Sector update

The Rural Adversity Mental Health Program (RAMHP) provides a suite of resources that shares lived experience stories of overcoming mental health struggles to live a healthy and happy life.

headspace has launched a suite of resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people to empower them to take charge of their social and emotional wellbeing.

R U OK? has recently launched the 'I ask my mob, in my way, are you OK?' kit as part of the targeted suicide prevention campaign for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, ‘Stronger Together’.

The Black Dog Institute has established a network aiming to connect those working in suicide prevention to each other and to evidence-based resources and research.

It is hoped that encouraging more workplaces to facilitate these conversations will help to reduce stigma and ultimately prevent deaths by suicide.

A new telephone call-back service will support people with lived experience of suicide by connecting them to others with a similar lived experience.

The National Ambulance Surveillance System is an innovation that will provide a more complete picture of suicidal and intentional self-harm behaviours in Australia.

A new toolkit is available to support business managers in the event of a public death by suicide at a site they are responsible for.

The Life in Mind team spoke with Professor Pat Dudgeon, Director of the Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention at the School of Indigenous Studies at the University of Western Australia, about the role of the Manual of Resources in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention.

CEO, Fiona Cornforth announces the release of the Make Healing Happen: It’s time to act report during recent National Press Club address.