On the NSW North Coast everyone knows each other. And everyone seems to know someone. Someone who has lost a loved one to suicide; someone who has become acquainted with the black dog.
The initiative forms part of the Deep Listeners project, founded by Ursula, an early intervention strategy designed to ensure members of the community are"prepared, visible and accessible".
"And sure, there's professional assistance, but there's a lot of blockages in terms of logistics, or money or availability of people." "We're looking for community-based solutions rather than some of the clinical solutions that have been used in the past," Boutkan says. On the line is Tim Fisk, who survived a suicide attempt and now hosts weekly meetings for men who traditionally fail to engage with mainstream mental health services.
In schools, parents and teachers are being trained to act as gatekeepers through community-based programs like Question, Persuade, Refer , Youth Mental First Aid and safeTALK — an initiative that has been extended across the region more broadly. "Twice as many young women aged 15–19 years died by suicide in 2015 than in 2005 and rates have also increased among young people under the age of 14 years,""This has mirrored high rates of self-harm among young people. Recent reports indicate that approximately one in four young women aged 16–17 years have self-harmed in their lifetime.
"It's done in a piecemeal way and it's not linked to service access... You can't expect a lay person in the community to be able to manage someone's suicide risk necessarily. The results of the Federal Government's National Suicide Prevention Trial are not scheduled for completion until the end of the year, while the outcomes of LifeSpan — which the action plan is based on — will not be available until 2022 and 2023.
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