Why Suicide Prevention
- Suicide is community health problem
- Thoughts of suicide are understandable, complex, and personal
- Suicde can be mostly prevented
- Help-seeking is encouraged through skills and by open, direct, and honest talk about suicide
- Intervention should be the main prevention focus
- Cooperation and compassion is the essence of intervention
- Intervention skills are known and can be learned
- Large numbers of people can be taught intervention skills
Who needs suicide prevention skills?
- Psychologists, Social Workes, Clinicians
- Teachers and others in education setting
- Community and Families
- Workplaces
- Health professionals:
- Allied health
- Peer workforce
- Other staff
- A broad range of people can help