were addicted, people that we hurting, most of us Indigenous,” she says. “We all bonded in this dysfunction and...
by Allison Piche | Sep 14, 2017 | Event, Healing, Incarceration, STR8 UP stories
“Devin Napope was away for much of his teenage daughter’s life — in and out of jail, battling addictions and out of town. “Gone without a sound,” he said. At 30, he’s a member of STR8UP, an organization that works with people trying to break away from gangs and...
by admin | Oct 29, 2015 | Blog, Healing, Incarceration, Saskatchewan, Statistics
"We could turn the Saskatoon Correctional Centre into a real correctional centre, into a healing place, a healing environment." Father André Poilièvre Photo: Brad Christianson, Ivan Campeau, Austin McEwan and Father André Poilièvre. (Adrian Cheung) A group of...
