Suicide in Australia: Presentation for the Setagaya City Council

Suicide in Australia: Presentation for the Setagaya City Council

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  オーストラリアへようこそ Welcome to Members and Representatives of the Setagaya City Council, Japan October 2012 Matthew Tukaki Director of the Board of Suicide Prevention Australia CEO and Executive Chairman of the Sustain Group
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  Presentation Contents… プレゼンテーションの内容  About Suicide Prevention Australia  What do we do?  Who do we represent?  Who do we work with?  Suicide in Australia  Thematic areas and groups  Data and information sharing  Government Policies  The challenges of suicide prevention in a large country  Remote versus city  The role of social media and traditional media  Examples of work at the national and local level  The City of Casey in Melbourne (Local Government / City Council)  Summary and vote of thanks
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  Who we are… 誰が私たちですか？  Established twenty years ago  Australia’s peak mental health body for suicide prevention  Member based organisations representing both and small and large organisations  Working with the Australian Federal, State and Territory Governments when it comes to policy development and advocacy  Developing position statements around some of the key issues and challenges when it comes to suicide prevention such as GLBTI, Regional and Remote Areas, Indigenous Australians, Young Men and the Aged  We work with the nations largest service and frontline providers, clinicians, government policy makers and individuals alike
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  Who we are… 誰が私たちですか？  We have established a variety of sector and community engagement initiatives as part of our knowledge sharing and collaboration activities:  The National Committee for Standardised Reporting  The Coalition for Suicide Prevention  The Lived Experience Policy Advisory Committee  We better inform Government @ the State level through our representation on various State Mental Health Commissions (New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia)  We represent more than 150 of the nations service providers, sector and individuals
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  Who we are… 誰が私たちですか？  Suicide Prevention Australia is Governed by a Board with some members who are elected and others who are appointed – our Board has a mix of skills from frontline and policy development, to service delivery and clinical, business and executive / professional  We have a small team that includes people from research and communications backgrounds, event management and policy development, fundraising and general administration
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  Position Statements… 位置の文  Providing thought leadership that assists the community and sector develop their own strategies and positions when it comes to key areas of focus and concern  Enabling knowledge transfer and collaboration
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  Suicide in Australia:Talking Points…
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  We are alarge and vast country…but…  While we have a relatively small population by comparison (Japan 2011: 127 817 277 & Australia 2011: 22,620,600) we have a relatively high rate of suicide in the world  Although compared with Australia Japan per 100,000 head of population has on average 23.8 per year (Male: 33.5 & Female: 14.6) while the Australia figure is 9.7 deaths per 100,000 (Male: 4.5 and Female: 4.5). The land mass of Japan  Approximately 2000 Australians die from could easily fit into the central desert of Australia suicide every year. Men are 4 times more likely to die by suicide than women Figures provided by the World Health Organisation: Unless otherwise stated all statistics are from WHO: "Suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex (Table)". World Health Organization. 2011. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
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  Figures…  Over the past decade, about 2100 people have died by suicide each year.  There were 2132 deaths from suicide registered in 2009  Deaths from suicide represented 1.4% of all deaths registered in 2009  In Australia 48% of all suicides in 2000 were by 35-64 year olds; an additional 13% were by 65% and over.  The suicide rates for children younger than 15 years is estimated to have increased by 92% between the 1960s to 1990s  Suicide rates are generally higher amongst males, rural and regional dwellers, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) people may be at increased risk.
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  Data collection… データコレクション  We have no single collection point for data (NCSRS) and have been working on a common form for front line responders  Data is sometimes out of date and skewed / there are many reasons for this ranging from the time the data is collected through to the length of time it may take for a coroner to make a formal decision  SPA has been instrumental in bringing all of the key stakeholders to the table to find a way of establishing a much more structured and timely process for the collection of information In the USA CDC has funded 18 states and established the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) to gather, share, and link state-level data on violent deaths. NVDRS provides CDC and states with a more accurate understanding of violent deaths. This enables policy makers and community leaders to make informed decisions about violence prevention programs, including those that address suicide.
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  The City ofCasey… • The City of Casey has been at the heart of media attention in recent months as the community grapples with an increasing youth suicide • Known as the Berwick cluster, the community came together in public to try and identify what some of the root causes could be and what could be done to better support young people and their families • The challenges were highlighted by a national television program known as “Four Corners” • “1 school lost 4 kids in 12 months” • Many deaths have been death by train • It is a silent killer
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  There is no3G in Heaven “Until now the accepted wisdom has been to publicly downplay suicide but in speaking to families who've lost children, reporter Liz Jackson found that young people are in fact talking about suicide all the time on facebook. Social media has the potential to influence behaviour, for better or worse, and it's now accepted that suicide prevention strategies need to deal with this. As one parent explains, it was only after the death of her child that she realised her daughter had been discussing her depression and suicidal thoughts on facebook. When calls and messages kept coming addressed to her deceased daughter the mother was forced to write: "Can everyone please stop calling and messaging (my daughter). She doesn't have her phone. I do. And by the way there is no 3G in heaven.“ Four Corners tells the story of one community in a major Australian city where the threat of repeated suicides amongst young people became so overwhelming that families and community leaders, backed by mental health experts, held an old fashioned public meeting to allow the families and friends of the victims to tell their stories. It was a bold and controversial step but it was the only way they felt they could deal with the situation. In doing so the community hoped they could break the terrible silence and find a way to confront this silent enemy. You will be shocked by what you see.” http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/09/06/3584646.htm ABC Four Corners
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  The need todo more… 我々 はより多くを行うことができます “As a member of the Board of Suicide Prevention Australia I want every life to count, but I want to see better coordination in the sector, greater investment on prevention and more talk about the issues. In particular I want to ensure that whether your first language is English or not, young or old, your sexual orientation is different to mine or you live in a regional and remote community – you have the same access to the very services needed to keep you with us and not lost from us.” Matthew Tukaki, Australian Representative to the United Nations Global Compact Addressing the Sydney Peace Foundation / September 2012, Director of the Board, Suicide Prevention Australia
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  Reference Points…参照点  Cityof Casey Profile of young people: http://www.casey.vic.gov.au/doclib/document30Jun2011- 144119.pdf?saveAs=Profile_of_Young_People_Living_in_the_City_of_Casey_v30Jun11.pdf  Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, 2011  Facts and Statistics, Mindframe National Media Initiative, 2011  Facts and Statistics, Mindframe National Media Initiative, 2011  Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, 2011  Trends and predictors of suicide in Australian children, Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, 2011  Facts and Statistics, Mindframe National Media Initiative, 2011  Figures provided by the World Health Organisation: Unless otherwise stated all statistics are from WHO: "Suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex (Table)". World Health Organization. 2011.  http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/suicide/datasources.html  There is no 3G in Heaven / ABC Four Corners: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2012/09/06/3584646.htm
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  ありがとう Thank you www.suicidepreventionaust.org.au