Manual of Resources for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention
This is a collection of conversation guides, posters and video stories under the headline: “Ask Your Mob, In Your Way, R U OK?” Sign up with an email address and phone number to get immediate access to all the downloads, which support people to have conversations with family members, friends and others who may be struggling.
Source: RUOK
This animated short video accompanies the Little Red Threat Book, and provides advice for when someone threatens to end their life to get something they want.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
This animated short video accompanies the Little Red Threat Book, and provides advice for when someone threatens to end their life to get something they want.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
The Little Red Threat Book demonstrates how to respond when someone says they will take their own life unless another person does as they demand. It describes how such threats, which may feel manipulative or abusive, can result from trauma, including intergenerational trauma, grief, loss, and the experiences of poverty, racism and colonising policies and practices. It shows how those in a supporting role can create safe spaces without compromising their own safety or integrity.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
This animated short video provides advice about supporting someone in distress, including how to check in with them after a crisis has passed and when to consider referring them to formal services and supports.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
This animated short video provides advice about supporting someone in distress, including how to check in with them after a crisis has passed and when to consider referring them to formal services and supports.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
Krista, a mum and active community member, talks about how parents can advocate and seek help for a child who is struggling.
Source: Desert Pea Media/WNSWPHN
This short resource describes how to have a safe conversation with someone in distress.
Source: Everymind
This resource kit gives advice to families and friends about how to support someone who is struggling. It includes:
– Video stories
– Written stories
– A guide to having a conversation with someone in distress
Source: RUOK
A series of conversations about promoting social and emotional wellbeing and preventing suicides in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, recorded by Luke Pearson from Indigenous X and featuring:
Dr Jackie Huggins AM, Co-chair of the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, Birri-Gubba Juru and Bidjara woman from Queensland
Aunty Lorraine Peeters, Managing Director and Facilitator of Winangali-Marumali from the Gamilaroi and Wailwun Nations
Richard Weston, former CEO of the Healing Foundation, descendant from Meriam People of Torres Strait
Source: Everymind