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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 LifeForce suicide prevention project is a national suicide prevention program that aims to educate, empower and resource Australian communities.
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.
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.
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.
CAN - Community Connections emphasises the value of consumer led service delivery no matter what the consumer's mental health problem(s) may be.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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).
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.
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.

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CAN – Community Connections

CAN’s philosophy emphasises the value of consumer led service delivery no matter what the consumer's mental health problem(s) may be.
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Community Activity Programs through Education-Indigenous Police Citizen Youth Club (Cape PCYC)

Serving Indigenous youth aged 8 to 23, the overall aim of the Cape Indigenous PCYC is to reduce youth boredom through sport and recreation.
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Community Connections

Community Connections supports older men in Queensland rural areas who are at high risk of suicide. The program is coordinated through inter-agency referrals.
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Farm Link

The Farm Link suicide prevention project seeks to improve the mental health and well-being of people who live and work on NSW farms.
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Life Matters for Koori Youth in the Western Riverina

This joint project between the Murrumbidgee Division of General Practice and the Griffith Aboriginal Medical Service aims to address self-harming and suicidal behaviour by Indigenous youth within the communities of Western Riverina, NSW.
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LifeForce suicide prevention program

LifeForce works in rural and regional communities of NSW, providing suicide prevention education and resources.
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OzHelp expansion to Goulburn, Queanbeyan and NSW

This project is to widening the geographic area covered by the OzHelp work-based program of support, advice and counselling for apprentices within the construction industry.
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OzHelp Tasmania: Providing Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention Services Incorporating Suicide Prevention and Social Capacity Building Programs

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, with a particular focus on apprentices. The project won a Tasmanian LIFE award in 2008 - the 'Red herring surf healthy workplaces award' - for its work throughout the state.
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OzHelp WA

The overall focus of OzHelp WA is to deliver industry based preventative programs which equip apprentices with leadership, self management and life skills.
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Post discharge care for high risk psychiatric patients

This 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.
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Promote Living

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.
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Rural Alive and Well

Rural Alive and Well is a a Tasmanian rural outreach suicide prevention project that targets farmers and families affected by extreme drought conditions.
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The Yiriman Project

The Yiriman Project is a suicide prevention initiative that works with Aboriginal community and families for a 'whole of community' approach to support positive social change.
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