APS response to the Draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy

The APS response to the Draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy has drawn upon evidence-informed input from our members, many of whom work with people at risk of suicide and those impacted by suicide. We advocate for a holistic, social determinants preventative approach and have focussed our recommendations on the following:

1. Psychologists as a critical workforce in suicide prevention
2. Genuine co-production of lived experience voices
3. Support for a preventative, social determinants approach which recognises intersectionality
4. Enhancing the commitment to a lifespan approach
5. Importance of place-based initiatives, particularly in rural and remote areas
6. Improving real-time data and reporting, research, and evaluation.

We commend the National Suicide Prevention Office on the development of the Advice on the Strategy and look forward to working with the government and seeing this important initiative progress to implementation.

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