The Aboriginal Health Council of WA has called for greater focus on local, culturally appropriate suicide prevention programs for West Australian youth, as new statistics reveal indigenous Australians are twice as likely to take their own lives.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics Causes of Death 2016 report, released yesterday, showed 2866 people died as a result of suicide last year. Of those, 162 were Aboriginal and Torres...
Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia youth workers will travel to the Kimberley this week as part of a national first project exploring the most significant health issues facing young Aboriginal people in regional WA.
AHCWA staff will host a series of age appropriate workshops with young indigenous people and health workers across the state, including in the Kimberley, Mid-West, Pilbara, Goldfields and South-West be...
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA has welcomed a State Government commitment to fund suicide prevention training in the Kimberley as a step in the right direction.
The government today announced $145,000 would be provided to organisations in the Kimberley to conduct suicide prevention training, with $93,000 of this allocated to train Aboriginal people.
AHCWA Chairperson Michelle Nelson-Cox said the funding was a good first st...
The Aboriginal Health Council of WA said the lack of specific Aboriginal youth mental health and suicide prevention programs was contributing to the high suicide rate among young Aboriginal people in WA.
A survey of AHCWA’s member services around the state found the vast majority said they were concerned by the absence of programs in their community tailored specifically to Aboriginal young people.
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