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Beyond Urgent: National LGBTIQ+ Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Strategy

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has today released a report on The health impact of suicide and self-inflicted injuries in Australia, 2019.

With an increased focus on including the voice of lived experience within all suicide prevention service design, delivery, policy writing and research, the Life in Mind team reached out to Champion, Bronwen Edwards on where she believes Australia is heading in terms of suicide prevention efforts, and why Roses in the Ocean is a firm supporter of the National Communications Charter.

Eastern Health has demonstrated its leadership and commitment to safe communication around mental health and suicide, as the first Victorian tertiary mental health service to sign the National Communications Charter.

Throughout the week of 29 September, three Government reports on Defence and Veteran suicide were released. The Life in Mind team summarised them here.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released their latest Causes of Death data for 2020, including official suicide data for Australia, and associated risk factors.

Corporate Mental Health Alliance Australia has recently signed the National Communications Charter, signifying their commitment to using safe, inclusive language when discussing mental health and suicide prevention in the workplace.

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The new data release from the AIHW National Suicide and Self-harm Monitoring System includes high level findings from the ambulance surveillance system, the new socioeconomic risk modelling project and updates from the recent ABS causes of death data.

Stride’s Safe Spaces allow people in suicidal distress to access trained mental health professionals within their own community, outside of a clinical setting.