Read & listen to helpful suicide-prevention related programs & articles
- 136 Mackay lives lost to suicide over four years
1st April 2015 - Mindframe Suicide and Mental Health Media Guidelines
Full guidelines
Quick sheet - “Youth suicide action plans needed in every school in Australia to help save lives”November 30, 2014
- “Headspace welcomes announcement of new centres” (including Mackay) 24th October 2011
- “The Life Promotion Project: An Indigenous Community Response to Suicides in Mackay”30 June 2010
- “Boomtown gone bad!”
Triple J’s Queensland Mission, Triple J Podcast - “A place to Call My Own” Mackay Youth Homelessness Report 2009
Ms Suewellyn Kelly, Community Consultant, auspiced by YIRS One Stop Youth Shop Inc. - Media Release: ‘Suicide costs community 17.5 billion’ (12/11/09)
Presented by: suicide-prevention Australia, OZHELP, Lifeline Australia, the Salvation Army, Inspire. Mental Health Council of Australia, Brain & Mind Research Institute - ‘Breaking the Silence’
A seminal report on existing knowledge on suicide & suicide-prevention in Australia - Are you a media professional?
Click here for up to date suicide media guidelines - 4 Corners Report “Hidden Voices” The story of an Australian town that holds a lesson for each & every person who’s been touched by mental illness (09/08/10)
- Australian Magazine Article, “The last taboo” (Sunday February 26-27, 2011)