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.
Read more... headspaceheadspace 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 ProgramThe 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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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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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.
Read more… 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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The SANE StigmaWatch ProgramThe 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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Suicide Bereavement Support Group Standards & Practice ProjectLifeline 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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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 LinkThe 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 harmTargeting 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 RiverinaThis 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 works in rural and regional communities of NSW, providing suicide prevention education and resources.
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Living WorksThis 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 NSWThis 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 InitiativeOzHelp 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.
Read more… Promote LivingPromote 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 TasmaniaReducing 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. Read more...
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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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.Read more...
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.
Read more… 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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