This page lists resources specifically for youth workers and students.
If you are a young person who wants support (or their friend or family), see Young people & mental health.
YAPA resources
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Working with suicidal young people: article
- For a model policy on suicide to adapt for your agency's own use, see Suicide in the section on Safety, in YAPA's Model policies on working with young people, for non-residential youth services in NSW
Resources on other sites
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Living is For everyone (LIFE): This website is a world-class suicide and self-harm prevention resource managed by Crisis Support Services and funded by the Department of Health and Ageing. Dedicated to providing the best available evidence and resources to guide activities aimed at reducing the rate at which people take their lives in Australia, the LIFE website is designed for people across the community who are involved in suicide and self-harm prevention activities. www.livingisforeveryone.com.au
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Australian Institute For Suicide Research and Prevention: Australian site based out of Queensland's Griffith University. Provides quality information that is academic-based and Australian-focused. www.gu.edu.au/school/psy/aisrap
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Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners: www.rnzcgp.org.nz
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Reach Out: An Australian service that uses the Internet to help young people get through tough times. Developed in response to Australia’s high rates of youth suicide, Reach Out provides information, assistance and referrals in a format that appeals to young people. www.reachout.com.au
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Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies: www.acys.utas.edu.au
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Youth Suicide Prevention Project: As part of Australia's National Strategy, the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care has engaged the Australian Institute of Family Studies to help those working to prevent suicide by providing: a knowledge base from which to inform policy, practice and research; communications activities; & networking services www.aifs.org.au/ysp
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Suicide Prevention Initiatives: AusEinet is in part, funded from the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy. Given its function as a clearinghouse for the mental health of children and young people, the AusEinet website will be highlighting a range of Australian youth suicide prevention initiatives. http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/suiprev/index.php
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Youth Suicide and Self-Injury Australia: Injury prevention bulletin www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/bulletin15/bulletin15sup.html
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Keep Yourself Alive: Prevention of Suicide in Young People: A Manual for Health Professionals: This manual is part of a package designed to:
* provide a comprehensive introductory guide to the management of suicidal behaviours and completed suicide.
* raise the awareness of professionals with regard to the seriousness of suicidal behaviours in Australia, and to improve crisis, therapy and postvention skills for working in this challenging area.
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Suicide Prevention - Victorian Task Force Report, July 1997: The Suicide Prevention Task Force was established by the Premier and the Minister for Health in January 1997, to conduct an intensive public investigation into the nature and extent of suicide, particularly youth suicide, in Victoria. www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth/publications/suicide
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SAVE: US site containing lots of practical information on depression, suicidal behaviour and prevention. www.save.org
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Youth Suicide Prevention Website: Developed by the Canadian Red Cross — areas for youth and adults. www.youthsuicide.ca
News
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Youth counsellors fail to detect suicide signs: School counsellors and youth workers are failing to detect children at risk of suicide or ensure vulnerable youths are properly treated smh.com.au 7/11/06 Read the report kids.nsw.gov.au 11/06
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Poor twice as likely to commit suicide: Young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds are almost twice as likely to commit suicide as their more affluent peers smh.com.au 11/9/06
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One in 10 teenage girls deliberately harm themselves each year and the problem is far more widespread than previously thought smh.com.au 23/8/06
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Down by law, with the black dog: Alan Mascarenhas writes of the tragedy of a friend, a young lawyer who took his own life. smh.com.au 7/9/06
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2:37 opens with R rating:
* A sad history of life — and death — imitating art: New Australian film 2:37 is about high school students, but we should be thankful high school students won't see it. theage.com.au 20/8/06
* Choose life: 22-year-old writer-director Murali K. Thalluri received a video suicide note from a friend two days after her death. smh.com.au 11/8/06
* When reality becomes reel: Murali Thalluri wrote "2:37" after a suicide attempt at 19. It centres on 6 students dealing with difficult issues during a day at school. smh.com.au 19/5/06 -
Suicides not Goth related: inquest: The suicides of a man and his teenage girlfriend were not part of a satanic ritual linked to Goth culture, but arose from everyday problems. An inquest into their death today made recommendations to the NSW Police, the Department of Community Services and the Education Department about the reporting and handling of cases of missing young people. smh.com.au 8/8/06
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Teenage wasteland: Breaking the silence around youth suicide is a fraught, but vital, process. smh.com.au 13/5/06
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Comic book bid to curb teen self-harm: Efforts stepped up to curb prevalence of self-harm among teenagers as two new State Government-funded programs launched. smh.com.au 23/4/06
