Suicide Prevention Australia - Continuing improvement in suicide prevention

Why support SPA?

This year alone, around 2000 Australians will take their own life. They will leave behind grieving loved ones, unanswered questions and unfounded guilt.

Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) is committed to preventing this senseless loss of life, and you too can help to save lives by supporting our work. Our Association is the only national umbrella body active in suicide prevention throughout Australia.

There are no easy solutions to tackling suicide prevention, which is why our Association works on many levels throughout the community: through community awareness and advocacy; by collaborating with practitioners, researchers, community agencies and those touched by suicide; sharing and providing access to critical information; lobbying government and other agencies about improving suicide prevention strategies; and by hosting local, regional and national forums, conferences and events.

Everything we do at SPA is focussed on reducing suicide, supporting those who are bereaved by suicide and improving our ability as a community to respond to those at-risk of suicide. Right now, we need your help more than ever! Please read the information below to find out the various ways by which you can support SPA. Your support will help us to provide services, programs and public events that could save lives and will bring comfort to those bereaved by suicide.

Before you decide if you are in a position to support SPA, consider these facts:

• Australia has one of the highest rates of suicide in the developed world;
• Statistically, men are four times more like to take their own life than women;
• Many people bereaved by the suicide of a loved one are themselves at-risk of suicidal ideation;
• Suicide prevention strategies of the recent past prove that preventative strategies work! (The rate of youth suicide in Australia have declined in the wake of the efforts of the National Youth Suicide Strategy)

Please, help prevent suicide and help us spread the word about suicide prevention by offering your support to SPA.

Thank you

Dr Michael Dudley

Chairperson

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Ways you can support SPA

Make a Donation

All donations are used in the development and support of suicide prevention, intervention, and post-vention initiatives in Australia. SPA is a registered charity and endorsed as a deductible gift recipient. All donations are tax deductible. All donations are gratefully acknowledged in our annual review of the year.

Click here for more information on how to donate to SPA.

Give a Gift Membership

By giving a gift membership, you will help us to reach out to and foster growing community action in suicide prevention and response.

Click here for more information on becoming a member of SPA.

Make A Bequest

It is through the generosity of bequests, that SPA has been able to continue to develop its Foundation, a not for profit arm established to support the work and long term financial viability of Suicide Prevention Australia.

Become a Sponsor

Click here to find out more about becoming a sponsor of SPA.

Volunteering at SPA

Click here to find out more about volunteering with SPA.

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Join Our Sponsors

Our sponsors play a vital role in SPA's efforts to prevent suicide in Australia.

As a sponsor you are able to:

• Support participation in SPA’s forums, workshops and conferences for survivors of suicide and those impacted by suicide
• Sponsor an event or help in the development of promotion of suicide prevention strategies
• Promote discussion and exchange of information through SPA’s communication strategies
• Promote international growth and cooperation in suicide prevention through the sponsorship of keynote speakers to SPA conferences and events
• Support recognition of achievement in suicide prevention through the Annual LiFE Award program
• Support research and development in suicide prevention and post vention responses.

Benefits for sponsors include:

• Recognition on the SPA website
• Recognition and opportunity to promote your support at SPA functions and events
• Acknowledgement on any materials or public promotional activities assisted by your support
• Access to all information made available to members and supporters.

Categories of sponsorship:

• Platinum Sponsors $20,000 and greater
• Gold Sponsors $15,000 - $20,000
• Silver Sponsors $10,000 - $15,000
• Bronze Sponsors $5,000 - $10,000

If you would like to become either a sponsor or individual donor to SPA, contact Ryan McGlaughlin, Executive Officer. All donations are tax deductible.

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Top Donors

Suicide Prevention Australia would like to thank the following individuals / organisations as being top donors of SPA in 2009:

• Dr Michael Dudley
• Mental Health First Aid Training and Research Program
• Jules Malseed-Harris
• Tony Aveling & Associates trading as Aveling
• Asia Pacific Mining

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Special Acknowledgement

Suicide Prevention Australia would like to thank the following individuals for their contribution to SPA's projects / goals for 2009:

• Hon Dr Graham Jacobs - Western Australian Minister for Mental Health
• Ms Colleen Krestensen - Assistant Secretary, Suicide Prevention Programs Section, Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Programs Brach, Mental Health and Chronic Disease Division, Department of Health and Ageing
• Chris Killick -Moran - Director, Suicide Prevention Programs Section, Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Programs Brach, Mental Health and Chronic Disease Division, Department of Health and Ageing
• Dr Steve Patchett - Executive Director, Mental Health Division, Department of Health, Western Australia
• Professor Ian Webster
• Alaistair Hope Western Australian State Coroner
• Chris Dawson - Western Australian Deputy Policy Commissioner
• Natasha Mitchell - ABC Radio National Presenter for "All in the Mind"
• Julie McCrossin
• John Mendoza - Chair of the Mental Health Advisory Council to the Federal Minister for Health and Ageing, The Hon Nicola Roxon
• Natalie Gillespie

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Make a Donation

TO DONATE TO SPA'S CHRISTMAS APPEAL PLEASE CLICK HERE.

All donations are used in the development and support of suicide prevention, intervention, and post-vention initiatives in Australia. SPA is a registered charity and endorsed as a deductible gift recipient. All donations are tax deductible. All donations are gratefully acknowledged in our annual review of the year.

Payments can be made using PayPal, cheque, money order, or direct bank deposit. You will be sent a tax receipt in acknowledgement of your payment.

PayPal - If you would like to make a secure donation using PayPal please click here

Cheque / money order - Please post cheque / money order to:

Suicide Prevention Australia, PO Box 729, Leichhardt NSW 2040

Direct Bank Deposit - If you wish to donate using direct bank deposit, please email iurie@suicidepreventionaust.org for the bank details.

Everyday Hero - Donations can also be made to SPA via the Everyday Hero website. Fundraisers can set up their own "hero" page on this website to promote their fundraising efforts, including participation in public fundraising events such as the City2Surf, and direct donations to SPA.

Click Here to support our current World Suicide Prevention Day fund raiser!

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Volunteering at SPA

Volunteering is a very popular activity in Australia. SPA is able to offer an opportunity for you to make a difference and benefit from your volunteer experience with us!

Working with limited resources, SPA needs the support of volunteers to ensure the strategic vision of the organisation is successfully achieved. SPA wants our partnership to be of mutual benefit – utilise your expertise, develop new skills, have different experiences, enter new professional networks and make new friends.

Volunteers will be based in the SPA Office at Leichhardt and asked to commit to at least one day per week. You will be covered by volunteer and personal accident insurance.

SPA is currently looking for volunteers with skills in:

• Administration
• Event management
• Fundraising and marketing
• Media liaison

For more details of available volunteer positions please email info@suicidepreventionaust.org

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