SEMPHN commissions the following activities as part of the Place-based Trials:
Roses in the Ocean delivers workshops for people with lived experience of suicide. These workshops support people to share their stories, inform their communities about the impact of suicide, and educate others about suicide prevention. In addition, Roses in the Ocean works with the South Sudanese Community in Greater Dandenong through TouchPoints workshops to build capacity skills in suicide awareness and response and has developed a series of videos in response to the challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Spectrum Personality Disorder Service for Victoria enhances the capacity of health professionals to support patients diagnosed, or likely to be diagnosed, with Borderline Personality Disorder, who are at risk of suicide. The initiative has provided training for general practitioners and allied health practitioners and support for families and carers.
St Kilda Football Club, in partnership with the
THRIVE Collective, implements the THRIVE pilot program. THRIVE is a holistic, evidence-based model using the principles of positive psychology to support young people to develop positive mental health and wellbeing. The program enables 10 sport and recreation centres in Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula to use this model to create health promoting environments, disseminate wellbeing resources and implement training in suicide prevention and mental wellbeing.
Better Place Australia in partnership with Southern Migrant Refugee Centre delivers the Refugee, People Seeking Asylum and CALD community Suicide Prevention Capacity Building Initiative across Greater Dandenong, Casey and Cardinia. These areas are home to a diverse range of new and emerging communities, with almost half of all young people born overseas, including refugees and people seeking asylum communities. This initiative designs and implements a local, community-based approach to suicide prevention, mental health and wellbeing, as well as increasing access to mental health services for CALD, refugee and people seeking asylum communities. It has a focus on expanding previous work and maintaining local activities long-term.
SEMPHN has been listening, learning and working with leaders from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities to reduce the number of suicides among groups and individuals with a higher risk of suicidality.
Multiple initiatives have been undertaken to build capacity across the service system and in local communities. A range of initiatives in the Southern Melbourne Area include:
A range of initiatives across Frankston-Mornington Peninsula include:
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