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 | Jan 30, 2016 | Blog, Jorgina Sunn, Star Phoenix, STR8 UP stories
“Str8-Up has been helping young men and women escape the gang life for decades. Started in Saskatchewan’s prison system in the mid-1990s, the program aims to show young people a way out of gangs. The stories of how members escaped can be terrifying. So, too, are...
by admin | Dec 15, 2015 | Andre Poilievre, APTN, Blog, Jorgina Sunn, Stacey Swampy, STR8 UP stories
STR8 UP : 10,000 Little Steps to Healing, Inc. – Aboriginal Peoples Television Network Interview STR8 UP has just released their newest book “STR8 UP: Stories of Courage — A Healing Workbook by recovering gang members and addicts”. The stories from...
by admin | Nov 18, 2015 | Aboriginal Order of Canada, Blog, Jorgina Sunn
STR8 UP member and recent winner of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples Aboriginal Order of Canada, Jorgina Sunn talks to reporter Leena Latafat (Global News) about transforming her life with help from the community and STR8 UP. “If you are struggling and you don’t...
by admin | Oct 21, 2015 | Aboriginal Order of Canada, Jorgina Sunn, STR8 UP stories
Jorgina Sunn Bridges (October 21, 2015) Jorgina Sunn is not proud of a lot of the things she did in her younger years, but she doesn’t pretend they never happened. “By the time I was 21, I was a walking time bomb. I did all the things to maintain my...
