Grieving the Aboriginal Way
Short resource about the ways Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may grieve after a suicide or other sudden death. This resource also includes help-seeking for people at risk of suicide while they are grieving.
Communities
Healing Our Way After a Suicide
Short text and pictorial resource about feelings and adjustment after losing someone to suicide.
Source: Yarrabah Council and community (North Queensland)
When someone takes their own life, What Next?
A resource for people who have lost someone to suicide, covering practical and financial issues and well as psychological adjustment, and inclusive of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Source: WA Mental Health Commission
Suicide in schools: information for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families
This fact sheet gives advice to families when there has been a suicide at school, including how their child might react, how to support them and how to seek help for individuals and communities.
Source: headspace
Indigenous Parents and Carers: How might trauma, loss and grief affect your bub?
This resources describes how grief, loss and intergenerational trauma can affect children, and gives advice to families about how to respond.
Source: Trauma & Grief Network
Coping with sorrow, loss and grief
his resource describes how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people may experience sorry business, grief and loss, and the types of support that may help.
Source: Lifeline
Yarning After a Suicide
This short resource gives advice to families, friends and community leaders about how to support someone who has been bereaved by suicide.
Source: Everymind
How does the past have anything to do with now?
This resources describes how past traumas can have a lasting effect on the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including new generations.
Source: Trauma & Grief Network
Dear Son
Dear Son shares letters written by Indigenous men about life, masculinity, love, culture and racism. Along with his own prose and poetry, author and editor Thomas Mayor invited 12 contributors, including Joe Williams, Stan Grant and Troy Cassar-Daley, to write a letter to their son, father or nephew, in a book that celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander manhood.
Source: Hardie Grant Publishing
Language and Culture
This Powerpoint presentation describes the roles of language and culture in the social and emotional wellbeing of people in the East Kimberley. From a 2019 Empowered Communities workshop.
Source: Binarri Binyja Yarrawoo