Manual of Resources for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention

PHNs & Funding Organisations

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

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.”

Using Aboriginal cultural knowledge systems to strengthen families’ resilience

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

One hour e-learning course for practitioners who work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, families and communities. It has been developed with the support and guidance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, to develop the knowledge and skills required to support families’ resilience.

Source: Emerging Minds

Journey Home

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

Video discussion of how to support the social and emotional wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people involved in the criminal justice system, based on the Journey Home program from Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) in South Australia, featuring:

– Jamie Sorby – Kamileroi woman, Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing worker

– Sharmaine Williams – Bidjara Gunggari woman, Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing worker

– Curtis Falla – Kaurna Narungga man, Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing worker

– Marshall Watson – Noongar man, Child and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist

Source: Orygen Youth Health

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