This type of information is invaluable and should inform the ways that resources and interventions are developed and targeted to children and young people. Focusing on the concerns identified through the contacts by children and young people is important because this may assist us to know how we can effectively meet their needs. The Northern Territory Council of Social Service told me: Valuing the contributions young people make to society and ensuring that there are legitimate pathways for young people‘s views to be actively heard will make a marked difference to the overall mental health and incidence of suicide currently experienced. The data I received from NCIS, ABS, AIHW and Kids Helpline has been invaluable and has informed some of my recommendations. to from here? I hope that my examination of non-suicidal self-harm and suicidal behaviour can be a blueprint for identifying some of the issues that can inform the development of a specific national research agenda for children and young people who are engaging in non-suicidal self-harm and suicidal behaviour. The submission by the Black Dog Institute recommended the development of a ‘new national suicide prevention research agenda for children and young people’. The Orygen Youth Health Research Centre made a similar recommendation and pointed out to me: one of the key things lacking in Australia’s approach to the prevention of suicide and self-harm among young people is a truly strategic approach towards developing a research agenda which can be used to inform best practice. The submission by Orygen Youth Health Research Centre also told me: Australia has numerous organisations with specific expertise in suicide prevention, including [Orygen Youth Health Research Centre], headspace, and the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre that together hold the expertise and infrastructure to lead the way in a collaboration of this nature. Currently the Standing Committee on Child and Youth Health is developing the National Child and Youth Strategic Framework (the National Strategic Framework). The National Strategic Framework is an Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council funded project and is being progressed through its Community Care and Population Health Principal Committee. The National Strategic Framework will assist in developing national service strategies that outline roles and responsibilities and establish priorities. The National Strategic Framework could make establishing a national research agenda for children and young people engaging in non-suicidal self-harm and suicidal behaviour a focus area.
This type of information is invaluable and should inform the ways that resources and interventions are developed and targeted to children and young people. Focusing on the concerns identified through the contacts by children and young people is important because this may assist us to know how we can effectively meet their needs. The Northern Territory Council of Social Service told me: Valuing the contributions young people make to society and ensuring that there are legitimate pathways for young people‘s views to be actively heard will make a marked difference to the overall mental health and incidence of suicide currently experienced. The data I received from NCIS, ABS, AIHW and Kids Helpline has been invaluable and has informed some of my recommendations. to from here? I hope that my examination of non-suicidal self-harm and suicidal behaviour can be a blueprint for identifying some of the issues that can inform the development of a specific national research agenda for children and young people who are engaging in non-suicidal self-harm and suicidal behaviour. The submission by the Black Dog Institute recommended the development of a ‘new national suicide prevention research agenda for children and young people’. The Orygen Youth Health Research Centre made a similar recommendation and pointed out to me: one of the key things lacking in Australia’s approach to the prevention of suicide and self-harm among young people is a truly strategic approach towards developing a research agenda which can be used to inform best practice. The submission by Orygen Youth Health Research Centre also told me: Australia has numerous organisations with specific expertise in suicide prevention, including [Orygen Youth Health Research Centre], headspace, and the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre that together hold the expertise and infrastructure to lead the way in a collaboration of this nature. Currently the Standing Committee on Child and Youth Health is developing the National Child and Youth Strategic Framework (the National Strategic Framework). The National Strategic Framework is an Australian Health Ministers’ Advisory Council funded project and is being progressed through its Community Care and Population Health Principal Committee. The National Strategic Framework will assist in developing national service strategies that outline roles and responsibilities and establish priorities. The National Strategic Framework could make establishing a national research agenda for children and young people engaging in non-suicidal self-harm and suicidal behaviour a focus area.
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