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The Living Is For Everyone (LIFE) website is a world-class suicide and self-harm prevention resource. Dedicated to providing the best available evidence and resources to guide activities aimed at reducing the rate at which people take their lives in Australia, the LIFE website is designed for people across the community who are involved in suicide and self-harm prevention activities.

What's New

A profile of The Yiriman Project is now online.

The report 'The Media Monitoring Project: Changes in media reporting of suicide and mental health and illness in Australia: 2000/01–2006/07' is now online. Its Executive Summary is also available.

The report 'National Suicide Prevention Strategies: A Comparison' by Graham Martin has been added to the LIFE library.

Improvements have been made to the LIFE library section pages.

2010 bereavement information and support packs relevant to every Australian state and territory are now available in the LIFE library.

Featured Project

Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health
The NSW Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health's Farm Link suicide prevention project seeks to improve the mental health and well-being of people who live and work on NSW farms.

LIFE News

LIFE News issue 8, which focuses on bereavement and suicide prevention, 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.

LIFE Framework

 

View the LIFE Framework online here.

LIFE professional development evaluation workshops
LIFE in conjunction with the Australian Psychological Society is hosting free professional development evaluation workshops around Australia in March and April 2010. These day long workshops will introduce and explain the key concepts of evaluation and leave participants with a take-home plan. Read more about them here.

Current threads on the LIFE discussions forums include 'Working with males who're bereaved by suicide,' 'The Compassionate Friends,' 'The Hope for Life Lifekeeper Memory Quilt.' Login to join the discussion or register here.

LIFE's Indigenous webpage provides statistics, policy resources and more about suicide prevention in Indigenous communities.