Wesley LifeForce

• Reach:

  National

• Focus area:

  Mainstream with Indigenous content

• Status:

  Current

• Evaluated:

  No

Overview

Wesley LifeForce is a suicide prevention program that aims to educate, empower and resource Australian communities to be aware of the issue of suicide.

The program has four components:

• education (for example, the delivery of suicide prevention training to communities in the Top End)
• community partnerships
• Community Suicide Prevention Networks (including Indigenous-managed Networks in the Top End and New South Wales)
• memorial services.

In late 2011, Wesley Mission made a submission to the Select Committee on Youth Suicide in the Northern Territory (NT), recommending that the Government supports the establishment of further Wesley LifeForce Community Suicide Prevention Networks in high-risk communities in the NT.

The Wesley LifeForce program is an activity of Wesley Mission, and was established in 1995 in response to the growing number of suicides in Australia. The program receives financial assistance from the federal Department of Health and Ageing through the National suicide prevention strategy.

Abstract adapted from Wesley Mission

Contacts

Wesley LifeForce
93 Milton Road
PO Box 576
Ashfield, NSW 1800
Ph: (02) 8922 9095
Freecall: 1800 100 024
Fax: (02) 8922 9096
Email: lifeforce@wesleymission.org.au

Related publications

Wesley LifeForce (2011)

Wesley LifeForce Suicide Prevention Program: select committee submission: youth suicides in the Northern Territory.

Ashfield, NSW: Wesley mission

• Links
• View report: Wesley LifeForce Suicide Prevention Program: select committee submission: youth suicides in the Northern Territory (PDF - 700.0 KB)
• View information: Youth suicides in the Northern Territory: submissions
• View website: Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory
• View website: Wesley LifeForce

Links

• View information: Wesley LifeForce
• View website: Wesley Mission