LIFE Framework
The Living Is For Everyone (LIFE) Framework is Australia’s national resource of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy.
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LIFE Framework is the latest in a series of national suicide prevention initiatives that began in the early 1990s. It provides national strategy for action based on the best available evidence to guide activities aimed at reducing the rate at which people take their own lives.
The materials aim to support population health approaches and activities that will assist in reducing the loss of life through suicide in Australia.
The LIFE Framework is based on the understanding that:
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suicide prevention activites will do no harm
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that there will be community ownership and responsibility for action to prevent suicide
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that service delivery will be client-centred.
The LIFE Framework is particularly aimed at academics, researchers, policy makers, health or community services professionals, service providers and community organisations.
In short the LIFE Framework aims to:
- improve understanding of suicide
- raise awareness of appropriate ways of responding to people considering taking their own life
- raise awareness of the role people can play in reducing loss of life to suicide.
The LIFE Framework was developed after extensive consultations. These consultations involved the wider Australian community and included representatives from:
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commonwealth and state government departments
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academics and researchers
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health and community service professionals
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peak bodies and service providers in the public and non government sectors
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local communities, services and recreation clubs
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special interest groups; people bereaved by suicide
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families, friends and individuals.
The consultations were supplemented by a wider canvassing of the most recent international and national research.
The LIFE Framework also provides a summary of current understandings in suicide such as risk and protective factors, vulnerability and risk, tipping points and warning signs.