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        4. A slide from De Backman-Hoyle's presentation
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        10. Building a culture of partnership between people with lived experience of suicide and researchers in suicide prevention
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        2. Joint mental health commissions and leaders communique
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        4. The Mental Health Commission of New South Wales welcomes the appointme...
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        3. Central and Eastern Sydney
          • Key themes in Central and Eastern Sydney
          • Showcasing: Buduwa Step-Up Step-Down Service
          • Showcasing: Comprehensive Assessment Service for Psychosis and At Risk (CASPAR)
          • Showcasing: Health Justice Partnership (HJP)
          • Showcasing: Primary Integrated Care Supports (PICS) Program
          • Showcasing: Suicide prevention through connection service
        4. Hunter New England and Central Coast
          • Showcasing: Family Wellbeing Program
          • Showcasing: Police Ambulance Early Access to Mental Health via Telehealth
          • Showcasing: Horsetales
          • Showcasing: My Choice - Pathways to Community Living Initiative
          • Showcasing: Port Stephens Suicide Prevention Network
          • Showcasing: Youth Complex Mental Health Service
          • Showcasing: The Older Persons Peer Support Program
          • Key themes in Hunter New England and Central Coast
          • Maruung maruung (Good good Deadly), also named Yarn Up Feed Deadly
        5. Nepean Blue Mountains
          • Showcasing: Lithgow High School Wellbeing Centre
          • Showcasing: Cognitive remediation therapy for young people with psychosis
          • Showcasing: Consumer and Carer Council
          • Showcasing: The Resolve Program
          • Showcasing: Therapeutic Environments Capital Works Program at Nepean Hospital
          • Key themes in Nepean Blue Mountains NSW
        6. North Coast
          • Showcasing: Circle of Security
          • Key themes in North Coast NSW
          • Showcasing: Bryon Bay Hearing Voices Group
          • Showcasing: Empowerment through Collaboration – Peer Worker Project
          • Showcasing: New Leaf Group
          • Showcasing: North Coast Collective
        7. Northern Sydney
          • Showcasing: Hearing Voices Recovery Support Group
          • Showcasing: Karrikin Youth mental health service
          • Showcasing: Northern Beaches Suicide Response
          • Showcasing: Plus Social
          • Key themes in Northern Sydney
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          • Showcasing: Murrumbidgee Mental Health and Drug and Alcohol Alliance (the Alliance)
          • Showcasing: Settlement, Engagement and Transition Support Program
          • Showcasing: The Albury Project
        9. South Eastern NSW
          • Showcasing: Active8 Physical Health & Wellbeing Program
          • Showcasing: Next Steps Suicide Prevention Aftercare Service
          • Showcasing: Peer Worker Networks in South Eastern NSW
          • Showcasing: Psychiatry Support Line for GPs
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          • Key themes in South Eastern NSW
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        10. South Western Sydney
          • Showcasing: Arabic Mental Health Promotion Program
          • Showcasing: Integrated Sub-specialty Clinic in Tahmoor
          • Showcasing: No Wrong Door Initiative
          • Showcasing: Pasifika Interagency
          • Showcasing: ReFrame Youth Mental Health Service
          • Showcasing: Strengths Model Implementation in Community Mental Health Services
          • Showcasing: The Macarthur LGBTIQA+ Program
          • Showcasing: The Peer Supported Transfer of Care initiative
          • Key themes in South Western Sydney
        11. Western NSW
          • Showcasing: LikeMind Orange
          • Showcasing: The Grow Group Program
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          • Key themes in Western NSW
          • Showcasing: Connections Program, Broken Hill, Far West NSW
          • Showcasing: Consumer and Carer Action Group
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        12. Western Sydney
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          • Showcasing: Gold Card Clinics
          • Showcasing: Mental Health Acute Assessment Team
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          • Key themes in Western Sydney
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Jason and Ken Zulumovski's stories

Healing and connection"If we fail to strive for community-wide healing, then all future investment in social programs in... more
Jason and Ken Zulumovski's stories
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Alison Hemsley's story

On track for lifelong wellbeing"All students living in residence are in some way positively affected by living with others."... more
Alison Hemsley's story
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Margaret Mulcahy's story

A whole community nurtured"It's about giving them a challenge and saying, 'Don't give up'. We need them to believe in... more
Margaret Mulcahy's story
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Nic's story

Nic Newling is a dedicated advocate for mental health and suicide prevention. He travels around the country speaking about... more
Nic's story
Joe Williams

Joe's story

Joe Williams knows what it’s like to live each day with a huge weight bearing down on his shoulders.During his NRL career,... more
Joe's story
Will and Maddie Gay

Maddie's story

Maddie Gay, 27, is about to hike her way to the top of six mountains, and she’s “equal parts excited and terrified”.She is... more
Maddie's story
Ross Beckley

Ross's story

“I got to about 35, 40 fatalities before I started seeing the cracks in the concrete,” says Ross Beckley.The Central Coast... more
Ross's story
Barry Taylor, SWSLHD

Barry's story

Barry Taylor had no plans to work in suicide prevention; he began his professional life in the 1980s as a youth worker in... more
Barry's story
Scott and Katrina Campbell

Katrina’s story

There was only one week between when Katrina Campbell’s husband, Scott, first saw his GP about mounting stress, and when he... more
Katrina’s story
Ginny Stevens

Ginny's story

Ginny Stevens is determined to improve the physical and mental health of regional Australians, one fitness class at a time... more
Ginny's story

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