The StandBy team is focused on supporting anyone who has known a person who died by suicide or were impacted by suicide at any stage in their life, including: Individuals, Family, Partners and ex-partners, Children and young people, Friends, Witnesses, First responders and others exposed through their profession, Service providers and practitioners, Workplaces, Schools, Sporting clubs, and Social groups. Some of the supports available to you are:
Publicly available mental health information and self-help resources.
Self-help resources and low intensity interventions, including digital mental health, group and peer supports.
A mix of self-help resources, including digital mental health and low intensity interventions. Also psychological services for individuals who require them.
High intensity services including periods of intensive intervention that may involve multidisciplinary support. Where issues may be persistent or episodic without a high level of risk, complexity or disability.
Intensive team-based specialist assessment and intervention (typically state/territory mental health services) with involvement from a range of different mental health professionals including case managers, psychiatrists, allied health workers, and GPs. Includes a high level of risk, disability or complexity.