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Hunter New England and Central Coast Primary Health Network (HNECC PHN) pitch night for community suicide prevention congratulates winners.

Australian Federal and State and Territory governments have released the 2024-25 budgets for funding towards the health sector, including the mental health and suicide prevention sector.

New data has been released by AIHW on suicide deaths among people receiving income support payments from Centrelink.

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Illawarra Shoalhaven Suicide Prevention Collaborative (the Collaborative) have led development of a new suicide prevention learning program to target the gap in education on person-centred care for people who access services for mental health and alcohol and drug use.

Defence, veteran and first responder families can be faced with unique experiences that can impact on the health and wellbeing of all family members including children. A range of free resources have been developed through the Child and Family Resilience Programs to proactively support the mental health of service families.

The report provides an in-depth analysis of the health and wellbeing of over 20,000 LGBTQA+ Australians. The report also highlights the need for future research to understand the mental health challenges faced by those belonging to multiple minority or disadvantaged groups within the LGBTQA+ community.

Researchers across Australia are conducting studies to examine the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on suicide. The Life in Mind portal houses suicide-related research to keep audiences up to date with the most recent information.

In this article, Dr Alan Woodward, Head of Policy at Lifeline International shares his perspective on the importance of inclusion of crisis support in suicide prevention services globally.

Everymind is pleased to announce the National communications charter (the Charter) and supporting tools and resources have been updated and are now available on the Life in Mind portal.