Newsletter date: 7 October 2015
Contents:
* News Analysis: Nathan Morris, ABC Goldfields WA: Family ties the key for Kalgoorlie-Boulder's Aboriginal mental health workers
* Audio: Bridget Brennan, ABC AM: Aboriginal man helping LGBTI Indigenous people speak about suicide [featuring Dameyon Bonson]
* News Analysis: Bridget Brennan, ABC News: Mental As: Indigenous community lacks resources to prevent LGBTI suicide
* News Analysis & Video: Calla Wahlquist, The Guardian Australia: Q&A: Indigenous Australians 'must be trusted to take control of suicide prevention'
* Background:
WGAR Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities
WGAR Background: Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget
* Crisis Support - Talk to Someone - 24-hours/day 7-days/week:
Lifeline - Crisis Support and Suicide Prevention: 13 11 14 https://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/
Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467 https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/
Beyond Blue - Talk it through with us: 1300 22 4636 http://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/get-immediate-support
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- News Analysis
ABC Goldfields WA: Family ties the key for Kalgoorlie-Boulder's Aboriginal mental health workers
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-05/indigenous-family-ties-key-for-kal...
5 Oct 15: "So at 4:30 while the rest of the team goes home, our team are still part of the Aboriginal community. That's not something you can just switch off and on." Sidney Carruth, Goldfields-Esperance Aboriginal mental health co-ordinator
" ... Mr Carruth said the all-Aboriginal team members were chosen not just for their skills, but because of strong family and social connections to the community. "We had to make sure that we covered pretty much every family group within this area," he said. Forming the backbone of the mental health team in the Goldfields are Kelly Donaldson and Richard Ashwin, both from well-known families in the region." Nathan Morris
- Audio
ABC AM: Aboriginal man helping LGBTI Indigenous people speak about suicide [featuring Dameyon Bonson]
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2015/s4325713.htm
6 Oct 15: "Brendan Trembath: Aboriginal mental health advocates say there's limited funding for Indigenous-controlled mental health services, such as suicide prevention. Indigenous people are twice as likely as other Australians to take their own life. One gay Aboriginal man has been raising money for his own mental health support organisation for Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual, Transgender and Intersex people. Bridget Brennan reports. ... Broome resident Dameyon Bonson had been working in suicide prevention for several years when he noticed there was no specific service for people like him. ... " Bridget Brennan reported this story
- News Analysis
ABC News: Mental As: Indigenous community lacks resources to prevent LGBTI suicide
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-06/indigenous-community-lacks-resourc...
6 Oct 15: "Indigenous-run mental health services are struggling to attract funding for suicide prevention programs, according to Aboriginal mental health workers. Indigenous people are twice as likely as other Australians to take their own life. ... Dameyon Bonson, a mental health advocate from Broome, said the situation was getting worse for some communities. "It is devastating. There's a sense of hopelessness from a lot of people because they don't know what to do," he said. Mr Bonson started a group called Black Rainbow Living Well, when he noticed that Aboriginal gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people needed special help. ... " By Bridget Brennan. She began working for the ABC in 2010 as a cadet journalist. She has worked in the ABC’s Sydney and Darwin newsrooms in radio and television news. She graduated with a Bachelor of Communication from RMIT in Melbourne in 2007.
- News Analysis & Video
The Guardian Australia: Q&A: Indigenous Australians 'must be trusted to take control of suicide prevention'
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/oct/06/qa-indigenous-australians...
6 Oct 15: "Communities should be supported to make themselves well, expert tells audience on mental health week episode of the ABC’s panel show ... Addressing skyrocketing rates of suicide among Indigenous Australians will require governments to trust Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to take control of mental health support and suicide prevention, two senior advisers to the Australian government on mental health have said. Prof Pat Dudgeon, chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership in Mental Health group and a Bardi woman ... and Prof Ian Hickie, the co-director of the University of Sydney’s Brain and Mind Centre, both sit on the National Mental Health Commission. ... " Calla Wahlquist, a reporter for Guardian Australia, based in Perth. She covers Western Australia, with a focus on Indigenous issues and legal affairs
- Background
WGAR Background to Suicide and Self-harm in First Nations Communities
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-to-suicide-and-self-...
(last updated: 5 October 2015)
WGAR Background: Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-aboriginal-peoples-a...
(last updated: 5 October 2015)
- Crisis Support - Talk to Someone - 24-hours/day 7-days/week:
Emergency:
For immediate assistance when life may be in danger
Call 000
https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/emergency
Lifeline's 24/7 hotline
13 11 14
Crisis Support and Suicide Prevention services
https://www.lifeline.org.au/Get-Help/
Suicide Call Back Service
1300 659 467
Twenty-four hours a day seven days a week
The Suicide Call Back Service provides free nationwide professional telephone and online counselling for anyone affected by suicide.
https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/
Beyond Blue
1300 22 4636
Depression. Anxiety.
Talk it through with us, day or night
http://www.beyondblue.org.au/get-support/get-immediate-support
Useful national contact numbers - Suicide Prevention Crisis Contacts
http://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Suicide_Pr...
Mens Line
1300 78 99 78
MensLine Australia is a professional telephone and online support and information service for Australian men
http://www.mensline.org.au/
Kids Help Line
1800 55 1800
aged 5 - 25 yrs
http://www.kidshelp.com.au/
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