Tuesday, 30th April The National Suicide Prevention Conference 2024

Mark Carter, Master of Ceremonies

Welcome to Country - Jack Buckskin, Kuma Kaaru
Welcome - His Excellency General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of Australia
Opening Address - Nieves Murray, CEO of Suicide Prevention Australia
Acknowledgement of Lived Experience, Jo Langford
Conference Welcome - The Hon Emma McBride, MP, Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Assistant Minister for Rural and Regional Health
HESTA, Principal Sponsor - Linda Webb
MP Address - The Hon Chris Picton, Minister of Health and Wellbeing SA

• Diego De Leo Address - Prof Tom Calma AO  - Tom Calma AO

• The National Suicide Prevention Strategy - Michael Gardner, Alan Woodward, Susan Edgar and Nieves Murray

• Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide - Dr Peggy Brown AO - Peggy Brown

• Connecting with men who are doing it tough - Georgina Beasley
• Reflection and Findings from the 2023 Coronial Inquest into Trans and Gender Diverse Suicide Cluster - Joe Ball
• Murrumbidgee Local Response Group - A multiagency region-wide approach when responding to tragedy. - Emma Bromham
• A coach-supported, digital parenting program for parents of adolescents at risk of suicide: Pilot trial - Alice Cao
•   Suicide loss gave me courage to 'shake things up' inspires my growth and hope. - Lidia M Di Lembo
• Compassionate connections: Peer support for family and friends supporting someone experiencing suicidal distress - Philippa Ditton-Phare
• Cultivating Collective Care: Roses in the Ocean Suicide Prevention Peer Worker Hub - Mark M Ellis
• Harnessing the power of networks in a place based approach to suicide prevention - Linda Fielding
• Silent Conversations Spoken Out loud. Addressing Suicide Risk in the Construction Industry - Christopher Forde
• Cultivating resilience: a new workplace approach to suicide prevention - Kali Gray
• Flipping The Script on Shame and Stigma - India Guerrieri
• Responding to our First Responders: A proactive approach to increase support and safeguard their well-being. - Krista Hawke
• Exploring Suicide Ideation Triggers among American Indian & Alaskan Native Communities: Technology Versus Traditional Perspective - Roseline Igbadumhe

• Communicating online about suicide: Challenges faced by individuals, social media companies, and policy makers - Jo Robinson
• Suicide prevention in youth justice detention settings: An expert consensus study. - Sanne Dr Oostermeijer
• Connected, safe, supported: Effectiveness and feasibility of Safe Havens in South Western Sydney - Alyssa R Morse
• Using Optimised Google Ads Campaign to Reach those Under the Radar: Optimisation, Pilot and RCT - Sandersan Onie

• Empowering First Nations youth: Amplifying impact through listening and learning - Karen Cashman
• Relationship breakdown and men’s suicidality: A unified approach to a complex problem - Michael J Wilson and Jamie Lee

• Stepwise Approach to Implement and Evaluate the Decision Support Systems Within Suicide Helpline Services   - Yueming Gu
• Exposing Tragedy: A Call for Action in Addressing Murder-Suicides Involving Children and Families in Australia - Sheryl Hateley
• The SA Suicide Prevention Act, reflections of a Legislative process culminating in compassionate gatekeeper training. - Dave N Thompson

• Unified support - Lived experience and counsellors working together, supporting those bereaved by suicide. - Jo Langford and Bianca Lavorgna
• Implementation informing workforce and service sustainability - Amy Bertakis and Tony Martin

• Real-time measurement and portrayal of empathy through voice analysis - Mapa Mudiyanselage Ruvini Sanjeewa
• Co-designing a residential service for young people experiencing suicidal behaviours – The Luminos Project - Kirsten Panton
• MyAccess to Psychological Therapies – Suicide Prevention (MyAPT-SP) Program: A Pilot. - Dayna Faraonio

• Suicide prevention at university: Students supporting students' mental health and wellbeing  - Clare Nicholls and Sarah Boomer
• Not a ‘problem to solve’: on ‘Frequent Callers’ to helplines and digital services - Sophie Potter
• Empowering NSW Communities supporting young people: Suicide First Aid Training for Parents, Teachers and Youth Touchpoints  - Anthea Jirgens

• Parent support through a Child and Youth Hope service following a young person’s suicide attempt - Liza Hopkins
• Who are we? Help seeking trends for children and young people engaged with Kids Helpline - Ben R Pook
• Reducing and preventing suicide - it’s a whole-of-community journey - Jo Riley and Glenn Cotter

• Collaborating to prevent suicide in regionally remote areas - Kesi-Maree Prior and Lauren Thompson
• Social Work Incident Support Service – providing timely evidence based responses to critical incidents in South Australian government education sites - Tanya Russo
• Mates in Construction  Enhancing impact by working with industry to develop new initiatives.  - Chris Lockwood

Senator Anne Ruston - Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care. Shadow Minister for Sport, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate

• National Keynote Speaker - Nathan Bolton - Nathan Bolton

• Risks in the perinatal period: understanding factors, screening and collaborative care pathways - Erin Dr Seeto
• A workplace postvention approach to address the widespread exposure to suicide in human services.  - Alison Clements

• Supporting military & first responder communities after a suicide death: a national update - Henry Bowen
• Suicide in the Australian trans population: a strengths-based approach for working with trans people of all genders - Yesim Karasu and Sam Rodgers

• Adverse childhood experiences and suicide - Anne Leslie and Craig Hughes-Cashmore
• The Men’s Table: Impact and outcomes after five years of a community-led suicide prevention program - David Pointon

• Systems need stories: The national Declaration of LGBTIQA+SB Lived Experience Leadership in Suicide Prevention - Maya Ellazam
• Moral injury - A new consideration for workplace psychosocial hazard and suicide - Nikki Jamieson

• Uptake and experience of mental health crisis support at Adelaide’s Urgent Mental Health Care Centre - Sareya Dudley and Susan Njuguna
• Partnerships in community postvention: headspace and Lifeline Australia working in collaboration to reduce suicide risk - Natalie Hunt

• The consumer journey on the Suicide Care Pathway - Pippa Stevenson
• Lifting the Veil of Isolation: Connection, Identity and Fostering Hope through Postvention Group Work - Julia O'Halloran and Saori Yamashita

• "Voices of Resilience: Transformative Strategies in Youth Suicide Prevention by Talk Out Loud" - Linda Jury and Mary Galouzis
• The Concept of Mateship in a construction industry workplace suicide prevention program. - Jorgen Gullestrup

• Improving the Responsiveness of Coroners’ Courts to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Families after Suicide - Julie Robotham
• Reducing loneliness and suicide risk in older people in independent living - Jason Nunes