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New Paper Presents an Overview of Recommendations to the Go8 Roadmap Report
24 September 2020 Roadmap to Recovery: Reporting on a Research Taskforce Supporting Indigenous Responses to COVID-19 in Australia ABSTRACT In April 2020 a Group of Eight Taskforce was convened, consisting of over 100 researchers, [...]
New Paper Highlights Critical Role of Indigenous Knowledges and Methodologies
10 September 2020 New paper highlights critical role of Indigenous knowledges and methodologies MEDIA RELEASE The Lowitja Institute today published a discussion paper that articulates how and why Indigenous knowledges and research methodologies [...]
Indigenous Leaders Call for Input to Renew Indigenous Suicide Prevention Strategy
10 September 2020 Indigenous Leaders Call for Input to Renew Indigenous Suicide Prevention Strategy MEDIA RELEASE Marking World Suicide Prevention Day, Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Australia (GDPSA) announced the renewal of the 2013 [...]
Reducing Emissions to Protect Mental Health and Wellbeing
4 September 2020 Mental health charities call for stronger action on climate change and support for NGO’s in the lead up to Black Summer Bushfire anniversary. MEDIA RELEASE Mental health, disability, homelessness charities [...]
Open Letter Covid-19 and Protection of Young People in Prisons
24 August 2020 The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services. Open Letter COVID-19 and Protection of Young People in Prisons. MEDIA RELEASE: LEGAL SECTOR SIGN ON TO OPEN LETTER CALLING FOR URGENT [...]
Manual of Resources in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention
15 July 2020 Manual of Resources in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention. The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP) is developing the online Manual of [...]
Black Lives Matter: Psychologists take a stand against racism
3 July 2020 Black Lives Matter: Psychologists take a stand against racism. The Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA) and the Australian Psychological Society (APS) have brought together six of Australia’s peak psychology organisations to [...]
COVID-19 Mental Health Response
25 June 2020 COVID-19 Mental Health Response. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a national Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander COVID-19 working party was convened through the Transforming Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing Project [...]
Pathways to Justice
Tom Calma 8 June 2020 Pathways to Justice. The Pathways to Justice report published by the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) states that although Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults make up [...]
Black Lives Matter. Aboriginal Lives Matter. Black Deaths in Custody Must Stop.
3 June 2020 Black Lives Matter. Aboriginal Lives Matter. Black Deaths in Custody Must Stop. We are all responsible for shaping the world that our children are born into. The Centre of Best Practice [...]
Indigenous Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Helpline
18 May 2020 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) leaders call for Indigenous mental health and suicide prevention helpline Responding to the National Cabinet announcement of $48.1m to support a National Mental Health and [...]
#YouCanTalk Video Campaign
4 December 2019 #YouCanTalk Video Campaign Launching Today Encourages People to Start the Conversation about Suicide The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide (CBPATSISP) has joined forces with other [...]
Joint Approach for Wicked Problems
4 November 2019 Funded by a $5 million dollar grant, key Indigenous leaders from across Australia held their inaugural meeting last month in Perth, charged with the task of finding innovative approaches to [...]
Guidelines for best practice
New guidelines to improve assessments for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people presenting to hospital with self-harm and suicidal thoughts The Menzies School of Health Research (Menzies), commissioned by the Centre for Best Practice [...]
The Healing Colour of Country
The Healing Colour of Country: Trauma recovery through culture, art and wildflowers Tuesday 9 July 2019 The 2nd National and World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conferences in Perth Western Australia in November 2018 brought together [...]
Indigenous Suicide Prevention in Colonised Countries
Indigenous suicide is a global concern. The 2nd National and World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conferences in Perth WA in November 2018 brought together Indigenous peoples from Australia, Canada, United States of America and New [...]
Indigenous Youth Suicide
Indigenous Leader commends the WA Government commitment to the recommendations of the Coronial report into the deaths of 13 children and young people Professor Pat Dudgeon, Project Director of the Centre of Best Practice [...]
Empowering our Community
Workshop on Empowerment and Accountability in Indigenous Youth Suicide Prevention, Canberra The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP) co-hosted a workshop on preventing Indigenous youth suicide in [...]
Supporting us to lead changes that make a difference
Indigenous leaders welcome the weekend’s mental health research and youth suicide prevention announcements and call for multi-party support for empowerment, equity and significantly increased investment in Indigenous primary mental health care. Centre of Best Practice [...]
Indigenous mental health and suicide prevention leaders respond to Federal Budget
Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP) Director Professor Pat Dudgeon and National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership in Mental Health (NATSILMH) Chair Mr Tom Brideson cautiously welcomed [...]
Indigenous Leaders Call Australian Governments to Action on Indigenous Child and Youth Suicide
Background The Centre of Best Practice in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention (CBPATSISP) was established by the Australian Government to help reduce the causes, prevalence and impact of suicide on Indigenous individuals, families [...]