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Multimodal Approach to Preventing Suicide in Schools (MAPSS)

The Multimodal Approach to Preventing Suicide in Schools (MAPSS) project aims to reduce suicide risk and increase help-seeking among young people, via an integrated program delivered to year 10 students in school across north-west Melbourne.

The program combines three different suicide prevention approaches:

• safeTALK educational workshops, a 3.5-hour program delivered by qualified facilitators from Lifeline Australia, that teaches students to recognise and respond to the warning signs of suicide in themselves and others;
• screening to identify students at risk of suicide, embedded into the questionnaires used to evaluate the safeTALK program; and
• Reframe IT online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), an 8-module internet-based intervention developed specifically for young Australians at risk of suicide.

Staff at participating schools will also be offered complimentary suicide intervention skills training (ASIST).

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Contact the team at [email protected] for more information.