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The Mental Health First Aid Training and Research Program conducts research and training courses that aspire to increase Australians’ understanding of mental health.
The Mindframe National Media Initiative seeks to influence the media industry and the mental health sector to report mental illness and suicide issues responsibly, accurately and sensitively.
Reach Out Pro is a web-based service that supports health care professionals to use new technologies in their work with young people. The Reach Out Pro website provides information about what young people are doing online and the significance of technology in their lives.
OzHelp Tasmania is a workplace-based early intervention and social capacity building program for the Tasmanian building and construction industry. The project delivers training, support and awareness raising activities to building and construction workers.
The Post Discharge Care for High Risk Psychiatric Patients project involved an Intensive Case Management (ICM) intervention study and was developed to fill an existing gap in follow-up care for discharged psychiatric patients.
Community Connections supports older men in Queensland rural areas who are at high risk of suicide. The program is coordinated through inter-agency referrals.
The purpose of the Making My Living initiative is to provide awareness education and engagement strategies to government and non-government youth service providers and community members who have contact with young refugee people.
CALD Community Connections is a community suicide prevention project that works to increase wellbeing, reduce suicide risk and enhance capacity for individuals to respond to suicidal crises within CALD communities in Tasmania.
The SANE Mental Illness Bereavement Project aims to improve services and support for family and friends of people with mental illness who have died by suicide or are missing.
The Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project uses community radio networks around Australia to build a greater understanding of issues surrounding mental health and suicide prevention.
headspace provides health and mental health support, information and services to young people and their families across Australia. Issues headspace regularly deal with include self harm, depression, anxiety and alcohol and other drug use.
Multicultural Mental Health Australia provides national leadership in building greater awareness of mental health and suicide prevention amongst Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
CAN - Community Connections emphasises the value of consumer led service delivery no matter what the consumer's mental health problem(s) may be.
The StandBy Response Service is a community based program that provides a 24 hour coordinated crisis response to assist families, friends and associates who have been bereaved through suicide.
The LifeForce suicide prevention project is a national suicide prevention program that aims to educate, empower and resource Australian communities.
Suicide, QUestions, Answers and REsources (square) is a suicide prevention resource for people who work in primary health care. The resource promotes assessment and management of suicide risk in patients in the primary health care setting through training programs and follow-up sessions.
Serving Indigenous youth aged 8 to 23, the overall aim of the Community Activity Programs through Education-Indigenous Police Citizen Youth Club (Cape PCYC) is to reduce youth boredom through sport and recreation.
The OzHelp expansion to Goulburn, Queanbeyan and NSW is project widening the geographic area covered by the OzHelp work-based program of support, advice and counselling for apprentices within the construction industry.
Lifeline Australia’s Suicide Bereavement Support Group Standards & Practice Project is a workforce development project which aims to improve suicide bereavement support by developing a) standards and guidelines to inform best practice and b) training for group facilitators.
Reducing Suicide and Its Impact In Culturally Diverse Communities in Tasmania aims to increase capacity for suicide prevention in refugee and culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Tasmania.
The Farm Link suicide prevention project seeks to improve the mental health and well-being of people who live and work on NSW farms. The project uses an innovative model that was founded on research and is consistent with policy.
The Yiriman Project is a suicide prevention initiative that works with Aboriginal community and families in the south central and west Kimberley region in Western Australia for a 'whole of community' approach to support positive social change.
MindMatters is a national mental health initiative for secondary schools, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing and implemented by Principals Australia Inc (formerly APAPDC).
The SANE StigmaWatch program monitors the Australian media and voices community feedback about media representations to ensure accurate and respectful representation of mental illness and suicide.
The Suicide Call Back Service provides crisis counselling to people at risk of suicide, carers for someone who is suicidal and those bereaved by suicide, 24 hours per day 7 days a week across Australia.
A joint project between the Murrumbidgee Division of General Practice and the Griffith Aboriginal Medical Service, Life Matters for Koori Youth aims to address self-harming and suicidal behaviour by Indigenous youth within the communities of Western Riverina, NSW
Promote Living is a suicide prevention training project run by the Perth Primary Care Network in collaboration with the Western Australian Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention. The project consists of a series of training sessions for Western Australian GPs and nurses.
The Integrated Client Services Delivery Program for the Family Courts of Australia project aims to improve people’s access to mental health services by ensuring the court system’s processes are as supportive as possible.
Rural Alive and Well is a community suicide prevention project that was developed in response to the extreme drought conditions prevalent in the Southern Midlands and Central Highlands of Tasmania.

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LIFE News issue nine: rural and remote (March 2010)
In this edition LIFE focuses on suicide prevention in rural and remote communities, taking a look at the latest research and projects including The Yiriman Project, Farm Link, Rural Alive and Well, the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia and HITnet.

LIFE News issue eight: bereavement (January 2010)
In this edition LIFE focuses on bereavement and suicide prevention, taking a look at the latest research and projects including Support After Suicide, The Standby Response Service, the Suicide Bereavement Support Group Standards & Practice Project and SANE Australia’s Mental Illness and Bereavement Project.

LIFE News issue seven: men (October 2009)
In this edition LIFE focuses on men and suicide prevention, taking a look at the latest research and projects including MensLine Australia, Dads in Distress, the Open Doors project and TOMNet. LIFE News contributors also report on men-related health programs such as Movember, Foundation 49 and Bendigo Community Health Services.

LIFE News issue six: mental health (August 2009)
In this edition LIFE focuses on mental health and suicide prevention, taking a look at the latest research and projects including the Mindframe Stage & Screen Project, itsallright.org, the SANE Mental Illness and Bereavement Project, headspace and Multicultural Mental Health Australia. LIFE News contributors also report on mental health programs from organisations such as beyondblue and Mental Health First Aid.

LIFE News issue five: alcohol and other drugs (June 2009)
In this edition LIFE focuses on drugs and alcohol and suicide prevention, taking a look at the latest research and projects including the PALM initiative from the Ted Noffs Foundation, the National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction and many more. LIFE News contributors also report on drug and alcohol programs from organisations such as Orygen and the Australian Drug Foundation.

LIFE News issue four: youth (April 2009)
In this edition LIFE focuses on youth and suicide prevention, taking a look at the latest youth-related research and National Suicide Prevention Strategy (NSPS) projects including the Sustainable Personal Development for Aboriginal Men Project, the Peer Support Project and many more. LIFE News contributors also report on youth programs from organisations such as Mental Health First Aid and the INSPIRE Foundation.

LIFE News issue three: indigenous (February 2009)
In this edition LIFE focuses on suicide prevention in Indigenous communities, taking a look at the latest research and National Suicide Prevention Strategy (NSPS) projects. LIFE also reports on recent initiatives such as Indigenous radio network segments, Suicide Story in Central Australia and much more.

LIFE News issue two: primary care (November 2008)
In this edition we focus on primary care in suicide prevention, taking a look at the latest research and NSPS project updates. We also spotlight recent news including the formation of the new Australian Suicide Prevention Advisory Council and health care resources now available in the Northern Territory.

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