Programs - Youth Suicide Recommendations / Programs Policy

Youth Suicide Recommendations / Programs Policy (PDF 301KB)

The ability of families, schools and communities to rear children successfully is supported by the social, emotional, spiritual and cultural well being of the whole community. For indigenous communities in Western Australia, this ability has been significantly affected by the history of the State’s colonisation since 1829 and more recently, by the detrimental effects on individuals and families resulting from the forced removal of children from their parents.

The 1997 Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission report Bringing them Home highlights how a critical part of the process of overcoming the wrongs of the past, is the effective development of preventive mental health (well being) services in the community.

These services promote resiliency and hope for Aboriginal young people and their families and are restorative of the health and well being of the communities in which they live.

An acknowledgement of the way in which contemporary social and economic conditions experienced by Aboriginal West Australians has been an outcome of these historical events is fundamental to the development of a comprehensive strategy to prevent fatal and non-fatal suicidal behaviour among the Aboriginal young people of this state.

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