Regional Approach to Suicide Prevention – 2019
Regional Approach to Suicide Prevention – 2019
Information/Booklet
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Services – 2019
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Services – 2019
An evidence-based systems approach to suicide prevention: guidance on planning, commissioning and monitoring – 2016
An evidence-based systems approach to suicide prevention: guidance on planning, commissioning and monitoring – 2016
National Guidance: Initial Assessment and Referral for Mental Healthcare – Updated 2021
National Guidance: Initial Assessment and Referral for Mental Healthcare – Updated 2021
Primary Health Networks (PHNs) and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) – Guiding Principles – 2016
Primary Health Networks (PHNs) and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) – Guiding Principles – 2016
Sad news, sorry business
These guidelines were developed for health workers caring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through death and dying. They are not specifically about suicide but include sections on sudden death and coronial investigations, and general explanation and advice to support culturally-responsive care of a dying person and their family.
Source: Queensland Health
Be You Suicide Prevention Toolkit
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
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
Defining and addressing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander trauma, grief and postvention
Literature review on culturally appropriate trauma responses
Source: Thirrili
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and Mental Ill Health
Evidence-based practice resource which links approaches to engagement and support with a discussion of the evidence for them.
Source: Orygen Youth Health