In quiet country towns, families, police and community leaders are being trained to hold suicide interventions in a bid to reduce the tragically high rate of Indigenous people who take their own lives.
Aboriginal adults are more than twice as likely than non-Indigenous Australians to commit suicide.
Key points:
- Aboriginal communities are being trained in suicide prevention in new direct approach
- Of the 100 people already trained, all report having had to use it
- Communities devastated by suicide feel empowered to help prevent it
Aboriginal adults are more than twice as likely than non-Indigenous Australians to commit suicide.