Rural Suicide Prevention Task Forces will make sure people know where to get help. These Taskforces are groups made up of local community members, mental health and other workers who come together to assist in suicide prevention in their local area. As well as general prevention, swift end sensitive management of increases in suicides in local communities is vitally important. This response will now occur when needed across NSW guided by a support kit for local communities. This type of approach will assist in the recovery and well-being of those communities and help prevent more suicides.
Several programs are already underway.
Young people learn to understand themselves better, how to relate to others, how to cope generally in daily life with better skills to solve problems and resolve conflicts. At Casula Public School a group of dedicated senior citizens have established Grandfriends to help improve communication across generations by sharing their expertise and knowledge with children at their school. Kingsgrove North High School has developed a critical incident management policy to respond to critical incidents in an appropriate manner, including education about grief and loss.