❓ Hon. Helen Bullock questions the Minister for Mental Health regarding the implementation, monitoring, and effectiveness of Community Action Plans (CAPs) under the Western Australian Suicide Prevention Strategy. The Minister provides details on CAPs, monitoring, and evaluation efforts.
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SUICIDE
PREVENTION STRATEGY — COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN S
569. Hon HELEN BULLOCK to the Minister for Mental Health:
I refer to the answer to question on notice 4779 asked on
Thursday, 10 November 2011.
(1) How many community action plans—CAPs—have
been completed and are being implemented?
(2) Who is monitoring and implementing those CAPs?
(3) What indicators have been developed to measure the
success or failure of the CAPs?
(4) What effect have the CAPs had on the number of suicides
in Western Australia?
(5) How can we be sure that the suicide prevention strategy
is meeting its stated objectives?
PREVENTION STRATEGY — COMMUNITY ACTION PLAN S
569. Hon HELEN BULLOCK to the Minister for Mental Health:
I refer to the answer to question on notice 4779 asked on
Thursday, 10 November 2011.
(1) How many community action plans—CAPs—have
been completed and are being implemented?
(2) Who is monitoring and implementing those CAPs?
(3) What indicators have been developed to measure the
success or failure of the CAPs?
(4) What effect have the CAPs had on the number of suicides
in Western Australia?
(5) How can we be sure that the suicide prevention strategy
is meeting its stated objectives?
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I thank the member for some notice of this question.
(1) As at 20
August 2012, 34 CAPs have been approved, covering over 250 individual
locations, six statewide plans and initiatives for at-risk groups that include
young men, Aboriginal people, and regional and remote communities. Across
Western Australia, 115 organisations have signed an agency pledge to partner
with the strategy and implement suicide prevention activities and training for
their workforce and stakeholders.
(2) The CAPs
are monitored by the Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention—MCSP—and
Centrecare, the non-government organisation contracted to support the MCSP. I
think the member's first question asked how many community action plans
have been completed and implemented. Community action plans are designed to be
ongoing and therefore will not necessarily have been completed. I would hope
that community action plans can be sustained into the future at an unknown
date. It is not a matter of starting and stopping action plans.
Hon
Helen Bullock : What
about the allocation of funding?
Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue. The CAPs are
implemented by community coordinators, hosted by local organisations across the
state, in conjunction with local community stakeholders.
(3) The ''Western Australian Suicide Prevention Strategy 2009–2010:
Everybody's Business'' —the strategy—is
aligned with the national suicide prevention strategy Living is for Everyone
and provides a framework and governance structure to guide initiatives in
Western Australia for the future. The LIFE framework contains six action areas
that guide suicide prevention activities and thereby contribute to a reduction
in suicide and suicide attempts.
(4)–(5)
The strategy has initiated and resourced locally owned CAPs and agency plans
that improve the strength and resilience of communities, expand community
knowledge of suicide, and support capacity building in communities at increased
risk. The CAPs are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect its
own culturally specific needs and are developed through a process of community
engagement with individuals, families, communities and local organisations.
Each plan's aim is to increase the knowledge, skills and capacity of
local communities to recognise people at risk of suicide, to help prevent
suicide and reduce the harm caused by suicide.
The strategy is focused on
sustainability and community engagement, and its successful uptake is evidenced
by the number of local groups engaged and delivering activities in their
region. Edith Cowan University is undertaking research and evaluation to
support the strategy. The strategy outlines specific indicators and measures in
the six key action areas that are in line with the national LIFE framework.
(1) As at 20
August 2012, 34 CAPs have been approved, covering over 250 individual
locations, six statewide plans and initiatives for at-risk groups that include
young men, Aboriginal people, and regional and remote communities. Across
Western Australia, 115 organisations have signed an agency pledge to partner
with the strategy and implement suicide prevention activities and training for
their workforce and stakeholders.
(2) The CAPs
are monitored by the Ministerial Council for Suicide Prevention—MCSP—and
Centrecare, the non-government organisation contracted to support the MCSP. I
think the member's first question asked how many community action plans
have been completed and implemented. Community action plans are designed to be
ongoing and therefore will not necessarily have been completed. I would hope
that community action plans can be sustained into the future at an unknown
date. It is not a matter of starting and stopping action plans.
Hon
Helen Bullock : What
about the allocation of funding?
Hon HELEN MORTON : I will continue. The CAPs are
implemented by community coordinators, hosted by local organisations across the
state, in conjunction with local community stakeholders.
(3) The ''Western Australian Suicide Prevention Strategy 2009–2010:
Everybody's Business'' —the strategy—is
aligned with the national suicide prevention strategy Living is for Everyone
and provides a framework and governance structure to guide initiatives in
Western Australia for the future. The LIFE framework contains six action areas
that guide suicide prevention activities and thereby contribute to a reduction
in suicide and suicide attempts.
(4)–(5)
The strategy has initiated and resourced locally owned CAPs and agency plans
that improve the strength and resilience of communities, expand community
knowledge of suicide, and support capacity building in communities at increased
risk. The CAPs are uniquely created and owned by each community to reflect its
own culturally specific needs and are developed through a process of community
engagement with individuals, families, communities and local organisations.
Each plan's aim is to increase the knowledge, skills and capacity of
local communities to recognise people at risk of suicide, to help prevent
suicide and reduce the harm caused by suicide.
The strategy is focused on
sustainability and community engagement, and its successful uptake is evidenced
by the number of local groups engaged and delivering activities in their
region. Edith Cowan University is undertaking research and evaluation to
support the strategy. The strategy outlines specific indicators and measures in
the six key action areas that are in line with the national LIFE framework.
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