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LIFE News Issue 27: Special edition is now available online.

LIFE News is the online newsletter of the National Suicide Prevention Strategy in Australia. Published bi-monthly, LIFE News features project profiles, discussion questions, events, and more.

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Youth
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Evaluation
- A guide for using statistics for evidence based policy, 2010 [1500.0]
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Evaluation: A guide for good practice
- Is it cost-effective to prevent mental disorders?
- National activities on suicide bereavement project
- Open doors: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicide prevention project evaluation report (August 2008 to August 2009)
- Suicide Prevention Australia: organisational review for the financial year 2009/2010
- Summary of results from Indigenous suicide prevention programs 2007
- Understanding and building resilence: a suicide prevention project in the south west
- Valuing young lives: the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and its evaluation
- Working with Australians to promote mental health, prevent mental illness and support recovery: evaluation of the FaHCSIA targeted community care mental health initiatives
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Aged
- "We don't have any of those people here": retirement accommodation and aged care issues for non-heterosexual populations
- A hidden problem: Suicide in older men in Queensland
- Ageing and suicide
- Best practice guidelines: accommodating older gay, lesbian, trans and intersex (GLBTI) people
- Morbidity of Vietnam veterans: Suicide in Vietnam veterans' children (supplementary report 1)
- Retirement accommodation and aged care issues for non-heterosexual populations: literature review
- Suicide prevention for older people - Training manual
- The Department of Veteran's Affairs mental health strategy and 'Veterans at Risk'
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Bereavement
- Care and support pack for families and friends bereaved by suicide
- Helping your children after a suicide
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - ACT
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - NSW
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - NT
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - QLD
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - SA
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - TAS
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - VIC
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - WA
- Is someone close to you bereaved by suicide?
- Mental illness and bereavement kit
- National activities on suicide bereavement project
- No middle name: A mother talks about youth suicide
- Practice Handbook - Suicide Bereavement Support Group Facilitation
- square: suicide postvention counselling
- Suicide bereavement resource manual
- Suicide prevention professional development training
- Suicide: Caring for those left behind
- Supporting children after suicide: information for parents and other care givers
- Supporting children after suicide: Information for parents and other caregivers
- Survivors of Suicide: Coping with the Suicide of a Loved One
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Community
- 2011: Addressing sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity discrimination: consultation report
- A better way for mental health reform
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Aboriginal people working together to prevent suicide and self harm
- Aboriginal Safety Promotion Strategy
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Challenging homophobia in schools: a guide for staff
- Collaborations for Life Resources: Helping GPs manage Suicide Risk in General Practice
- Communities of hope - A strengths-based resource for building communities
- Developing a community plan for preventing and responding to suicide clusters
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- Drug use, dependence and mental health among gay, lesbian and bisexual people reporting regular methamphetamine use
- HIMH Community Guidelines for Discussing Suicide project: Focus group report
- Lifeline Australia: YouTube channel
- Men experiencing difficult times
- Open doors: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicide prevention project evaluation report (August 2008 to August 2009)
- Position statement - Social inclusion and suicide prevention
- Position statement: Mental illness and suicide
- Position statement: overcoming the stigma of suicide
- Position statement: Suicide and self-harm among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities
- Position statement: Support suicide attempt survivors
- Position statement: supporting suicide attempt survivors
- Practical transitioning guidelines for employers
- SA National Suicide Prevention Strategy Community Initiatives: Final Evaluation Report
- Self harm: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers
- Self-harm and young people
- square desk guide
- square: community mental health setting
- square: community setting
- square: foundations for effective practice
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury: guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
- Suicide Prevention
- Suicide Prevention Australia: YouTube channel
- Suicide prevention: Local initiatives and outcomes
- Summary of results from Indigenous suicide prevention programs 2007
- The health of the people of New South Wales: summary report
- Tips to recognise and minimise homophobic bullying in your school
- Tool kit: helping someone at risk of suicide
- What is suicide bereavement?
- Working Well Guide: reflections on providing suicide prevention projects in remote Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (Part 1)
- Working Well Guide: reflections on providing suicide prevention projects in remote Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (Part 2)
- Working with Australians to promote mental health, prevent mental illness and support recovery: evaluation of the FaHCSIA targeted community care mental health initiatives
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Culturally and linguistically diverse
- Kulunga Research Network Working Together book
- Mindframe resource for culturally and linguistically diverse media: Suicide quick reference card.
