Nova Scotia strategic framework to address suicide : Strategic framework to address suicide

In closing, I want to thank the hundreds of people and organizations who have contributed to the development of the Nova Scotia Strategic I t is an honour and a privilege for the Canadian Association for Sui- Framework to Address Suicide. [...] The goal of suicide • The issue of suicide from an upstream perspective; intervention is to offer immediate support to the individual to • The use of multiple strategies; mobilize internal and external resources that will enable her/him • Strategies for working with partners across sectors; to survive until the suicidal intent resolves. [...] The steering committee was chaired by Nova The Nova Scotia Strategic Framework to Address Suicide encompasses Scotia Health Promotion and Protection, and included representatives the promotion, coordination, and support of culturally competent ac- from the mental health services (Department of Health, District Health tivities that will be developed, implemented, and enhanced across the Authorities [...] In 2005, the Department of Health and the Canadian Mental Health Mental Health stakeholders in Nova Scotia are organizing a plan to Association (Nova Scotia Division) worked to monitor how the media encourage the adoption of the report at the federal level, beginning with was reporting on and portraying mental illness and suicide. [...] Appropriate awareness of suicide and suicide attempts by the public education in treatment of affective disorders can reduce suicide ratesii Media Education Research Findings • There is poor evidence supporting • To educate the media about • The effects of encouraging the media the effectiveness of intervention by responsible reporting practices in to adopt more responsible reporting the family ph