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Black Dog Institute has recently released an insight an impact report into the National Suicide Prevention Trial, an initiative launched by the Commonwealth Department of Health in 2016.

Meet Life in Mind Champion, Samuel Hockey, Youth and lived experience researcher at the University of Sydney Brain and Mind Centre.

The Mental Health Community Coalition ACT (MHCC ACT) is the latest organisation to sign the National Communications Charter (The Charter), formally demonstrating their commitment to how the organisation will talk about mental health, wellbeing and suicide, as well as improve how these issues are responded to across the community.

View the final edition of Life in Mind eNews for 2020.

Brendan Maher from Movember has shared his insights on the National Communications Charter and what it means to be a Life in Mind Champion leading its dissemination.

Figures recently released by the Australian Institute of Family Studies as part of the Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), indicated the need for increased research in youth suicide including a focus on help-seeking and supports for young people to reduce suicide.

The University of Newcastle’s Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH) has published research on responding better to rural adversity.

Today the Prime Minister publicly released the Interim Advice documents prepared to shape Australia’s suicide prevention approach. This will enable further consultation to occur over the coming weeks to inform the Final Advice.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics have today revealed that there were 3,318 deaths by suicide in Australia in 2019. That equates to nine Australians each day, which is a significant loss to our communities, our families and our country.

SANE Australia has this week launched the findings of the National Stigma Report Card - a world-leading project designed to understand how stigma and discrimination affect people living with complex mental health issues.