- National cultural competency tool for mental health services
- Recognizing spirituality in the assessment and prevention of suicidal behaviour
- Suicide Prevention and Capacity Building in Australian Indigenous Communities
- The cultural facet of suicidal behaviour: its importance and neglect
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Drug and alcohol
- Association of alcohol and drug use disorders and completed suicide: an empirical review of cohort studies
- Drug use, dependence and mental health among gay, lesbian and bisexual people reporting regular methamphetamine use
- Joint submission by Lifeline Australia and others (submission 65) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- Position statement - alcohol, drugs and suicide prevention
- Stories of living with self harm
- Suicide prevention measures
- The Department of Veteran's Affairs mental health strategy and 'Veterans at Risk'
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Sex, sexuality and gender diverse
- "We don't have any of those people here": retirement accommodation and aged care issues for non-heterosexual populations
- 2011: Addressing sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity discrimination: consultation report
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Best practice guidelines: accommodating older gay, lesbian, trans and intersex (GLBTI) people
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Challenging homophobia in schools: a guide for staff
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- Drug use, dependence and mental health among gay, lesbian and bisexual people reporting regular methamphetamine use
- Feeling queer and blue: a review of the literature on depression and related issues among gay, lesbian, bisexual and other homosexually active people
- Joint submission by Lifeline Australia and others (submission 65) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- Mental health, depression and anxiety in same-sex attracted people
- National LGBT Health Alliances submission (201) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- National safe schools framework: resource manual
- Open doors: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicide prevention project evaluation report (August 2008 to August 2009)
- Position statement: Suicide and self-harm among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities
- Practical transitioning guidelines for employers
- Retirement accommodation and aged care issues for non-heterosexual populations: literature review
- School's out: homosexuality, bullying and suicide
- Talkback: being gay at school
- Tips to recognise and minimise homophobic bullying in your school
- TranZnation Report
- Writing themselves in 3: the third national study on the sexual health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and gender questioning young people
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Indigenous
- 2006 Suicide Prevention Day Forum
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability: wellbeing, participation and support
- Aboriginal people working together to prevent suicide and self harm
- Aboriginal Safety Promotion Strategy
- Aboriginal suicide is different: A portrait of life and self-destruction
- Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Information
- An Analysis of Suicide in Indigenous Communities of North Queensland: The Historical, Cultural and Symbolic Landscape
- Blacktown Aboriginal Injury Surveillance and Prevention Project Report
- Cultural respect framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health 2004 2009
- Hospitalised injury of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2000-02
- Identity, Voice, Place: Suicide Prevention for Indigenous Australians - a Social and Emotional Wellbeing Approach
- Kulunga Research Network Working Together book
- Mindframe resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media and programs: Suicide quick reference card.
- Northern Territory Inquiry into Youth Suicide
- Shoalhaven Aboriginal Injury Surveillance and Prevention Project: Phase 1 report
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury: guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
- Suicide Awareness for Aboriginal communities
- Suicide in Western Australia 1986-2002
- Suicide Prevention and Capacity Building in Australian Indigenous Communities
- Suicide prevention in Aboriginal communities: A best practice model of community driven prevention
- Suicide prevention professional development training
- Summary of results from Indigenous suicide prevention programs 2007
- The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Safety Promotion Strategy
- The Sydney statement of the national forum on men and suicide
- Understanding and building resilence: a suicide prevention project in the south west
- Working Well Guide: reflections on providing suicide prevention projects in remote Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (Part 1)
- Working Well Guide: reflections on providing suicide prevention projects in remote Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (Part 2)
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Men
- A hidden problem: Suicide in older men in Queensland
- A snapshot of men's health in regional and remote Australia
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Feeling queer and blue: a review of the literature on depression and related issues among gay, lesbian, bisexual and other homosexually active people
- Intersectoral and interagency partnerships to investigate youth help-seeking and the responses of at-risk young men to intervention services
- Joint submission by Lifeline Australia and others (submission 65) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- LIFE: Promoting Good Practice in Suicide Prevention
- Making it OK to be male: Paper for 8th national Australian suicide prevention conference
- Men and Suicide – Future Directions
- Men experiencing difficult times
- Preamble to the draft blue print: Developing a national vision. “In one generation suicide will no longer exist as a health risk for men
- Reducing suicide in men through general practice
- Suicide explained: The Australian experience
- Suicide in Western Australia 1986-2002
- Suicide Prevention
- Suicide prevention measures
- Suicide prevention: Local initiatives and outcomes
- The Sydney statement of the national forum on men and suicide
- Thinking about suicide: one survivor's perspective (Part 1 of 2)
- Understanding and building resilence: a suicide prevention project in the south west
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Mental health
- 2011: Addressing sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity discrimination: consultation report
- A better way for mental health reform
- A review of the relationship between mental disorders and offending behaviours and on the management of mentally abnormal offenders in the health and criminal justice services.
