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AIMhi mental health app now available for smart phones
The AIMhi Stay Strong app is a colourful, user-friendly digital mental health tool developed by Menzies with Australian First Nations people.
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MEDIA RELEASE | Ngawurramangajirri - Tiwi phrases for mental health and wellbeing
A new Tiwi to English phrase book to help people talk about mental health and wellbeing is being launched in Wurrumiyanga.
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National Suicide Prevention Trial - two new programs announced
New programs have been announced as part of a National Suicide Prevention Trial underway in the Northern Territory.
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Guidelines to improve assessments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people presenting to hospital with self-harm and suicidal thought
Scimex (the Science Media Exchange) is an online news portal aimed primarily at helping journalists cover science.
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Guidelines to improve assessments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people presenting to hospital
Life in Mind is a national gateway connecting Australian suicide prevention services to each other and the community.
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New guidelines to improve assessments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people presenting to hospital with self-harm and suicidal thoughts
The Centre for Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention - Guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people presenting to hospital with self-harm and suicidal thought
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NEW GUIDELINES TO IMPROVE CARE OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE AT RISK OF SELF-HARM AND SUICIDE
Tanja Hirvonen, Bernard Leckning and Gary Robinson write: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have higher rates of hospitalisation involving self-harm in comparison with non-Indigenous Australians
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At Pioneer FC, suicide does discriminate
Gary Robinson, a suicide researcher at Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin, traces a wave of suicides that hit Western Australia’s Kimberley region in recent years to the arrival of alcohol and cash-based economies, and a breakdown of cultural authority structures
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The Wire | NEW ONLINE TOOL INTRODUCED TO PREVENT BULLYING OF INDIGENOUS YOUTH
Digital Trakz uses interactive cartoon graphics to present real-life scenarios of bullying and teasing that happens in the Indigenous communities and asks youth what they what do in particular situations.
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$630,000 Injected into Suicide Prevention PhD Research
Six PhD candidates from five Australian universities in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory will each receive $105,000 in funding to undertake new research into suicide prevention over three years.
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Tackling smoking in remote communities
The development of Yarning about Smoking is a collaboration between the Health Department’s Remote Alcohol and Other Drugs Workforce Program in Primary Health Care and the Menzies School of Health Research
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NTG Media Release | Tackling smoking in remote communities
The development of Yarning about Smoking is a collaboration between the Health Department’s Remote Alcohol and Other Drugs Workforce Program in Primary Health Care and the Menzies School of Health Research. The resource can be used and accessed by people all across the Health Department as well as the NGO sector to provide assessments and intervention with people who are smoking.
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Mental health is important for everyone