Collaborating with Queensland Primary Health Networks
We’re working with Queensland Primary Health Networks and community-led suicide prevention networks to strengthen collaboration and coordination.
Key activities include:
- supporting collaboration across Primary Health Networks
- aligning suicide prevention activities across Queensland
- sharing knowledge and expertise
- strengthening connections between services and communities.
The working group helps support a more coordinated approach to suicide prevention across Queensland.
Suicide Prevention Lived Experience Advisory Group
Roses in the Ocean set up the Suicide Prevention Lived Experience Advisory Group. The group provided advice to inform the strategic direction of suicide prevention policy, planning and reform.
Key activities included:
- providing advice on the Every life evaluation plan
- contributing to the monitoring and outcomes framework
- informing the Queensland Suicide Prevention Research Agenda.
A review of the advisory group helped identify opportunities to strengthen engagement and inform future planning.
The initiative strengthened lived-living experience leadership in suicide prevention reform.
Guidelines on domestic and family violence, suicide risk and lived-living experience partnership
Roses in the Ocean and YFS are developing guidance and resources on domestic and family violence, suicide risk and lived-living experience partnership. This is being done in partnership with the Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety.
Key activities include:
- consulting with people with lived-living experience of suicide impacted by domestic and family violence
- engaging specialist services and government agencies
- delivering co-design workshops
- developing best-practice guidelines and resources.
The initiative aims to support safe, inclusive and lived-living experience-informed policy and practice.
Social and emotional wellbeing activities memorandum of understanding
The Department of Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships and Multiculturalism is delivering social and emotional wellbeing activities through a memorandum of understanding.
Key activities include:
- delivering social and emotional wellbeing activities
The initiative supports the Local Thriving Communities reform. It is delivered through the First Nations Suicide Prevention Pilot.
Reforming Suicide Surveillance project
We’re delivering this project to modernise and sustain Queensland's suicide surveillance and reporting systems. It will ensure they remain fit for purpose and continue to support timely access to suicide data and effective responses to data requests. The Department of Customer Services, Open Data and Small and Family Business is delivering the technical uplift for the project.
Key activities include:
- reviewing the data models for the Queensland Suicide Register and the interim register
- modernising both registers using a SQL-based back end and web-based front end on the Queensland Data Analytics Platform
- migrating existing cases from 1990 to 2025 to the new platform.
The initiative supports stronger data security, governance and analytical capability.
Suicide Prevention Research Scheme
Bond University, Griffith University and the University of Southern Queensland are delivering research projects through the Suicide Prevention Research Scheme.
Key activities include:
- assessing individual suicide risk using machine learning (Bond University)
- studying suicide among fly-in fly-out and drive-in drive-out construction workers (Griffith University)
- researching access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans, gender diverse and non-binary communities (University of Southern Queensland).
The initiative is helping build the evidence base for suicide prevention and guide future investment in Queensland.
Childhood exposure to domestic and family violence and youth suicide
Griffith University reviewed coronial records to better understand the links between childhood exposure to domestic and family violence and youth suicide.
Key activities include:
- reviewing coronial records of young people who died by suicide
- examining individual and family factors
- looking into household histories of domestic and family violence
- exploring contact with support services
- identifying opportunities for earlier intervention and support.
The research identified opportunities to strengthen trauma-informed support, improve cross-agency responses, and increase access to recovery services for children and young people.
Suicide data reporting
We’re delivering regular suicide reporting.
Key activities include:
- delivering monthly interim suicide reports
- publishing an annual suicide report
- responding to data requests
- using suicide data to support policy, planning and service improvement.
The initiative helps government agencies and cross-sector partners monitor trends and identify opportunities for targeted suicide prevention responses.
Monitoring and Outcomes Framework and Every life evaluation
The University of Melbourne is evaluating the implementation of Every life Phase Two and developing a Monitoring and Outcomes Framework to support this work.
Key activities include:
- evaluating implementation of Every life Phase Two
- developing a Monitoring and Outcomes Framework for government agencies to evaluate suicide prevention activities
- identifying outcomes, indicators and measures
- supporting monitoring and reporting of outcomes.
The initiative helps measure progress and inform future suicide prevention activities in Queensland.