Journey To Hope, Moose Jaw is committed to bringing hope to the community and raise awareness about suicide and prevention.

This year, a group of students from Central Collegiate decided they wanted to bring hope and 'make spirits bright' by organizing a letter-writing campaign. This is a way to reach out to kids in a First Nation's school in Northern Saskatchewan where suicide rates are high.

Tammy Saylor, Central Collegiate’s school counsellor brought these kids together to make special and unique Christmas cards filled with handwritten, encouraging words.

Some of the positive messages inside these hand-crafted cards were, "have a wonderful Christmas, things will get better, you need to hang in there", "there are people who care and there are always brighter days".

Tammy Saylor has been taking on a lot of projects focused on positivity and with that, has been teaching her students the importance of giving back.

They participated in "Operation Christmas Child" this year, something she's been doing it every year. The highest amount of boxes they ever sent out was 37. This year they worked hard to make sure they sent out 102.

Saylor explains her high school kids are buying into giving back, she also ran the "Toasty Toes" project where they collected winter clothes and winter boots and sent them to elementary schools and to those who need extra support.

Journey To Hope is another group to help spread awareness about suicide that teens can do and she's sent the kids that were all involved in this to training called "face-talk" where it's all about giving back.

"It sure makes me feel good, and it makes them feel good. We are a perfect group to do this because the thing they were dealing with is suicide and that's what my kids are working on in Journey To Hope, so they were the perfect group to send them to this school and help give hope," says Saylor.

Saylor explains "We had a meeting at lunch where we started making Christmas cards, we then had almost 70 that we sent off. There were hand made ones, bought ones where the kids wrote super beautiful, meaningful messages to give them hope."