Lived Experience of Suicide Summit reflections

The Lived Experience of Suicide Summit 2025 offered a space for meaningful discussions, allowing participants to challenge perspectives, strengthen collaborations, and form partnerships with people with lived experience of suicide. Roses in the Ocean reflect on the Summit's impact and key moments.

New initiative to empower community suicide prevention

National Hope Week is a new health promotion initiative aimed at raising awareness of suicide prevention.

The initiative is led by Lake Macquarie and Newcastle Suicide Prevention Network (LMNSPN) in collaboration with Suicide Prevention Networks across Australia.

Preventing First Nations suicide in LGBTIQ+SB communities

The Queensland Council for LGBTI Health and 2Spirits share insights from the pilot of Yarns Heal, a suicide prevention campaign for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and LGBTIQ+ Sistergirl and Brotherboy community.

Shifting the narrative on male suicide

A workshop facilitated by the National Men’s Lived Experience Network at the Lived Experience of Suicide Summit 2025 offered participants an opportunity to connect and explore how current practices could be adapted to better support men and prevent male suicide.

Effectiveness of an opioid agonist treatment program on suicide prevention NSW

People living with opioid use disorder have almost eight times the risk of suicide-related death compared to the general population. The researchers of this paper expanded on the work of Chaillon et al. to estimate the impact of opioid antagonist treatment on the prevention of suicide in NSW.

Suicide, self-harm and online safety for young people

The researchers of this study aimed to understand views and perceived challenges of young people communicating about suicide and self-harm on social media, and what governments and social media companies can do to keep young people safe online.