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Last month more than 100 health professionals, community members and organisations were joined by Professor Ed Coffey and Sue Murray at a Towards Zero Suicide event at the Mater Hospital in Newcastle.

Life in Mind is pleased to support the 2019 R U OK? Day theme ‘Trust the Signs’, which was launched today in Gosford.

Life in Mind welcomes the news, which was released today that Christine Morgan, CEO of the National Mental Health Commission will be taking on the role of National Suicide Prevention AdvisEr to the Prime Minister’s Department.

In 2017, Life in Mind was funded to redevelop and operationalise the National Communications Charter (The Charter) as part the Government’s new suicide prevention reform investment.

Today there will be no shows, no announcers, no news, no traffic reports and no advertisements across the airwaves of Triple M stations in Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne as part of a national campaign to give space for Australians to start conversations about suicide for #NoTalkDay.

In partnership Country Health SA Primary Health Network and Country Health SA Local Health Network (LHN) have released an integrated Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Plan, highlighting their commitment to work together to identify service gaps.

On 15 June 2019, The Hon. Greg Hunt MP, Minister for Health announced four new grants for projects that will be funded under the Suicide Prevention Research fund.

Today Lifeline Australia is launching the Holding on to Hope podcast series to challenge the stigma of suicide by empowering people with lived experience to share their personal stories of hope and resilience.

Minister for Health, Greg Hunt, hosted a Government-led roundtable this week to review investment to date in mental health and suicide prevention, to hear from the sector on current gaps and priorities, to understand what is and is not working, and to advise on the upcoming national forum on youth mental health and suicide prevention.

The South Australian Suicide Prevention Network of Networks Forum is an annual, state-wide event bringing together Suicide Prevention Networks (SPNs) and key representatives from the suicide prevention sector to showcase the achievements and actions of SPNs in South Australia.