LifeConnect – Suicide Prevention and Support After Suicide, delivered by Neami National: Support is provided through suicide prevention programs.
Suicide prevention activities include:
- Community activities that focus on wellbeing, resilience, skills development, and help-seeking
- Media communications to promote help-seeking and reduce stigma related to mental health and suicide
- Community capacity building and training
- Development of processes with hospitals and other health services to help people get the support they need
- Workforce training, to skill a range of workers in identifying and managing suicide risk.
For enquiries about LifeConnect or to make a referral, please contact them on: P: 1300 052 590 or see here
Mental Health Stepped Care Services – Quick Response Suicide Prevention Support, delivered by EMPHN’s mental health stepped care providers: Provision of support for people struggling to manage suicidal thoughts and feelings. Please note that this service is for non-immediate/lower urgency situations.
If you are in an emergency, or at immediate risk of harm to yourself or others, please contact emergency services on 000.
Support services that operate 24 hours/7 days a week:
- Lifeline: 13 11 14 www.lifeline.org.au
- Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467 www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au
- Beyond Blue Support Service: 1300 22 4636 www.beyondblue.org.au
- MensLine Australia: 1300 78 99 78 www.mensline.org.au
- Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 www.kidshelpline.com.au
EMPHN Mental Health SupportConnect team
- Email: supportconnect@emphn.org.au
- Phone: (03) 9800 1071
- Fax: (03) 8677 9510