- A snapshot of men's health in regional and remote Australia
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Adolescent mental health: depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying Pt 1
- Adolescent mental health: depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying Pt 2
- Allan Fels on mental health and suicide prevention
- Association of alcohol and drug use disorders and completed suicide: an empirical review of cohort studies
- Best practice guidelines: accommodating older gay, lesbian, trans and intersex (GLBTI) people
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Bipolar disorder: Costs. An analysis of the burden of bipolar disorder and related suicide in Australia
- Calls to add mental health to high school subjects list
- Challenging homophobia in schools: a guide for staff
- Community matters: Working with diversity for wellbeing
- Depression
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- Drug use, dependence and mental health among gay, lesbian and bisexual people reporting regular methamphetamine use
- Fact or fiction? Reporting Mental Illness and Suicide
- Feeling queer and blue: a review of the literature on depression and related issues among gay, lesbian, bisexual and other homosexually active people
- Is it cost-effective to prevent mental disorders?
- Joint submission by Lifeline Australia and others (submission 65) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- Kulunga Research Network Working Together book
- Men experiencing difficult times
- Mental health safety guidelines
- Mental health, depression and anxiety in same-sex attracted people
- Mental illness and bereavement kit
- National cultural competency tool for mental health services
- National LGBT Health Alliances submission (201) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- National Mental Health Information Priorities Workshop - Proceedings
- National safe schools framework: resource manual
- NSW Government response to 'Tracking tragedy' 2004: 2nd report of the NSW Mental Sentinel
- People living with psychotic illness
- Position statement - alcohol, drugs and suicide prevention
- Position statement: Mental illness and suicide
- Position statement: overcoming the stigma of suicide
- Practice principles: A guide for mental health clinicians working with suicidal children
- Preliminary evaluation of a university-based suicide intervention project: Impact on participants
- Recommendations on mental health reform in Australia 2008-2010
- Reporting suicide and mental illness: A resource for media professionals
- Safety after leaving hospital: the reduction in risk of suicide in people who are discharged from inpatient mental health care
- SANE Helpline 2007: A report on SANE Australia's national mental illness helpline
- Schizophrenia: Costs. An analysis of the burden of schizophrenia and related suicide in Australia. An access economics report for SANE Australia 2002
- School's out: homosexuality, bullying and suicide
- Seeking solutions to self-injury: a guide for young people
- Self-harm and young people
- Social inclusion as a determinant on mental health and wellbeing
- square: community mental health setting
- square: mental health in-patient setting
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury: guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
- Suicide and mental illness in the media: A Mindframe resource for the mental health sector
- Suicide Prevention
- Suicide prevention for older people - Training manual
- Suicide prevention measures
- Suicide Risk and Protective Factors - Screening Tool
- Talkback: being gay at school
- The cultural facet of suicidal behaviour: its importance and neglect
- The Department of Veteran's Affairs mental health strategy and 'Veterans at Risk'
- The health of the people of New South Wales: summary report
- The Media Monitoring Project: A baseline description of how the Australian media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness
- The Media Monitoring Project: Changes in media reporting of suicide and mental health and illness in Australia: 2000/01–2006/07
- The Media Monitoring Project: Changes in media reporting of suicide and mental health and illness in Australia: 2000/01–2006/07 (Executive Summary)
- The SANE guide to staying alive
- Thinking about suicide (Part 2 of 2)
- Thinking about suicide: one survivor's perspective (Part 1 of 2)
- Time for service : solving Australia's mental health crisis
- Tips to recognise and minimise homophobic bullying in your school
- Tracking Tragedy: A systemic look at suicides and homicides amongst mental health patients
- Tracking tragedy: First report of the committee
- TranZnation Report
- Turning points: an extraordinary journey into the suicidal mind
- Working with Australians to promote mental health, prevent mental illness and support recovery: evaluation of the FaHCSIA targeted community care mental health initiatives
Back to top
Policy
- "We don't have any of those people here": retirement accommodation and aged care issues for non-heterosexual populations
- ADF [Australian Defence Force] Suicide Prevention Program
- Best practice guidelines: accommodating older gay, lesbian, trans and intersex (GLBTI) people
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Crisis response and the role of emergency services and first responders
- Cultural respect framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health 2004 2009
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- Is it cost-effective to prevent mental disorders?
