Current national projects
The Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project
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. It seeks to utilise a network of over 250 community radio stations to provide help-seeking and wellbeing messages to a wide and diverse range of communities.
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headspace
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.
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Integrated Client Services Delivery Program for the Family Courts of Australia
The Family Courts project aims to improve people’s access to mental health services by ensuring the court system’s processes are as supportive as possible. The program assists court staff to support the mental health and emotional wellbeing of clients by; promoting awareness of mental health patient's needs, providing skills in risk assesment, and providing resources.
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Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training and Research Program
The Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Training and Research Program conducts research and training courses that aspire to increase Australians’ understanding of mental health.
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Mindframe Media and Mental Health (MMMH)
This initiative seeks to influence the media industry and the mental health sector to report mental illness and suicide issues responsibly, accurately and sensitively. Activities include media monitoring research, resources for media professionals, resources for community action against stigma, and curriculum resources for journalism students and educators.
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MindMatters
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). MindMatters promotes a whole school approach to mental health, wellbeing and suicide prevention, focusing not just on individual students with identified needs but also on entire school communities.
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Multicultural Mental Health Australia
Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA) provides national leadership in building greater awareness of mental health and suicide prevention amongst Australians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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SANE Mental Illness and Bereavement Project
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.
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Reach Out Pro
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.
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The SANE StigmaWatch Program
The SANE StigmaWatch program monitors the Australian media to ensure accurate and respectful representation of mental illness and suicide. StigmaWatch voices community feedback about representations within the media that stigmatise mental illness or inadvertently promote self-harm and suicide.
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StandBy Response Service
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.
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Suicide Bereavement Support Group Standards & Practice Project
Lifeline Australia’s Suicide Bereavement Support Group Standards & Practice Project (SBSGSPP) 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.
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Suicide Call Back Service (SCBS)
The Suicide Call Back Service (SCBS) is a free, national and professional telephone counselling service for people at risk of suicide, their carers and people bereaved by suicide. The SCBS supports callers through six counselling sessions, scheduled to suit clients' needs and is available seven days a week 10am - 8.30pm.
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Suicide, QUestions, Answers and REsources (square)
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.
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