Perth Metropolitan
Suicide Prevention Update
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The Perth Metropolitan Suicide Prevention Coordinators assist in the delivery of the Mental Health Commissions’ Suicide Prevention 2025 Framework. Our role is to build community capacity to prevent and respond to suicide through awareness, education & training, partnerships and events. We work with community groups, organisations and interagency networks to build safety and support.
The Perth Metropolitan Suicide Prevention Coordinators do not provide a crisis services or interventions for consumers.
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Safer Internet Day Awareness Campaign
On February 7th SPC got involved in Safer Internet Day to promote some of the best-practice internet safety tools.
SPC shared a Suicide Prevention/Postvention poster to stakeholder networks, which included links to key #chatsafe guidelines, eSafety tools and Mindframe training and resources.
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Community Engagement Forum
On 9 February the Community Engagement Forum was hosted by Alana (Neami’s Community Engagement Officer) with support of SPC. There were 65 attendees from various community organisations across the mental health, youth, local government, AOD, first responder and community development space.
Alana was joined by Kathy from WAAMH to share their experiences working in community engagement, followed by some interactive Q&A and sharing of experiences from the attendees.
Romy Pritchard shared insights on navigating difficult conversations and self care in community engagement, with the aim of reducing siloing and building relationships.
It was a great day of learning and networking.
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Networking
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Kathy and Alana sharing their experiences
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Romy Pritchard presenting
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Youth planning meeting for RBY Launch Party
With the completion of the Right By You Website, SPC held a launch party planning workshop with some of the young stakeholders on January 30th.
Right By You is a youth peer-to-peer suicide prevention website designed by and for young people to access helpful information that would give them the skills and confidence to respond to and help a friend in need. By promoting Australia’s leading best-practice evidence-based youth suicide prevention resources within one accessible platform, the website aims to build young people’s confidence in identifying warning signs, initiating important conversations, and referring friends to help.
The resource will be launched in April (Youth Week) 2023 and be shared through online youth platforms, social media, and QR code stickers distributed through participating schools and youth agencies across Australia.
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More events and initiatives
- SPC went down to Wellington Square to cheer on the young players taking part in the Strong Spirit Strong Mind Basketball carnival. The players did amazing given it was a warm day. Well done to Derbal Yerrigan for putting on such a good event.
- Transition from primary school to high school is quite daunting - SPC supported 12 Buckets to run two activities for those moving from Primary School to High School to allow participants to meet new people and form friendships. The activities also had mental health and resilience activities on the day.
- 18 participants from a number of different agencies took part in a Mental Health First Aid Training in Mirrabooka. The participants were from agencies working with families in the Communities for Children project.
- Pharmacy 777 Nollamara delivered Art Therapy workshops during the school holidays focused on coping skills and resilience. Families also received support packs.
- The Perth Suicide Prevention Coordinators and Lead School Psychologists (LSP) have collaborated to offer time effective workshops to support wellbeing in school communities. 7 schools achieved the training in Term 1 across the South Metro region.
- Conversations about Suicide was delivered to staff at UWA Trinity College to enhance their confidence in talking about Suicide and seeing warning signs amongst students and staff.
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SPC attended Derbarl Yerrigan Youth Basketball tournament on January 23rd
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The Right By You Launch Party will happening on Youth Week Tuesday April 18th 4-6pm at the Perth City Farm.
More details and registration link coming out soon.
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Have your say about the SPC Program
If you have a spare second for a quick survey about the SPC program, please complete SPC Partnerships Feedback survey.
Visit the Suicide Prevention Coordaintor website
To find essential Info about services and resources designed for referrals, consumers and carers.
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