A review of 156 local projects funded under Australia's National Suicide Prevention Strategy: Overview and lessons learned

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of 156 local suicide prevention projects funded under Australia’s National Suicide Prevention Strategy (NSPS), and describes lessons elicited from a content analysis of the projects’ progress and final reports. The purpose of the analysis was to maximise gains in Australian suicide prevention activities by highlighting promising processes and impacts and minimise repetition of less successful elements. The projects targeted 11 groups (with the most common being young people, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people in rural/remote areas); occurred in various settings (with community-based projects being particularly popular); and employed differ..