- Joint submission by Lifeline Australia and others (submission 65) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- Living Is For Everyone (LIFE) Framework
- Living Is For Everyone: Resource and Evidence in Suicide Prevention
- Model policies on working with young people for non-residential youth services in NSW: Part 7 - Safety
- National LGBT Health Alliances submission (201) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- Position statement - alcohol, drugs and suicide prevention
- Recommendations on mental health reform in Australia 2008-2010
- SA National Suicide Prevention Strategy Community Initiatives: Final Evaluation Report
- Suicide Prevention Australia: YouTube channel
- Valuing young lives: the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and its evaluation
Back to top
Risk and protective factors
- "We don't have any of those people here": retirement accommodation and aged care issues for non-heterosexual populations
- 2011: Addressing sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity discrimination: consultation report
- A better way for mental health reform
- A hidden problem: Suicide in older men in Queensland
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- ADF [Australian Defence Force] Suicide Prevention Program
- Adolescent mental health: depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying Pt 1
- Adolescent mental health: depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying Pt 2
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Challenging homophobia in schools: a guide for staff
- Collaborations for Life Resources: Helping GPs manage Suicide Risk in General Practice
- Crisis response and the role of emergency services and first responders
- Deaths of Children and Young People: Queensland 2005-06
- Depression
- Fact sheet 15: Managing self-harm
- Feeling queer and blue: a review of the literature on depression and related issues among gay, lesbian, bisexual and other homosexually active people
- Insight suicide prevention: youth suicide
- Intersectoral and interagency partnerships to investigate youth help-seeking and the responses of at-risk young men to intervention services
- Is it cost-effective to prevent mental disorders?
- LIFE: Promoting Good Practice in Suicide Prevention
- Men experiencing difficult times
- Mental health, depression and anxiety in same-sex attracted people
- Mental illness and bereavement kit
- Moving on and thinking about suicide
- National LGBT Health Alliances submission (201) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- National safe schools framework
- National safe schools framework: resource manual
- Open doors: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicide prevention project evaluation report (August 2008 to August 2009)
- Position statement - alcohol, drugs and suicide prevention
- Position statement - Social inclusion and suicide prevention
- Position statement: Mental illness and suicide
- Position statement: overcoming the stigma of suicide
- Position statement: Suicide and self-harm among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities
- Position statement: Support suicide attempt survivors
- Position statement: supporting suicide attempt survivors
- Practical transitioning guidelines for employers
- Recognizing spirituality in the assessment and prevention of suicidal behaviour
- Responding to Suicide in Rural Australia
- Retirement accommodation and aged care issues for non-heterosexual populations: literature review
- Risk Factors for Suicide and Protective Factors for Suicide
- Safer Plan and Suicide Risk Assessment
- Self harm: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers
- Self-harm and young people
- Shoalhaven Aboriginal Injury Surveillance and Prevention Project: Phase 1 report
- Social inclusion as a determinant on mental health and wellbeing
- Speaking out about suicide - interview with Thomas Joiner
- square desk guide
- square: in-patient setting
- square: suicide postvention counselling
- Suicidal behaviour and self harm
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury: guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
- Suicide postvention guidelines - part 2
- Suicide Risk and Protective Factors - Screening Tool
- Suicide risk assessment and management: Emergency department
- Summary of results from Indigenous suicide prevention programs 2007
- Talkback: being gay at school
- The cultural facet of suicidal behaviour: its importance and neglect
- The health of the people of New South Wales: summary report
- The silent epidemic
- Tips to recognise and minimise homophobic bullying in your school
- Turning points: an extraordinary journey into the suicidal mind
- Understanding youth suicide
- Working Well Guide: reflections on providing suicide prevention projects in remote Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (Part 1)
- Writing themselves in 3: the third national study on the sexual health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and gender questioning young people
- Youth at Risk Networks (YARN) initiative, Grampians Region. Phase 1: Project Report
- Youth suicide prevention position statement
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Rural and remote
- A snapshot of men's health in regional and remote Australia
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Aboriginal people working together to prevent suicide and self harm
- An Analysis of Suicide in Indigenous Communities of North Queensland: The Historical, Cultural and Symbolic Landscape
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- LIFE: Promoting Good Practice in Suicide Prevention
- Northern Territory Inquiry into Youth Suicide
- Regional suicide rates in Queensland
- Responding to Suicide in Rural Australia
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury: guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
- Suicide prevention professional development training
- Suicide prevention: Local initiatives and outcomes
- The Sydney statement of the national forum on men and suicide
- Youth at Risk Networks (YARN) initiative, Grampians Region. Phase 1: Project Report
Back to top
Self-harm
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Aboriginal people working together to prevent suicide and self harm
- Aboriginal Safety Promotion Strategy
- Fact sheet 15: Managing self-harm
- Feeling queer and blue: a review of the literature on depression and related issues among gay, lesbian, bisexual and other homosexually active people
- Help-seeking behaviours of suicidal men aged 17-35 years: A consumer consulatation and participation project.
