Resource Tag: COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

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This document outlines a strategy to reduce suicide rates among American Indians & Alaska Natives living in the Pacific Northwest by increasing tribal capacity & improving collaboration. The primary goals of the plan are to: increase knowledge & awareness about suicide & in doing so take steps to address the stigma that exists in many […]

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This presentation discussed a proposal that has been made for the development of crisis intervention services in northern communities in Ontario, Canada. Special at-risk populations – suicidal adolescents, especially native adolescents – were given attention as exemplifying the need for establishing & applying crisis intervention services.

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This report summarizes an Inuit youth engagement conference. The youth discussed what they could do from a strengths-based focus to reduce suicide & meet the needs of youth in Nunavut communities. One of the main purposes of the conference was to focus on the importance of storytelling as a key part of Inuit culture. Elders […]

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The phrase “think globally, plan nationally, act locally” was borrowed from the environmental movement & used as the theme for World Suicide Prevention Day, 2008. This pamphlet seeks to: develop global awareness of suicide as a major preventable cause of premature death; describe the political leadership & policy frameworks for suicide prevention provided by national […]

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This document presents an action plan for suicide prevention & postvention in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The plan will develop broad-based county-wide support for suicide prevention; promote awareness & education that suicide is a preventable community health problem; reduce stigma; develop & implement community programs; promote community efforts to reduce access to lethal means; & improve […]

This document presents the position of Suicide Prevention Australia on suicide prevention in indigenous communities. In this statement, Suicide Prevention Australia acknowledges, supports, advocates, & seeks reform on the following: a multidisciplinary approach to indigenous suicide prevention; an indigenous suicidology; community capacity for caregiving; grief & postvention; & closing the gap between past & present […]

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This document provides the suicide prevention strategy for East Sussex in the United Kingdom. The goals and objectives for action are: to reduce suicide in high risk groups; to promote mental well-being in the wider population; to reduce the availability & lethality of suicide methods; to improve reporting of suicide behaviour in the media; to […]

125 surveys were circulated to service providers in 26 communities across Nunavut. 48 were returned & analysed for this report by the 3 Nunavut regions: Qikiqtani, Kivalliq, & Kitikmeot. The report begins with a description of the survey & the responses to it. It then attempts to contextualize the survey’s salient points within best practices […]

This document outlines recommendations for suicide prevention among Australian males. These resulted from a national forum on men & suicide in May 2006. The recommendations are directed towards all sectors of the community, not just government. The plan developed at this forum aims, in one generation, to eliminate suicide as a health risk for males.

This document outlines the Government of Lithuania’s national strategy for suicide prevention. The epidemiology of suicide in Lithuania is described as is the link between this strategy & other health programmes. The short- & long-term goals of the strategy are listed in point form.