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
Families, Friends & Elders
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
Stronger Together – Resources
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
Keeping Everyone Safe – English language
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
Keeping Everyone Safe – Arrernte language
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
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
Taking Care of People with Worries – English language
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