{"id":106793,"date":"2015-05-13T23:52:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T13:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=106793"},"modified":"2020-12-15T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T03:17:15","slug":"suicide-prevention-network-discusses-future-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2015\/05\/13\/suicide-prevention-network-discusses-future-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Prevention Network<br> Discusses Future Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_106795\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106795\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-106795\" title=\"20150513 Suicide Prevention meeting\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106795\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Saal, from Rural and Remote Mental Health, with guest speaker Paige Matthews and South Burnett councillors Ros Heit and Barry Green<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106796\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106796\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106796\" title=\"20150513 Suicide Prevention meeting\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide2.jpg 290w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide2-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kirstie Schumacher, from Stanwell, with Margie Hams, from Medicare Local<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>May 13, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The South Burnett Suicide Prevention Network held a public meeting at the Kingaroy RSL Club on Wednesday night to discuss possible future directions for the group.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the group has published posters, organised roadshows, concerts, R U Ok days, Mental Health Week events, and the popular Depressed Cakes pop-up shops.<\/p>\n<p>The aim has been to raise awareness about suicide and spread information through the community about where help is available.<\/p>\n<p>The events are also designed to destigmatise talking about suicide, encouraging people to reach out for help when they need it.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday night&#8217;s meeting was addressed by Paige Matthews, from the Wesley LifeForce program which supports suicide prevention networks in NSW, Queensland and the Northern Territory.<\/p>\n<p>The LifeForce program is an initiative of the Sydney-based Wesley Mission which launched Lifeline more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Paige said a Wesley LifeForce suicide prevention network had recently been started at Cherbourg and was in its early stages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She shared some suicide statistics with the audience:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More Australians die every year from suicide than the death toll from road crashes, skin cancer or homicide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>NSW has the highest incidence (number) of suicides per year because it has the highest population; Queensland is the second highest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Northern Territory has the highest rate (number per 100,000 of population) in Australia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In the Wide Bay Statistical Area, the Burnett has the second highest suicide rate &#8211; ahead of Gympie-Cooloola, Hervey Bay and Maryborough<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>45 people killed themselves in the Burnett between 2007-2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Burnett has a suicide rate of 18.3; the national average is about 13<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Male suicides in other areas greatly outnumber female suicides; in the Burnett the rate is 2:1 &#8211; a higher rate of female suicides than the national trend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tim Saal, from Rural and Remote Mental Health, said the 14 roadshows that had been organised by his group &#8211; including the two visits to Kingaroy by John Schumann organised in conjunction with the local network &#8211; had been positive.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We heard anecdotally about five people who didn&#8217;t take their lives, including three who actually had a written plan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mental health nurse Mark Duffy said if the group&#8217;s activities saved even one life it was worth the effort.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_106794\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106794\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-106794\" title=\"20150513 Suicide Prevention meeting\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/20150513suicide3-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-106794\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paramedic Daniel Brand and Officer-in-Charge Adam Flory from QAS Kingaroy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Burnett Suicide Prevention Network held a public meeting at the Kingaroy RSL Club on Wednesday night to discuss possible future directions for the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":106795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[172,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Suicide Prevention Network Discusses Future Direction - southburnett.com.au<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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