Manual of Resources for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention

Author name: Manual of Resources

Be You Suicide Prevention Toolkit

Clinicians & Front Line Workers, Communities, PHNs & Funding Organisations / By

The toolkit was intended for use to support suicide prevention and postvention responses in schools. It includes fact sheets to help teachers respond to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, that may also be valuable to other service providers:

Grief: how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people might respond to suicide
Remembering a young person: memorials and important events in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
Suicide in schools: information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
Self-care for school staff working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people in remote areas
Suicide contagion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
Source: beyondblue

Deliberate Self Harm and Suicidal Behaviour

Clinicians & Front Line Workers, Communities, PHNs & Funding Organisations / By

This clinical protocol aims to reduce deliberate self-harm and suicidal behaviour by ensuring that people at risk are able to access consistent levels of support across the Kimberley, including:

Appropriate screening and assessment
Effective follow-up and safety planning.
The protocol recognises the role in suicide and self-harm of historical and current trauma, grief and loss, racism, child abuse and neglect, cultural breakdown, family and domestic violence, homelessness, poverty and sexual assault.

It provides additional guidance on drug or alcohol dependence, acknowledging the complexities of supporting Indigenous people who experience these issues after an episode of self-harm.

Source: Kimberley Aboriginal Health Planning Forum

AIMhi Stay Strong

Clinicians & Front Line Workers / By

This app is designed to be used by service providers and clients in a client session. It is available in iOS and Android versions and facilitates discussion about:

Friends and family who help keep clients strong and healthy
Personal strengths relating to spiritual and cultural, physical, family, social and work, and mental and emotional aspects of clients’ lives – represented visually as leaves on a tree
Aspects of clients’ lives that take away their strength in the same four areas
Setting client-driven goals for change to work on
Plans for achieving their goals and steps towards goals
It includes screening based on K5 and K10 scales and help-seeking prompts for people who score high levels of psychological distress.

A youth version of the AIMhi app, AIMhi-y, is under development but not yet available for download. It is funded by Northern Territory PHN as part of the National Suicide Prevention Trial.
Source: Menzies School of Health Research

WellMob

Clinicians & Front Line Workers, PHNs & Funding Organisations / By

“An online collection of resources to support the work of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander frontline health and wellbeing workforces, including:

community health and wellbeing workers
mental health workers
family support
education and youth services.
The resources focus on social and emotional wellbeing, access to culture, healing and safety planning.”

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