National Suicide Prevention Adviser’s Final Advice
This page provides links to the Office of the Prime Minister’s National Suicide Prevention Adviser’s Final Advice.
Final Advice: Executive Summary
This document provides an overview of the three connected reports that together form the Final Advice of the National Suicide Prevention Adviser. It outlines the key areas of focus to enable a suicide prevention approach where all governments and agencies, not just health, join forces to address suicidal distress and its causes.
Compassion First: Designing our national approach from the lived experience of suicidal behaviour
This report is essential reading to contextualise the Final Advice, capturing the voices of over 3,000 people with lived experience of suicide. The clarion call is for an approach that addresses vulnerabilities long before a crisis and for a more compassionate response that connects people to the right supports.
Connected and Compassionate: Implementing a national whole of governments approach to suicide prevention
This report details eight practical and achievable recommendations and actions for driving change. Informed by lived experience, it identifies four key enablers and four key shifts that are required to build a more connected and compassionate approach that leverages the full range of services, touchpoints, policy drivers and resources available to governments.
Shifting the Focus: Supporting a comprehensive whole of governments approach to suicide prevention
This report outlines a model for operationalising a comprehensive whole of government approach to suicide prevention, including a decision-making tool to be used by government portfolios. It highlights the critical role that multiple sectors and government portfolios have in suicide prevention and provides practical guidance on the steps that can be taken
