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eNews September 2024
Welcome to the latest edition of Life in Mind eNews, featuring news from the suicide prevention and mental health sectors, as well as some of the latest published research in suicide prevention.
If you would like to share suicide prevention news, current initiatives or published research, please email lifeinmind@health.nsw.gov.au
Sector news
Consultation open for draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention StrategyThe National Suicide Prevention Office (NSPO) has released the draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy for public consultation. Feedback received will inform advice to Government from the NSPO on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy. Consultation closes midnight Sunday, 27 October 2024. |
New suicide prevention training videosThe Queensland Centre for Mental Health Learning has released a suite of educational videos to improve knowledge and skills of suicide and suicide prevention. The videos were designed for Queensland Hospital and Health Services staff but are open to anyone looking to improve their suicide prevention knowledge and skills. |
Book release: Profiles in HopeFifteen Australians tell their stories of surviving suicide and finding the way back to a better life in a new book by John Brogden AM, Profiles in Hope. |
Fitzroy Crossing needs assessment report releasedA new report has been published sharing the outcomes of a needs assessment conducted in response to the unprecedented flooding that impacted remote town, Fitzroy Crossing and surrounding communities in January 2023. |
Recent releases
Research news
The Lancet series calls for global approach to suicide prevention
A series of new research papers published in The Lancet Public Health highlights the importance of addressing social factors as an upstream approach to suicide prevention.
The series, ‘A public health approach to suicide prevention’, presents the need to shift our understanding of suicide as a mental health issue, and understand the impact of social factors on suicide, such as poverty, debt, addictions, homelessness, abuse, discrimination and social isolation.
Translated research studies
A translation of suicide prevention research on the Life in Mind portal
Suicide and self-harm thinking in males in early parenthoodResearchers undertook a systematic review and meta-analysis by reviewing literature regarding men in perinatal, post-natal and early parenting stages. The researchers aimed to identify the prevalence of suicidal thinking in males during early parenthood, and understand factors associated with suicidal and self-harm ideation in fathers during the same period. |
Government-funded suicide prevention in AustraliaAustralia’s National Suicide Prevention Office (NSPO) commissioned the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Mental Health to conduct a scan of the government-led suicide prevention system in Australia to inform the development of a framework for a new national suicide prevention strategy.
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