Preventing suicide for CALD community members
Do you need help supporting a person who has suicidal thoughts or behaviours?
How to help
You can help your community prevent suicide by:
- doing suicide prevention training
- sharing suicide prevention resources with your community
- referring and supporting community members to get help
- join or help run community activities to prevent suicide.
Courses and training
- Mental health first aid: conversations about suicide
- Suicide prevention training for human service workers (iLearn)
- Communicating about suicide in the media (iLearn)
For courses on iLearn, you can get help with registering an iLearn account (PDF, 693kB).
Ways to connect
- Wesley Lifeforce Networks
- Mental Health First Aid Champion Communities Program
- Conversations Matter – discussing suicide
- Life in Mind – connecting with suicide prevention services
- EveryMind - suicide prevention programs and resources
Support for carers
- Arafmi QLD – carer and family support
- Carer Gateway
- Queensland Government - Support for carers
- Carers QLD Australia
- What support is available for carers? (Sane Australia)
- Mental Health Carers Australia
- Support someone (Beyond Blue)
- Self-care after someone discloses suicidal thoughts
- Looking after yourself when helping a suicidal person - Suicide Call Back Service
Bereavement support
- STANDBY Support After Suicide - useful resources on supporting grieving families and friends
- Understanding grief and loss (Queensland Health)
- Arranging a forensic clean where necessary after a suicide (Queensland Government)
- Support services for families (Coroner’s Court of Queensland)
- Bereavement support (Clinical Excellence Queensland)
Resources
- Mental health first aid – guidelines about suicidal thoughts and behaviours (PDF, 213kB)
- Suicide first aid guidelines for people from immigrant and refugee backgrounds (PDF, 1.3MB)
- Glossary of mental health and wellbeing terms for interpreters, translators and bicultural workers
- Queensland program of assistance to survivors of torture and trauma (PDF, 1.9MB)
- Translated resources
- Translated factsheets on common mental health concerns (Embrace Multicultural Health)
For urgent situations
Where there is immediate danger or risk of suicide:
- in an emergency call Triple Zero (000)
- contact your doctor or a mental health crisis service
- go to a hospital emergency department.
For non-urgent phone support (24 hours/7 days a week)
Where there is not immediate danger or risk of suicide:
- 1300 MH Call - 1300 642 255 (mental health services)
- Suicide Call Back Service - 1300 659 467
- Lifeline - 13 11 14
- BeyondBlue - 1300 224 636
For non-urgent and specialised multicultural services
- Contact us
- Queensland Program of Assistance to Survivors of Torture and Trauma (QPASTT)
- World Wellness Group
- LGBTIQ+ Health Australia