Networks to strengthen community social capital for suicide prevention in regional Australia: the LifeSpan suicide prevention initiative.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Mental health services are fragmented in Australia leading to a priority being placed on whole-of-community approaches and integration. We describe the LifeSpan suicide prevention intervention developed by the Black Dog Institute that draws upon nine evidence-based community-wide strategies. We examined the suicide prevention Collaborative group at each site. We evaluated how the social capital of the community and service providers changed, and how the brokerage roles of the Collaborative affected integration of effort.

Methods

This was a two phase, explanatory mixed methods study. Participants were LifeSpan Coordinators, The Collaborative and working group members at four LifeSpan sites in New South Wales (three metropolitan/regional, one regional/rural). Quan

SUBMITTER: Long JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8822835 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature