Development of Tasmania’s Suicide Prevention Strategy

The Tasmanian community has long been aware suicide is a significant health and wellbeing issue that has a profound impact on many sectors of the population. Unlike other states in Australia, Tasmania’s suicide rates have risen, over the same period. The Tasmanian Government’s Building the Foundations for Mental Health and Wellbeing strategy recognises that in order to improve community outcomes all sectors of government and community need to be engaged in developing a suicide prevention strategy for Tasmania and implementing its solutions.

The objective of this project is to develop a Suicide Prevention Strategy for Tasmania with the following principles in mind:

1. a strong platform of work has already been completed over the last few years which lays a solid base for the Strategy perhaps up to 70% of the Strategy has already been consolidated;

2. the need therefore is to build on this base and add value by introducing a layer of innovative thinking that takes the Tasmanian Strategy into the forefront of National and International

conceptualisation; and

3. to generate the Strategy not in ‘consultant’ isolation but rather as a collaborative effort between consultant and a large number of passionate stakeholders.

The methodology for this project includes a literature review, consultations with Tasmania’s Suicide Prevention Committee, an Appreciative Inquiry Workshop, a series of key stakeholder interviews and the drafting and finalisation of the Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Strategy.

This projects duration is six months from December 2009 to May 2010.

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Development of Tasmania’s Suicide Prevention Strategy