Manual of Resources for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention
Continuing professional development webinar for mental health and other clinicians featuring:
Marshall Watson – Noongar man and psychiatrist
Louis Peachey – Djabugay man and rural generalist
Jeff Nelson – Indigenous psychologist
Source: Mental Health Professionals Network
A collection of resources for people and agencies working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people, to help advise them about safe and appropriate online interactions. These co-designed videos and posters address topics including:
Bullying
Sexting
Respect
Source: eSafety Commissioner
Jenny Molyneux provides mental health counselling to four remote NSW communities. She talks about the importance of building trust and relationships, meeting people in their own communities, and committing to being there for the long term.
Source: Desert Pea Media/WNSWPHN
This framework supports Indigenous and non-Indigenous organisations to improve their cultural security, both for employees and for clients/patients.
While developed specifically for the Kimberley, the principles are likely to be valuable in other regions. The framework sets out performance targets under four categories:
Professional development of the workforce
The workplace environment
Care models
Systems and processes
Source: Kimberley Aboriginal Health Planning Forum
This short resource describes basic cultural competencies for clinical staff to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and their families.
Source: Queensland Government
This resource provides information to assist health staff in delivering culturally respectful and responsive health services to Aboriginal people. It includes general information relating to terminologies, customs, history and protocols, as well as locally specific information for Northern Sydney.
Source: Northern Sydney Local Health District
1.5 hour e-learning course designed to assist non-Aboriginal practitioners to develop the skills and understanding to build genuine partnerships with First Nations children, families and communities.
Source: Emerging Minds
A series of resources that adapt the Mental Health First Aid guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people, including guidelines on:
Depression
Psychosis
suicidal thoughts, behaviour and self-harm
trauma and loss
alcohol and drug use
culturally appropriate communication
Source: Mental Health First Aid
This factsheet highlights some key considerations when providing culturally secure and effective alcohol and other drug treatment for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Source: Alcohol and Other Drugs Knowledge Centre
The Healing Foundation launched Stories from community: How suicide rates fell in two Indigenous communities at the Second National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference in Perth on 21 November 18. The stories captured from the communities of Yarrabah and the Tiwi Islands demonstrate the power of community control and self-determination. The two case studies presented explore the dramatic fall in suicide rates across both communities, from the high rates they experienced in the 1990s.