Resources
This section includes a collection of suicide prevention resources for people in the suicide prevention sector, as well as those working in mental health, government, business and community groups.
Resources listed are accessed at the user's discretion and are not endorsed by Life in Mind. Read the Life in Mind disclaimer.
Champions of Inclusion: A Guide to Creating LGBTI Inclusive Organisations
Champions of Inclusion: A Guide to Creating LGBTI Inclusive Organisations provides a framework for organisations wishing to instigate a LGBTI Champions project across a diverse range of workplaces and groups, including mental health and suicide prevention services and organisations.
Conversations Matter: Community Resources
Conversations Matter: How to use the community resources
While communities want to be involved and talk about suicide, it can be challenging. Conversations Matter community online resources provide practical information for communities to guide conversations about suicide. They focus on tips for handling safe, helpful and informed conversations about suicide.
Conversations Matter: Group discussions and suicide prevention
This particular resource provides a basic summary of issues to consider when talking broadly about the issue of suicide and suicide prevention in a group setting - including educational settings, workplaces and communities.
Conversations Matter: when someone is thinking about suicide
This resource will give you basic tips to help you talk to someone you are worried may be thinking about suicide. These can be difficult conversations that get easier with training and practice. It is recommended that you seek out further training and support.
Conversations Matter: when communities are affected by suicide
This resource may assist with community conversations following a suicide. This resource will be helpful for members of the community who may be involved in planning communication or advising others.
Conversations Matter: to those bereaved by suicide
This resource provides some basic tips for talking to someone who may have lost a family member, friend or colleague to suicide.
Conversations Matter: when telling a child about a suicide
This resource provides some basic tips for telling a child about a suicide. The resource is designed specifically for parents or primary care-givers, though the information may be useful for other adults.
Conversations Matter: Professional resources
Core principles: Prevention-focused conversations
This is a fact sheet that provides advice on appropriate prevention-focused conversations surrounding suicide and the core factors to consider.
Core principles: Intervention-focused conversations
This is a fact sheet that provides advice on appropriate intervention-focused conversations surrounding suicide and the core factors to consider.
Core principles: Postvention-focused conversations
This is a fact sheet that provides advice on appropriate postvention-focused conversations surrounding suicide and the core factors to consider.
Supporting CALD communities to talk about suicide
This resource provides some practical tips for professionals engaging and supporting culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities to talk about suicide. The following information is intended to supplement the existing ‘Conversations Matter’ resources and has been designed for people working in professional or leadership roles with communities in a range of settings.
This resource, supported by NSW Mental Health Commission, was produced by Everymind, in partnership with the Transcultural Mental Health Centre and in consultation with CALD community members and professionals.
Fact sheet: Yarning about suicide prevention in our community
This fact sheet offers guidance for health professionals to talk about suicide prevention in Aboriginal communities in NSW.
Fact sheet: Yarning after a suicide
This fact sheet offers guidance for health professionals to have conversations with Aboriginal communities in NSW after a suicide death.
Fact sheet: Yarning if someone is thinking about suicide
This fact sheet offers guidance for health professionals to have conversations with Aboriginal communities in NSW about what to do when someone is thinking about suicide.
Coping with self-harm: a guide for parents and carers
As many as 10% of young Australians will self-harm at some point in their lives but parents and carers often feel alone when they discover that a loved one is intentionally hurting themselves.
This guide was co-developed by parents and carers of young people, as well as young people themselves.
It is aimed at helping parents, carers, family members and friends cope when a young person is self-harming.
It includes information on the nature and causes of self-harm, how to support a young person when facing this problem and what help is available.
Exploration & Design: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide crisis support and aftercare workshop
This report summarises the findings of a workshop co-hosted by the Black Dog Institute and Country South Australia Primary Health Network. The session focused on suicidal crisis and follow-up care in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, bringing professional and cultural expertise together to explore culturally appropriate suicide prevention strategies and interventions.
Factsheet: Finding help if you’re suicidal
This factsheet contains practical advice for people experiencing suicidal ideation in the form of specific, concrete actions they can perform to make themselves safe and seek help.
The information covers both imminent risk of attempted suicide and suicidal ideation in general and is appropriate for people experiencing suicidal ideation and families, friends and carers of at-risk people.
Advice includes:
• What to do if you feel immediately suicidal
• What to do in a crisis
• What next (once the immediate risk has passed)
• Lists of crisis numbers and advice services
Factsheet: How to help when someone is suicidal
This factsheet contains practical advice for people experiencing suicidal ideation in the form of specific, concrete actions they can perform to make themselves safe and seek help.
The information covers both imminent risk of attempted suicide and suicidal ideation in general and is appropriate for people experiencing suicidal ideation and families, friends and carers of at-risk people.
Advice includes:
• What to do if you feel immediately suicidal
• What to do in a crisis
• What next (once the immediate risk has passed)
• Lists of crisis numbers and advice services
Factsheet: self-harm
This factsheet contains information about self-harm to help understand, contextualise and prevent self-harming behaviour.
Factsheet: suicidal behaviour
This factsheet contains information about suicidal behaviour to help understand, contextualise and prevent self-harming behaviour.
Factsheets & Resources
Is pregnancy or early parenthood making you sad or anxious?
A brief overview of anxiety & depression in early parenthood & pregnancy, contributing factors, signs and symptoms, treatments available, how PANDA can help.
Perinatal Anxiety & Depression in Men
Description of signs and symptoms of perinatal anxiety and depression, how to get help, who you can talk to, tips for self-care.
LGBTIQ Families and Perinatal Anxiety & Depression
Risk factors for perinatal anxiety & depression in LGBTIQ families, how to get help for yourself or someone close to you, and a personal story.
Anxiety & Depression in Pregnancy & Early Parenthood
Signs and symptoms of antenatal and postnatal anxiety & depression, postpartum psychosis; contributing factors to perinatal anxiety and depression, and how to get help for yourself or someone close to you.
Translated Factsheets: Anxiety & Depression In Pregnancy & Early Parenthood
Anxiety & Depression In Pregnancy & Early Parenthood in the following languages:
Chinese 中国
Vietnamese tiếng Việt
Urdu اردو
Somali اف سومالى
Arabic العربية