Consultation & engagement
Suicide is everybody’s business, and communities know their business best.
Suicide Prevention Queensland understands the importance of consultation and engagement for the development of targeted and effective suicide prevention strategies.
No one knows their community better than locals; working on the ground to understand the unique challenges they face is key to developing plans and actions tailored to each region’s needs.
Suicide Prevention Queensland does this through consultation with:
- those with lived experience
- residents
- local allied health professionals
- service providers
- community leaders (local members, government etc.)
Community feedback
“We live in an isolated town where we have a wide range of mental health concerns …There is not much available that is good, and what is good is booked out for months. Mental health issues need addressing now not 3 months down the track."
Leveraging, not duplicating
We understand that each community has different challenges, with different approaches needed to address them.
Suicide Prevention Queensland works with communities to ensure that we leverage existing services – not duplicate them.
We develop tailored strategies and programs and work with local stakeholders and service providers to establish mutual referral pathways to ensure the individual has access to wrap-around support to achieve the best outcomes.
The ensures that Suicide Prevention Queensland provide the right help to existing services, and fill each gap highlighted by each community.
Strengthening existing relationships
Suicide Prevention Queensland, part of the selectability group, has strong and enduring relationships with local groups across its large footprint; we are working to strengthen these relationships so we can deliver tailored services, faster.
These organisations and services are made up of friendly familiar faces, who understand the social and cultural context that underpins the needs of their community.
From allied health professionals to key local members, suicide has a wide -reaching effect on all levels of community, so it is important that those connections exist.
Our community engagement
Suicide Prevention Queensland is committed to working with community groups to deliver tailored programs to those that need it most.
Caption: As a part of our strategy, we maintained a consultation with The Townsville Pirates to ensure the ther generous donation is put back into programs that regional and remote communities need most
Community driven engagement
Suicide Prevention Queensland is committed to providing extensive support to the regional, rural and remote areas of Queensland that need it the most.
Community engagement is our priority in understanding how best to deliver our services to those who need it. We do this by working with community groups to provide on the ground support for locals at risk of suicide.
Community feedback
“All towns need this service, we are fortunate enough to have it. People with mental illness need a safe place to go. Family members need somewhere to find information to support them that’s personalised. I think this is something our community has been needing and wanting for quite some time.”
A focus on the future
Suicide is complex, but it is also preventable.
Developing strategies that take into consideration a wide range of suicide risk factors and supporting protective factors will allow us to create positive change and prevent suicide across regional Queensland.
Regional Queensland is constantly evolving, and so are local communities.
We leave room for ongoing growth in order to continuously help identify gaps and needs, so Suicide Prevention Queensland has the best opportunity to deliver projects for those at risk of suicide and reduce the repeated need for crisis response.