Manual of Resources for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention

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Best Practice Screening & Assessment

CBPATSISP Tools & Checklists

This link takes you to listings of clinical tools and checklists on the main CBPATSISP website, with separate sections for:
– Social and emotional wellbeing assessment
– Mental health outcome measures
– Stress and trauma assessment
– Youth Assessment
– Suicide risk assessment
– Perinatal mental health assessment

Krurungal Community Pathway Connector Program – with Gold Coast PHN

Krurungal Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Corporation, is a small community-controlled organisation focused on emergency relief, education, cultural safety training and connecting people to services to meet their needs, in the Gold Coast community. Krurungal is highly respected and deeply connected in the local Gold Coast community, and because of this and the diversity of its programs it is often contacted by people and families whose issues do not fall neatly within a single program category

Feeling Deadly, Working Deadly

This toolkit, designed to support the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander alcohol and other drugs workforce, may also be valuable for mainstream workers supporting Indigenous clients with AOD and social and emotional wellbeing issues. It addresses issues including:

Heavy work demands
Defining roles and boundaries
Role stigmatisation
Translating mainstream work practices to ensure they are culturally sensitive
A lack of cultural understanding and support
Geographical isolation.
The toolkit comprises workbooks, case studies and a discussion guide as well a collection of fact sheets for supervisors to support their teams:

The complex personal lives of Indigenous AOD workers

Indigenous ways of working

Rewarding workers

Mentoring

Recruiting and retaining workers

Clinical supervision

Developing teams.

And fact sheets for workers to prevent stress and burnout:

Worker wellbeing – A Guide For Workers

Mentoring – A Guide For Workers

Clinical Supervision – A Guide For Workers

Goal setting – A Guide For Workers.

Source: NCETA

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