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Youth Suicide 
Befrienders International
This web page provides a variety of suicide related information in 15 languages, including suicide warning signs and facts and myths associated with suicide.
http://www.befrienders.org/suicide/warning.htm
Centre for Adolescent Health
This page overviews suicide risk factors for adolescents aged 15 - 24, including information on special populations.
http://www.rch.org.au/cah/research/index.cfm?doc_id=1016&print=yes#facts
Early Intervention in Youth Suicide Prevention
This site contains an overview of the problem of youth suicide in Australia, as well as prevention of youth suicide.
http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/resources/auseinet/netter3/netter01.php
Family Help Kit
This document provides information on a range of mental health issues including suicide prevention. Suicide specific information includes warning signs and interventions for a suicidal child in crisis.
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/policy/cmh/publications/Family_Help_Kit.pdf
Kids Help Line Infosheets
The infosheets provide both general and specific information on a range of problem types, counsellor selection and training and other issues raised by children and young people.
http://www.kidshelp.com.au/research/infosheets.html
National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy Setting the evidence-based research agenda for Australia: A literature review
This document is a joint initiative of the Strategic Research Development Committee of the Office of National Health and Medical Research Council, and the Mental Health Branch of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, and is composed of three literature reviews. The first, by Chris Cantor, Kerryn Neulinger, Janet Roth and Dawn Spinks addresses the epidemiology of suicide and attempted suicide in young Australians. The second by Annette Beautrais addresses Risk factors for suicide and attempted suicide among young people, and the third by George Patton and Jane Burns addresses Preventative interventions for youth suicide: A risk factor-based approach.
http://www.health.gov.au/nhmrc/publications/synopses/mh12syn.htm
Reach Out
This document contains a range of information in mental illness and youth suicide, including depression and suicide and self-harm.
http://www.reachout.com.au/default.asp?ti=72
Suicide Prevention Taskforce Report
This page summarises suicide risk factors for young people aged 15 - 24, as well as including information on special populations.
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/mentalhealth/publications/suicide/exsum3.htm
The epidemiology of suicide and attempted suicide among young Australians: A report to the National Health and Medical Research Council
This book provides statistical information on suicide and attempted suicide in young people in Australia.
Who Else Can Help
The Kids Help Line referral database of some 7,000 services available freely online via a searchable database. This is a national database that is constantly being added to and updated. If young people cannot find what they are looking for, there is a section on the site that allows them to let Kids Help Line know what they were looking for and where so it is possible to build on the database. Services can also check if they are on the database and request to be added or update their details via an online form.
http://www.kidshelp.com.au/whoelsecanhelp/index.html
Y B Blue
This document provides information on a range of issues relating to youth suicide.
http://beyondblue.org.au/ybblue/
YBBlue

Ybblue's all about getting the message out there that it's okay to talk about depression, and to encourage young people and their family and friends to get help when it's needed.

 

Ybblue's story

 

Ybblue started in 2000 as a Centenary of Federation Millennium Legacy Initiative run through Toowong Private Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland.  Then, as now, youth suicide was an issue of concern to a lot of people.  Doctors, advertising agencies, health professionals, web designers, musicians, young people and many other groups worked together to set up Ybblue to address the high youth suicide rates in Australia.

 

In 2002, beyondblue, the national depression initiative, partnered with the Toowong Private Hospital to support the Ybblue campaign and take it nationwide.  Since then, beyondblue has worked to expand the focus of the campaign from suicide to youth depression awareness and prevention as a whole and to involve young people in all it does.
http://www.beyondblue.org.au/ybblue/
YBBlue

Ybblue's all about getting the message out there that it's okay to talk about depression, and to encourage young people and their family and friends to get help when it's needed.

 

Ybblue's story

 

Ybblue started in 2000 as a Centenary of Federation Millennium Legacy Initiative run through Toowong Private Hospital in Brisbane, Queensland.  Then, as now, youth suicide was an issue of concern to a lot of people.  Doctors, advertising agencies, health professionals, web designers, musicians, young people and many other groups worked together to set up Ybblue to address the high youth suicide rates in Australia.

 

In 2002, beyondblue, the national depression initiative, partnered with the Toowong Private Hospital to support the Ybblue campaign and take it nationwide.  Since then, beyondblue has worked to expand the focus of the campaign from suicide to youth depression awareness and prevention as a whole and to involve young people in all it does.
http://www.beyondblue.org.au/ybblue/
Youth Suicide and Self-Injury Australia
This Supplement presents some descriptive data on youth suicide in Australia. It is largely based on Australian deaths data up to 1995, though some sections are also based on Australian hospital morbidity data and on international mortality data.
http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/bulletin15/bulletin15sup.html
Youth Suicide In Australia
This page contains suicide risk factors for young people, as well as information on special populations.
http://www.health.gov.au/hsdd/mentalhe/resources/nysps/causes.htm
Youth suicide in Australia: a background monograph
This publication outlines the serious public health issue of youth suicide in Australia. It has been compiled from existing published sources in English language journals and books over the last twelve years and from recent Australian data sourced from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. You can view each section by clicking on the links below or you can download the entire document as an Acrobat PDF file.
http://www.health.gov.au/hsdd/mentalhe/resources/nysps/toc.htm
Youth Suicide Prevention Kit
With increased community awareness of youth suicide, the demand from individuals, community organisations, government departments and the media for information and advice has increased significantly. The Interdepartmental Youth Suicide Prevention Committee, established by the Minister for Health in 1995, therefore initiated and auspiced the development of this Information Kit to provide general information requests/requirements of secondary school students, media and the general public.
http://www.infoxchange.net.au/dhs/youth/suicide/
   
   
   

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