- Hospital separations due to injury and poisoning, Australia 2001-02
- Hospitalised injury of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 2000-02
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - ACT
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - NSW
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - NT
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - TAS
- Men and Suicide – Future Directions
- Mental health, depression and anxiety in same-sex attracted people
- Position statement: Support suicide attempt survivors
- Seeking solutions to self-injury: a guide for young people
- Self Harm - an information booklet for young people who who self harm
- Self harm: Australian treatment guide for consumers and carers
- Self-harm
- Self-harm and young people
- Shoalhaven Aboriginal Injury Surveillance and Prevention Project: Phase 1 report
- Stories of living with self harm
- Strategies for managing suicide and self harm in prisons
- Suicide and hospitalised self-harm in Australia
- Suicide prevention professional development training
- Talkback: being gay at school
- The health of the people of New South Wales: summary report
- The silent epidemic
- Treating self injury
Back to top
Self-help
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - SA
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - VIC
- Information & support pack for those bereaved by suicide or other sudden death - WA
- Mental health safety guidelines
- Writing themselves in 3: the third national study on the sexual health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and gender questioning young people
Back to top
Suicidal behaviour
- 2011: Addressing sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity discrimination: consultation report
- A better way for mental health reform
- A snapshot of men's health in regional and remote Australia
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- ADF [Australian Defence Force] Suicide Prevention Program
- Adolescent mental health: depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying Pt 2
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Challenging homophobia in schools: a guide for staff
- Crisis response and the role of emergency services and first responders
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- Drug use, dependence and mental health among gay, lesbian and bisexual people reporting regular methamphetamine use
- Feeling queer and blue: a review of the literature on depression and related issues among gay, lesbian, bisexual and other homosexually active people
- Insight suicide prevention: youth suicide
- Is it cost-effective to prevent mental disorders?
- Is someone close to you bereaved by suicide?
- Joint submission by Lifeline Australia and others (submission 65) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- Men and Suicide – Future Directions
- Mental health, depression and anxiety in same-sex attracted people
- Mental illness and bereavement kit
- Moving on and thinking about suicide
- National safe schools framework: resource manual
- Open doors: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicide prevention project evaluation report (August 2008 to August 2009)
- Position statement - alcohol, drugs and suicide prevention
- Position statement: overcoming the stigma of suicide
- Position statement: Suicide and self-harm among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities
- Position statement: Support suicide attempt survivors
- Position statement: supporting suicide attempt survivors
- Practical transitioning guidelines for employers
- Recognizing spirituality in the assessment and prevention of suicidal behaviour
- Recommendations on mental health reform in Australia 2008-2010
- Retirement accommodation and aged care issues for non-heterosexual populations: literature review
- School's out: homosexuality, bullying and suicide
- Speaking out about suicide - interview with Thomas Joiner
- square: community mental health setting
- square: emergency department setting
- Suicidal behaviour and self harm
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury: guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
- Suicide postvention guidelines - part 1
- Suicide postvention guidelines - part 2
- Suicide Prevention
- Suicide prevention professional development training
- Summary of results from Indigenous suicide prevention programs 2007
- Talkback: being gay at school
- The cultural facet of suicidal behaviour: its importance and neglect
- The health of the people of New South Wales: summary report
- The Media Monitoring Project: Changes in media reporting of suicide and mental health and illness in Australia: 2000/01–2006/07
- The Media Monitoring Project: Changes in media reporting of suicide and mental health and illness in Australia: 2000/01–2006/07 (Executive Summary)
- Thinking about suicide (Part 2 of 2)
- Thinking about suicide: one survivor's perspective (Part 1 of 2)
- Tips to recognise and minimise homophobic bullying in your school
- Tool kit: helping someone at risk of suicide
- TranZnation Report
- Turning points: an extraordinary journey into the suicidal mind
- Understanding and building resilence: a suicide prevention project in the south west
- Understanding and preventing suicide in young people
- What is suicide bereavement?
- Working Well Guide: reflections on providing suicide prevention projects in remote Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (Part 1)
- Working Well Guide: reflections on providing suicide prevention projects in remote Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (Part 2)
- Working with Australians to promote mental health, prevent mental illness and support recovery: evaluation of the FaHCSIA targeted community care mental health initiatives
- Writing themselves in 3: the third national study on the sexual health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and gender questioning young people
- Youth suicide prevention position statement
Back to top
Suicide prevention
- A better way for mental health reform
- A Manual to Guide the Development of Local Evaluation Plans: Evaluating initiatives within the LIFE Framework using a Program Logic Approach.
