Strengthening Our Spirits – Principles and Components
This fact sheet describes a community-wide resilience model, developed in the Northern Territory through the National Suicide Prevention Trial.
Source: Northern Territory PHN
Information/Booklet
The Coroner’s Court and the Koori community
Short resource describing the role of the coroner, including after a suicide. The resource covers identification, autopsy, funeral planning, death certification and Aboriginal family liaison. While it relates to Victoria, most content is general in nature and relevant in other states.
Source: Coroner’s Court Victoria
What do we tell the children when someone dies?
Short resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, not specific to suicide deaths.
Source: Aboriginal Drug and Alcohol Council (South Australia)
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.
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
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