working with Pacific families and communities (eg, churches) to build leadership in suicide prevention working with whānau, hapū, iwi and communities to build leadership in suicide prevention. 6. Strengthen systems to support people who are in distress Make sure people in distress can get timely access to culturally appropriate care and support. Make sure mental health service users can get timely access to culturally appropriate care and support. Make available culturally appropriate and timely follow-up and support for individuals after a suicide attempt or self-harm, including for: Māori Pacific peoples. How this can help: Having timely access to appropriate and relevant care and support can reduce the risk of suicidal behaviour. So it is important to have systems in place to care for and support people in distress. Care and support can come from a range of sources, including whānau, family, friends, churches, communities and government agencies. Activities in this area could include: changing the opening hours of services that provide care or support to people in distress so that they are open when people need them developing apps to help people in distress to navigate services developing e-therapies and increase access to e-therapies developing online resources to help support people in distress encouraging emergency department staff to consistently follow best-practice guidance on caring for people who present to emergency departments as being at risk of suicide encouraging services to adopt trauma informed care to help people who have experienced repeated, chronic or multiple traumas expanding the peer support workforce making sure people are able to access appropriate services and support no matter where they live partnering with Māori led services to care for and support Māori who are in distress promoting ways to restrict access to means of suicide among people who are in distress providing accessible and culturally appropriate information about where people in distress can go for care and support providing telehealth services supporting people with alcohol and other drug problems training community members to identify and support individuals in distress and refer them to services that can help.
working with Pacific families and communities (eg, churches) to build leadership in suicide prevention working with whānau, hapū, iwi and communities to build leadership in suicide prevention. 6. Strengthen systems to support people who are in distress Make sure people in distress can get timely access to culturally appropriate care and support. Make sure mental health service users can get timely access to culturally appropriate care and support. Make available culturally appropriate and timely follow-up and support for individuals after a suicide attempt or self-harm, including for: Māori Pacific peoples. How this can help: Having timely access to appropriate and relevant care and support can reduce the risk of suicidal behaviour. So it is important to have systems in place to care for and support people in distress. Care and support can come from a range of sources, including whānau, family, friends, churches, communities and government agencies. Activities in this area could include: changing the opening hours of services that provide care or support to people in distress so that they are open when people need them developing apps to help people in distress to navigate services developing e-therapies and increase access to e-therapies developing online resources to help support people in distress encouraging emergency department staff to consistently follow best-practice guidance on caring for people who present to emergency departments as being at risk of suicide encouraging services to adopt trauma informed care to help people who have experienced repeated, chronic or multiple traumas expanding the peer support workforce making sure people are able to access appropriate services and support no matter where they live partnering with Māori led services to care for and support Māori who are in distress promoting ways to restrict access to means of suicide among people who are in distress providing accessible and culturally appropriate information about where people in distress can go for care and support providing telehealth services supporting people with alcohol and other drug problems training community members to identify and support individuals in distress and refer them to services that can help.
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