Suicide Prevention

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) and Murrumbidgee Local Health District (MLHD) have today launched the 2025–2030 Murrumbidgee Mental Health, Suicide Prevention and Alcohol and Other Drugs Regional Plan, setting a clear roadmap for improving mental health and wellbeing outcomes over the next five years.

Earlier this year, MPHN partnered with Well Aware Training to deliver six free suicide prevention workshops across the Murrumbidgee region. The sessions gave community members practical skills to recognise the signs of suicide, start important conversations, and connect people to support. 

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) has today launched a new grants program offering up to $50,000 for community-led initiatives that support mental wellbeing and suicide prevention in the region. 

A new website featuring tools to support people with lived and living experience of mental health, suicide and alcohol and other drug challenges has been launched today, as part of the ten-year anniversary celebrations for the Murrumbidgee Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol (MMHDA) Alliance.

Would you know how to recognise if someone you know was having thoughts of suicide? MPHN is offering free face-to-face suicide prevention training across the Riverina.

This World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September), Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network is urging Murrumbidgee residents to rethink how we approach and discuss suicide. 

Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is pleased to announce the availability of funding dedicated to community groups focusing on suicide prevention.

In support of World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September 2023, Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network (MPHN) is raising awareness of the role we all share in supporting people experiencing suicidal crisis.

Four local Murrumbidgee residents have joined with the Murrumbidgee Local Response Group to encourage community members who are in crisis to STOP and pick up the phone as part of a new suicide prevention campaign.

This World Suicide Prevention Day (September 10), it’s timely to introduce four local organisations who are working together to ensure communities are aware of services and to support a timely and coordinated response for individuals and communities following a suicide or critical event in the Murrumbidgee region.

Almost 4,000 Murrumbidgee locals are now equipped to help prevent suicide, thanks to the LifeSpan Murrumbidgee suicide prevention program.

Deputy Prime Minister and Federal Member for Riverina, The Hon Michael McCormack MP, together with the region’s first responders, mental health agencies, local government representatives, and the Department of Education, today signed a formal Statement of Commitment to providing a coordinated approach to suicide prevention and postvention supports across the Murrumbidgee region.

Organisations and community groups through the Murrumbidgee now have access to mental health and suicide prevention resources to help them build local awareness, community capacity and reduce stigma.

Today in Young, Deputy Prime Minister and Member for Riverina Michael McCormack formally launched a new suicide prevention initiative.

Minister for Rural Health, Senator Bridget McKenzie, and Federal Member for Riverina Michael McCormack MP, today launched The Way Back at the Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network’s head office in Wagga Wagga. 

Additional support for people after a suicide attempt will now be available to people living in Murrumbidgee communities with an $800,000-a-year investment from MPHN. 

MPHN has funding, provided by the Commonwealth Government, to invest in a new approach to suicide prevention, focusing on evidence and community based suicide prevention activities. 

Australia’s largest integrated suicide prevention program aims to reduce suicide deaths by 20% and suicide attempts by 30%.