Maybe there is a question now as to whether you could have responded better or recognised risk factors better. Perhaps you think your health unit is not responding as well as it could to young people at risk and want to do some in-service training. Perhaps you belong to a gay or lesbian group and want to help support young people with sexual identity problems reaching suicidal proportions. Perhaps you live in a rural community and want to help rural youth survive their adolescence and live full lives. Or, perhaps you are a teacher who wants to help young people learn life skills that will equip them to deal out what life serves up.
Youth suicide is an international problem.
Australia has responded very well to youth suicide. Many organisations and individuals have spent time producing a range of materials that can help all of the issues and problems spelt out above. Thanks to funding, from the Commonwealth, the States and some private bodies, many programs have been developed that answer a variety of needs from gay and lesbian youth to general practitioners. But they are not all the same and some will be more appropriate to your needs than others. Let's take the example of youth suicide in an indigenous community.