Current community projects

Building Resilience in the Central Highlands (B-RICH)

This project focuses on early intervention and prevention strategies for parents and teachers in the Tasmanian Central Highlands.
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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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From Harm to Calm: promoting help-seeking in young people who self harm

Targeting young people aged 10-18 and their families in the Victorian council of Nillumbik, the From Harm to Calm project aims to promote help-seeking in young people who self-harm.
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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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Living Works

This project is rolling out two new programs across the Pilbara (WA): 'SafeTALK', which prepares people to be a suicide alert helper; and 'Grief and Loss - Counselling the Bereaved.'
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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: a New Building and Construction Industry-Based Suicide Prevention Initiative

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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Reducing Suicide and Its Impact In Culturally Diverse Communities in Tasmania

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.
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Refugee Youth Active and Connected with Everyone (RYACE)

Young refugees at risk of suicide are better connected through sport and other recreational activities by developing relationships with peers and health professionals.
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Youth Refugee Suicide and Self-harm Awareness and Support Initiative

The purpose of the Youth Refugee Suicide and Self-harm Awareness and Support 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.
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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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We Know Our Strengths

The Waltja Palyapayi Aboriginal Corporation management committee of senior Indigenous women called for intergenerational activities to help reduce the occurrence of suicide and suicidal behaviour.
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LIFE News

LIFE News issue 8, which focuses on bereavement and suicide prevention, is now available online.

LIFE News is the online newsletter of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy in Australia. Published bi-monthly, LIFE News features comment, project updates, national and international research, and much more.

Previous editions of LIFE News can be located in the LIFE News archive.

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