Newly developed culturally responsive suicide prevention resources and courses

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.

The Queensland Transcultural Mental Health Centre have recently developed culturally responsive suicide prevention resources and training courses:

  1. Culturally Responsive Suicide Prevention Training for Human Service Workers: an online, free training which consists of four modules. This training teaches non-clinicians how to identify and support people from CALD backgrounds who may be at risk of suicide. Training can be accessed through their website. For support to register, participants can view the iLearn Registration and Course Enrolment Guide.
  2. Communicating about Suicide in the Media: an online training course which aims to upskill media professionals working in CALD media outlet on how to report suicide safely in the media. Training can be accessed through their website. For support to register, participants can view the iLearn Registration and Course Enrolment Guide.
  3. Supporting a person in your community who is suicidal: a suicide prevention community resource. Available in 26 different languages and simple English. This resource can be accessed through their website.
  4. Suicide Prevention Resources Hub: which includes resources for service providers and people from a CALD background and links to organisations and services that can provide mental health, suicide prevention, or multicultural psychosocial supports. This hub can be accessed through their website.
  5. Updated Glossary of Mental Health and Wellbeing Terms for Interpreters, Translators, and Bi-cultural Workers: which is available in 30 different languages and can be accessed through their website.

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