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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.
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).
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.
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 Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project uses community radio networks around Australia to build a greater understanding of issues surrounding mental health and suicide prevention.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The Mental Health First Aid Training and Research Program conducts research and training courses that aspire to increase Australians’ understanding of mental health.
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
The LifeForce suicide prevention project is a national suicide prevention program that aims to educate, empower and resource Australian communities.
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.
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.
CAN - Community Connections emphasises the value of consumer led service delivery no matter what the consumer's mental health problem(s) may be.
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.
Community Connections supports older men in Queensland rural areas who are at high risk of suicide. The program is coordinated through inter-agency referrals.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.

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Jonathan Nicholas, CEO of Inspire Foundation, says:

“Our research shows that up to 20% of users of ReachOut.com are health care professionals using ReachOut.com to support a young person in their care. Reach Out Pro was developed to better support these professionals. It is based on research that shows many health care professionals are hesitant about using technology as part of the care of young people and may not be aware on how it can enhance care. Through Pro, mental health professionals are able to reach out to young people, step into their world and use technology to help young people overcome their difficulties.”

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. Reach Out Pro also provides practical ideas about how to integrate technology into their practice to better meet the needs of young people and ultimately improve mental health and suicide prevention outcomes.

The project is closely linked to ReachOut.com to help provide young people with access to an online community as welll as providing trusted information and advice targeted specifically towards people between ages 14 and 25. This project is managed by Inspire Foundation.

Aims

To teach health care professionals about new technologies and what they mean to young people.
To provide answers to questions such as “what is social networking?” and “why is it so important for healthcare professionals to know about it?”
To allow quick access to resources and information for young people in treatment.
To provide easy instructions based on clinician experience on how to incorporate technology into the health care provider's (HCP’s) practice.
To offer advice on how HCPs can make clinical practice more efficient using technology.

Background

Reach Out Pro was launched in April 2009.

Location

Reach Out Pro is web-based and can be accessed online at www.reachoutpro.com.au.

Model

The Reach Out Pro project is based on and is an integral part of the Inspire Foundation's Strategic Plan 2008-2012.

Activities

Researching and developing new resources for Reach Out Pro in collaboration with a key group of health care professionals and young people.
Providing onsite training to health care professionals in using technologies in their practice with young people.
Forming alliances and working relationships with key partners to ensure we are providing a reliable and evidence-based service.

Resources
All resources for this project are available on the Reach Out Pro website.

Evaluation

An external evaluation of the Reach Out Pro project is currently being undertaken by the Brain and Mind Research Institute, University of Sydney. Findings from this evaluation will be available in December 2009.

Lessons learned

Through ongoing research and evaluation of the Reach Out Pro website, key findings have determined the direction of the project.
There is a significant challenge in promoting the integration of technologies into everyday practice by HCPs, where the evidence is still emerging.

Project partners

Reach Out Pro has been developed by the Inspire Foundation with the support of the Brain and Mind Research Institute, Orygen Youth Health and headspace, Central Coast. Reach Out Pro is funded by the Department of Health and Ageing.

More information

For more information please contact Nadine Finlay, Reach Out Pro Project Manager via email or call +61 2 8585 9337.

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