Keeping Everyone Safe – English language
This animated short video accompanies the Little Red Threat Book, and provides advice for when someone threatens to end their life to get something they want.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
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Keeping Everyone Safe – Arrernte language
This animated short video accompanies the Little Red Threat Book, and provides advice for when someone threatens to end their life to get something they want.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
The Little Red Threat Book
The Little Red Threat Book demonstrates how to respond when someone says they will take their own life unless another person does as they demand. It describes how such threats, which may feel manipulative or abusive, can result from trauma, including intergenerational trauma, grief, loss, and the experiences of poverty, racism and colonising policies and practices. It shows how those in a supporting role can create safe spaces without compromising their own safety or integrity.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
Taking Care of People with Worries – English language
This animated short video provides advice about supporting someone in distress, including how to check in with them after a crisis has passed and when to consider referring them to formal services and supports.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
Taking Care of People with Worries – Arrernte language
This animated short video provides advice about supporting someone in distress, including how to check in with them after a crisis has passed and when to consider referring them to formal services and supports.
Source: Central Australia Life Promotion Network
That Extra Support
Krista, a mum and active community member, talks about how parents can advocate and seek help for a child who is struggling.
Source: Desert Pea Media/WNSWPHN
Yarning if someone is thinking about suicide
This short resource describes how to have a safe conversation with someone in distress.
Source: Everymind
Stronger Together
This resource kit gives advice to families and friends about how to support someone who is struggling. It includes:
– Video stories
– Written stories
– A guide to having a conversation with someone in distress
Source: RUOK
Yarning about suicide prevention in our community
This short resource gives advice about how to start an inclusive conversation in a community about preventing suicide.
Source: Everymind
iBobbly
iBobbly is a social and emotional wellbeing self-help app for young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 15 years and over. Using iBobbly for six weeks has been shown to reduce depression, distress and suicidal thinking. Based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, and co-designed with young people in the Kimberley, the app helps people to recognise troubling thoughts and responses, and apply more positive thinking and behaviours.
Source: Black Dog Institute