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Aboriginal people working together to prevent suicide and self harm
- Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Information
- ADF [Australian Defence Force] Suicide Prevention Program
- Allan Fels on mental health and suicide prevention
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Calls to add mental health to high school subjects list
- Challenging homophobia in schools: a guide for staff
- Collaborations for Life Resources: Helping GPs manage Suicide Risk in General Practice
- Community matters: Working with diversity for wellbeing
- Cultural respect framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health 2004 2009
- Deaths of Children and Young People: Queensland 2005-06
- Developing a community plan for preventing and responding to suicide clusters
- Evaluation: A guide for good practice
- Evaluation: A guide for good practice
- HIMH Community Guidelines for Discussing Suicide project: Focus group report
- Identity, Voice, Place: Suicide Prevention for Indigenous Australians - a Social and Emotional Wellbeing Approach
- If Your Friend Threatens to Take Their Own Life
- Insight suicide prevention: youth suicide
- Is it cost-effective to prevent mental disorders?
- Joint submission by Lifeline Australia and others (submission 65) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- Lifeline Australia: YouTube channel
- Living Is For Everyone (LIFE) Framework
- Living Is For Everyone: Resource and Evidence in Suicide Prevention
- Making it OK to be male: Paper for 8th national Australian suicide prevention conference
- Men and Suicide – Future Directions
- Mental health safety guidelines
- Mental illness and bereavement kit
- Mindframe resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media and programs: Suicide quick reference card.
- Moving on and thinking about suicide
- National activities on suicide bereavement project
- National cultural competency tool for mental health services
- National Mental Health Information Priorities Workshop - Proceedings
- National safe schools framework: resource manual
- National Suicide Prevention Strategies: a comparison
- Open doors: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicide prevention project evaluation report (August 2008 to August 2009)
- Position statement - alcohol, drugs and suicide prevention
- Position statement - Social inclusion and suicide prevention
- Position statement: overcoming the stigma of suicide
- Position statement: Suicide and self-harm among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities
- Position statement: Support suicide attempt survivors
- Position statement: supporting suicide attempt survivors
- Practice Handbook - Suicide Bereavement Support Group Facilitation
- Preamble to the draft blue print: Developing a national vision. “In one generation suicide will no longer exist as a health risk for men
- Preliminary evaluation of a university-based suicide intervention project: Impact on participants
- Recognizing spirituality in the assessment and prevention of suicidal behaviour
- Recommendations on mental health reform in Australia 2008-2010
- Reducing suicide in men through general practice
- Social clusters and suicide contagion
- Social inclusion as a determinant on mental health and wellbeing
- square desk guide
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury: guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
- Suicide Awareness for Aboriginal communities
- Suicide in New South Wales: We need to know more - The NSW suicide data report
- Suicide postvention guidelines - part 1
- Suicide postvention guidelines - part 2
- Suicide Prevention
- Suicide Prevention Australia: organisational review for the financial year 2009/2010
- Suicide Prevention Australia: YouTube channel
- Suicide prevention for older people - Training manual
- Suicide prevention in Aboriginal communities: A best practice model of community driven prevention
- Suicide prevention professional development training
- Suicide prevention: Local initiatives and outcomes
- Summary of results from Indigenous suicide prevention programs 2007
- Talkback: being gay at school
- The first planning forum of the National Advisory Council for Suicide Prevention
- Thinking about suicide (Part 2 of 2)
- Thinking about suicide: one survivor's perspective (Part 1 of 2)
- Thinking of suicide - Finding help if you're feeling suicidal
- Time for service : solving Australia's mental health crisis
- Tips to recognise and minimise homophobic bullying in your school
- Tool kit: helping someone at risk of suicide
- Understanding and building resilence: a suicide prevention project in the south west
- Understanding and preventing suicide in young people
- Understanding youth suicide
- Using the Internet for Suicide Prevention: A guide
- Valuing young lives: the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and its evaluation
- What is suicide bereavement?
