Melissa Sweet - Croakey - the Crikey health blog

WGAR News: World Suicide Prevention Day and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 12/09/2013 - 2:26pm

Newsletter date: 15 September 2013

Contents:

* Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: How can Croakey readers contribute to efforts to prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides?
* NACCHO Aboriginal Health news: Today is World Suicide Prevention Day
* CAAMA Radio: World Suicide Prevention Day...
* NACCHO RU OK News: Indigenous youth leading the way in suicide prevention
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Hopelessness in suicide riddled communities
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

Geography:

Australia

Northern Territory

WGAR News: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and TSI Health Workers: Croakey

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 12/09/2013 - 12:32pm

Newsletter date: 14 September 2013

Contents:

* Larissa Nicholson, The Canberra Times: Canberra health service leaves scarcely room to protest

* Belinda Mason, The Guardian: Unfinished Business: portraying disability in Indigenous Australia [Photographic Essay]

* Melissa Sweet, Croakey - the Crikey health blog: A call for better support and wider use of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers [Closing the Gap]
* Amy McQuire, Tracker: Indigenous health: "We can’t stop now" [Closing the Gap]

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