World suicide prevention day forum

• Date:

  10 September 2012

• Location:

  Brisbane, Queensland

• Category:

  Possibility of Indigenous content

Overview

This forum is organised by the Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention, Griffith University. The forum theme includes Suicide prevention across the globe: strengthening protective factors and instilling hope.

Confirmed presentations include:

• how can we prevent suicide if we cannot measure it? Issues surrounding quality of suicide data in Australia
• suicide trends in Queensland based on the Queensland Suicide Register
• suicide prevention in Mt Isa
• Queensland police suicide prevention project
• predictors of suicide in gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex (GLBTI) communities based on Australian literature
• rail suicide prevention
• suicide in rural and remote areas of Australia
• suicide and suicide prevention in farmers
• risk and protective factors of child suicides
• potential for suicide prevention in prisons.

Contacts

Wendy Iverson
Ph: (07) 3735 3379
Email: aisrap@griffith.edu.au

Links

• View information: Registration
• View website: Australian Institute for Suicide Research and Prevention