- Working Well Guide: reflections on providing suicide prevention projects in remote Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (Part 1)
- Working Well Guide: reflections on providing suicide prevention projects in remote Aboriginal Communities in Central Australia (Part 2)
- Working with Australians to promote mental health, prevent mental illness and support recovery: evaluation of the FaHCSIA targeted community care mental health initiatives
- Young Adult Help – Health Topics - Suicide
- Youth suicide prevention position statement
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Veterans
- ADF [Australian Defence Force] Suicide Prevention Program
- Morbidity of Vietnam veterans: Suicide in Vietnam veterans' children (supplementary report 1)
- The Department of Veteran's Affairs mental health strategy and 'Veterans at Risk'
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Women
- Feeling queer and blue: a review of the literature on depression and related issues among gay, lesbian, bisexual and other homosexually active people
- Mental health, depression and anxiety in same-sex attracted people
- Suicide in Western Australia 1986-2002
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Media
- Mindframe resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander media and programs: Suicide quick reference card.
- Position statement: overcoming the stigma of suicide
- The facts about safe reporting of suicide
- The Media Monitoring Project: Changes in media reporting of suicide and mental health and illness in Australia: 2000/01–2006/07
- The Media Monitoring Project: Changes in media reporting of suicide and mental health and illness in Australia: 2000/01–2006/07 (Executive Summary)
- Thinking about suicide (Part 2 of 2)
- Using the Internet for Suicide Prevention: A guide
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Youth
- A better way for mental health reform
- A spider in the web: evaluation of phase 2 of the Understanding & Building Resilience in the South West Project
- Aboriginal suicide is different: A portrait of life and self-destruction
- Adolescent mental health: depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying Pt 1
- Adolescent mental health: depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying Pt 2
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Calls to add mental health to high school subjects list
- Challenging homophobia in schools: a guide for staff
- Child Death Case Review Committee Annual Report 2005-06: Reviews of child deaths known to the Queensland child protection systems
- Community matters: Working with diversity for wellbeing
- Deaths of children and young people Queensland 2004-05: Annual report
- Deaths of Children and Young People: Queensland 2005-06
- Depression
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- Fact sheet 15: Managing self-harm
- Feeling queer and blue: a review of the literature on depression and related issues among gay, lesbian, bisexual and other homosexually active people
- Guidelines for the management of deliberate self harm in young people
- Helping your children after a suicide
- Insight suicide prevention: youth suicide
- Intersectoral and interagency partnerships to investigate youth help-seeking and the responses of at-risk young men to intervention services
- Is someone close to you bereaved by suicide?
- Leaving early - Youth suicide
- Mental health, depression and anxiety in same-sex attracted people
- Model policies on working with young people for non-residential youth services in NSW: Part 7 - Safety
- National safe schools framework
- National safe schools framework: resource manual
- No middle name: A mother talks about youth suicide
- Northern Territory Inquiry into Youth Suicide
- Open doors: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicide prevention project evaluation report (August 2008 to August 2009)
- Practice principles: A guide for mental health clinicians working with suicidal children
- Regional suicide rates in Queensland
- School's out: homosexuality, bullying and suicide
- Seeking solutions to self-injury: a guide for young people
- Self Harm - an information booklet for young people who who self harm
- Self-harm and young people
- Stories of living with self harm
- Suicidal behaviour and self harm
- Suicide and risk-taking deaths of children and young people
- Suicide postvention guidelines - part 1
- Suicide postvention guidelines - part 2
- Suicide prevention professional development training
- Suicide prevention: Local initiatives and outcomes
- Summary of results from Indigenous suicide prevention programs 2007
- Supporting children after suicide: information for parents and other care givers
- Supporting children after suicide: Information for parents and other caregivers
- Talkback: being gay at school
- Technology and Young People
- Technology and Young People - Rationale
- The silent epidemic
- Thinking of suicide - Finding help if you're feeling suicidal
- Tips to recognise and minimise homophobic bullying in your school
- TranZnation Report
- Understanding and preventing suicide in young people
- Understanding youth suicide
- Valuing young lives: the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and its evaluation
- Writing themselves in 3: the third national study on the sexual health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and gender questioning young people
- Youth at Risk Networks (YARN) initiative, Grampians Region. Phase 1: Project Report
- Youth suicide prevention position statement
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Suicide hotspots and suicide clusters
- Developing a community plan for preventing and responding to suicide clusters
- Preventing suicide at suicide hotspots
- Social clusters and suicide contagion
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Abuse
- 2011: Addressing sexual orientation and sex and/or gender identity discrimination: consultation report
- Adolescent mental health: depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying Pt 1
- Adolescent mental health: depression, suicidality and cyber-bullying Pt 2
- Challenging homophobia in schools: a guide for staff
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- National safe schools framework
- National safe schools framework: resource manual
- Open doors: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicide prevention project evaluation report (August 2008 to August 2009)
- Practical transitioning guidelines for employers
- School's out: homosexuality, bullying and suicide
- Stories of living with self harm
- Talkback: being gay at school
- What is suicide bereavement?
