On Thursday 21 October 2021, the Greater Whitsunday Council of Mayors Suicide Prevention Taskforce Working Group presented their final consultation report to the Greater Whitsunday Council of Mayors.

The Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre is a specialist state-wide service that works to ensure people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds receive culturally responsive mental health care and support.

Whilst the Cairns and Hinterland Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan (SPCAP) was finalised on 30 June of this year, the project team has spent the last few months finalising the brand and pulling everything together for today - the public launch of the Cairns and Hinterland SPCAP.

In a first for North Queensland, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), in partnership with Torres and Cape, Cairns and Hinterland, Townsville, and Mackay Hospital and Health Services (HHSs), have developed a Joint Regional Wellbeing Plan for Northern Queensland (the Plan).

The Cairns and Hinterland Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan (SPCAP) is a community and sector endorsed path forward for coordinated suicide prevention activities across the region.

At the beginning of May, Northern Queensland Primary Health Network (NQPHN), in partnership with the Mackay Suicide Prevention Community Action Plan (SPCAP) Group, Mackay Regional Council, Whitsunday Regional Council, Isaac Regional Council, and Mackay Hospital and Health Service hosted the Mayor’s Suicide Prevention co-design workshop at the Mackay Entertainment and Convention Centre (MECC).

Do you live in Cairns, Innisfail, Ravenshoe, Mareeba, or Mossman and have a lived experience of suicidal crisis or attempt, caring for someone through a suicide crisis, or bereaved by suicide? We want to hear from you!

Are you part of a community organisation providing suicide prevention services? Are you a mental health professional or support worker? Or are you a first responder to suicidal crises?

'Better Off With You' suicide prevention initiative

Helping suicide prevention in Townsville.