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The LifeForce suicide prevention project is a national suicide prevention program that aims to educate, empower and resource Australian communities.
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 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 Mental Health First Aid Training and Research Program conducts research and training courses that aspire to increase Australians’ understanding of mental health.
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.
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.
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 Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project uses community radio networks around Australia to build a greater understanding of issues surrounding mental health and suicide prevention.
CAN - Community Connections emphasises the value of consumer led service delivery no matter what the consumer's mental health problem(s) may be.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 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.
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
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 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.
Community Connections supports older men in Queensland rural areas who are at high risk of suicide. The program is coordinated through inter-agency referrals.
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.
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.
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 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.
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).
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.
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 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 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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LIFE News issue 10, which focuses on suicide prevention in CALD communities, 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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The LIFE website does not provide crisis intervention or counselling. The information that can be accessed here is not a substitute for professional care. If you are in need of urgent support or are worried about someone, please contact your local doctor or the agencies below.

National telephone counselling services

Lifeline
13 11 14
(24 hour phone counselling)

Kids Help Line
1800 55 1800
(24 hour professional phone counselling)

The Salvation Army Hope Line (bereavement support)
1300 467 354
(24 hour phone counselling)

Suicide Call Back Service
1300 659 467
(Professional call back service referral line operates seven days a week)

Mensline Australia
1300 789 978
(24 hour professional phone counselling and referral)

Veterans Line
1800 011 046
(after hours professional telephone crisis counselling for Vietnam veterans and their families)

Information and referral

SANE Helpline
1800 18 SANE (7263)
(information and advice Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm EST)

beyondblue line
1300 22 4636

Websites

Support After Suicide

State and territory crisis telephone counselling services

ACT

Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team
1800 629 354

New South Wales

NSW Rural Mental Health Support Line
1800 201 123

Suicide Prevention and Crisis Intervention
1300 363 622

Salvo Care Line
02 9331 6000

Northern Territory

Crisis Line Northern Territory
1800 019 116

Queensland

Crisis Counselling Service
1300 363 622

South Australia

Mental Health Assessment and Crisis Intervention Service
13 14 65

Tasmania

Samaritans Lifelink
(country – 1300 364 566; metro – 03 6331 3355)

Victoria

SuicideLine (VIC)
1300 651 251

Western Australia

Samaritans Suicide Emergency
(country – 1800 198 313; metro – 08 9381 5555)

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