- Writing themselves in 3: the third national study on the sexual health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and gender questioning young people
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Intervention and professional support
- A better way for mental health reform
- Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Information
- Lifeline Australia: YouTube channel
- Position statement: supporting suicide attempt survivors
- Suicide Prevention
- Suicide prevention professional development training
- Thinking about suicide (Part 2 of 2)
- Valuing young lives: the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy and its evaluation
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Statistics
- A better way for mental health reform
- A guide for using statistics for evidence based policy, 2010 [1500.0]
- A snapshot of men's health in regional and remote Australia
- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability: wellbeing, participation and support
- Aboriginal suicide is different: A portrait of life and self-destruction
- Ageing and suicide
- Beyond homophobia: meeting the needs of same sex attracted and gender questioning (SSAGQ) young people in Victoria
- Blacktown Aboriginal Injury Surveillance and Prevention Project Report
- Challenging homophobia in schools: a guide for staff
- Child Death Case Review Committee Annual Report 2005-06: Reviews of child deaths known to the Queensland child protection systems
- Communities of hope - A strengths-based resource for building communities
- Deaths of children and young people Queensland 2004-05: Annual report
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- Don't ask, don't tell. Hidden in the crowd: the need for documenting links between sexuality and suicidal behaviours among young people
- Evaluation: A guide for good practice
- Feeling queer and blue: a review of the literature on depression and related issues among gay, lesbian, bisexual and other homosexually active people
- Help-seeking behaviours of suicidal men aged 17-35 years: A consumer consulatation and participation project.
- Hospital separations due to injury and poisoning, Australia 2001-02
- Identity, Voice, Place: Suicide Prevention for Indigenous Australians - a Social and Emotional Wellbeing Approach
- Injury Deaths Australia 2003-04
- International suicide rates - Recent trends and implications for Australia
- Joint submission by Lifeline Australia and others (submission 65) to Inquiry into suicide in Australia
- LIFE: Promoting Good Practice in Suicide Prevention
- Living Is For Everyone: Resource and Evidence in Suicide Prevention
- Mental health, depression and anxiety in same-sex attracted people
- Mortality over the twentieth century in Australia: Trends and patterns in major causes of death
- Moving on and thinking about suicide
- National activities on suicide bereavement project
- National safe schools framework: resource manual
- National Suicide Prevention Strategies: a comparison
- Northern Territory Inquiry into Youth Suicide
- Open doors: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth suicide prevention project evaluation report (August 2008 to August 2009)
- People living with psychotic illness
- Position statement - alcohol, drugs and suicide prevention
- Position statement: Mental illness and suicide
- Position statement: Suicide and self-harm among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities
- Position statement: Support suicide attempt survivors
- Practical transitioning guidelines for employers
- Preamble to the draft blue print: Developing a national vision. “In one generation suicide will no longer exist as a health risk for men
- Recognizing spirituality in the assessment and prevention of suicidal behaviour
- Recommendations on mental health reform in Australia 2008-2010
- Reducing suicide in men through general practice
- Response Ability: Reporting on mental illness and suicide: resources for journalism education
- School's out: homosexuality, bullying and suicide
- Seeking solutions to self-injury: a guide for young people
- Sentinel events in Australian public hospitals 2004-05
- Suicidal thoughts and behaviours and deliberate self-injury: guidelines for providing mental health first aid to an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person
- Suicide Awareness for Aboriginal communities
- Suicide bereavement resource manual
- Suicide explained: The Australian experience
- Suicide in New South Wales: We need to know more - The NSW suicide data report
- Suicide in Western Australia 1986-2002
- Suicide postvention guidelines - part 1
- Suicide postvention guidelines - part 2
- Suicide Prevention
- Suicide Prevention Australia: YouTube channel
- Suicides Australia, 1921 to 1998
- Summary of results from Indigenous suicide prevention programs 2007
- Talkback: being gay at school
- Technology and Young People
- Technology and Young People - Rationale
- The cultural facet of suicidal behaviour: its importance and neglect
- The Media Monitoring Project: A baseline description of how the Australian media report and portray suicide and mental health and illness
- The silent epidemic
- Thinking about suicide (Part 2 of 2)
- Thinking about suicide: one survivor's perspective (Part 1 of 2)
- TranZnation Report
- Trends in Suicide in New South Wales
- Understanding and building resilence: a suicide prevention project in the south west
- Understanding and preventing suicide in young people
- Writing themselves in 3: the third national study on the sexual health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and gender questioning young people
- Youth suicide prevention position statement
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