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“Big Data and Mobile Saved My Life”

w w w . i n s t i n c t a n d r e a s o n . c o m

4 December 2014

Suicide – the problem and the solution

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• globally, there is a suicide every 40 seconds and most are preventable

• every year in Australia:

• 370,000 people think about suicide

• 65,000 people attempt suicide

• 2,500 take their own lives

• suicide is a problem and suicide is a solution – what’s the real problem?

• time for big ideas, breakthrough thinking, new solutions

Remember you are never alone:

Lifeline 13 11 14

lifeline.org.au

Suicide Call Back Service

1300 65 94 67

suicidecallbackservice.org.au

beyondblue

1300 22 46 36

Mensline Australia 1300 78 99 78

mensline.org.au

RSA Big Ideas for Suicide Prevention

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1. Listen Hear!

2. Digital Life Saving

3. Tracking for Life

4. National Research Plan

5. Life at Work

6. Young Life

7. No Life Sentence

8. Rural Life in Mind

9. Indigenous Life

10. Eating for Life • Global conversation via the RSA Fellowship , LinkedIn Groups,

and a dedicated online board, involving 500 people • Involving those ‘in the system’ and those not ‘in the system’


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1. Listen Hear!




5. Life at Work

6. Young Life

7. No Life Sentence


9. Indigenous Life

10. Eating for Life • Life at Work embraces getting young people into work, long-

term unemployed people back into work, mentally healthy work environments, and sustainable communities at work

Transforming workplace mental health – Heads Up

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• Instinct and Reason choice model with no prompting shows a mentally healthy workplace is second only to pay in driving job choices

Big Ideas for Suicide Prevention - a National Research Plan

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1. Listen Hear!




5. Life at Work

6. Young Life

7. No Life Sentence


9. Indigenous Life

10. Eating for Life • National Research Plan to pool our current knowledge of the

issues and solutions and to build an evidence-based plan for suicide prevention, including priorities for funding.

Collective Impact model for Suicide Prevention

& the National Research Action Plan

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Common agenda

Shared goals & measures

Common reporting

framework

Mutually reinforcing activities

Continuous communication

Backbone organisation

Evidence-based goal-setting & goal-achieving

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• first set a goal

• then focus on the goal…

• …halving the number of suicides and suicide attempts within 10 years

• work out how to get everyone staying focused on the goal

• ask ‘how will we achieve our goal?’

• monitor how we are doing in achieving our goal

• evaluate what we are doing to achieve our goal

• keep asking ‘what do we need to know to be able to achieve that goal?’

• information not related to our goal is an obstacle to achieving our goal!

• priorities and focus are the keys to achieving our goal

Desired state planning and change leadership

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Baseline

Latest

Snapshot

Finishing Line

Current

State

Desired

State

Pull factor

Push factor

Engagement factor

National Research Plan for Suicide Prevention

- engagement process

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Content Process Principles Plans Priorities

Open the Diamond to explore

process, people, principles,

potential content, partnerships,

shared goals, potential barriers,

pooling of resources

Close the Diamond to converge

on content, jointly draft plans,

and all agree on priorities

Separate research & engagement

with key stakeholder groups – researchers,

service providers, policymakers & advocates,

funders, and people with lived experience.

Integrated consultation &

engagement with all stakeholder groups

and individuals, including open

opportunity to comment

National Research Action Plan – workshops & forums

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National Research Action Plan – workshops framework

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Reducing suicides and

suicide attempts by 50% in 10

years

National Research

Action Plan

Looking forward – and taking up the

challenge

Looking sideways – and taking

notice

Looking back – and taking stock

Looking forward –

2024

Looking forward –

September 2015

Creating a better future – the journey of hope

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Imagine it is WSPD 10 Sept 2015…

1. What will be in the National Research Action Plan document?

2. What will the key principles be guiding research/research funding?

3. What will the key research priorities be?

4. What else would you expect to be in the National Research Action Plan document – key action points, recommendations, chapter headings?

5. What won’t be in it or won’t be prioritised?

Imagine it is 2024…

1. What will success look like when we have achieved our goal of halving the number of suicides & suicide attempts?

2. What does the world of suicide prevention, intervention and postvention look like in 10 years’ time?

3. What does the world of suicide prevention research & evaluation look like in 10 years’ time?

4. How did we get here?

5. What target are we setting now – and why?

Being prepared to be helped

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Q1 The Prime Minister says “we want to help halve the number of

suicides and suicide attempts – what specifically can we do to help

you achieve that goal?”

WHAT ANSWER WOULD YOU GIVE?

Q2 A corporate funder or philanthropist says “we want to fund an

initiative to help halve the numbers of suicides and suicide attempts –

what specifically can we do to help you achieve that goal?”

WHAT ANSWER WOULD YOU GIVE?


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1. Listen Hear!




5. Life at Work

6. Young Life

7. No Life Sentence


9. Indigenous Life

10. Eating for Life • Tracking for Life emerged as a transformational change

initiative because half of those who take their own lives are already ‘in the system’ so there is potential for permission-based tracking & support services to have a significant impact.


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1. Listen Hear!




5. Life at Work

6. Young Life

7. No Life Sentence


9. Indigenous Life

10. Eating for Life

• Digital Life Saving emerged as another transformational change initiative because we know we can identify people at risk from their publicly available conversations and get appropriate messages of support to them

• It was one of the winners in the 2014 TEDxSydney Fast Ideas competition for the “best idea worth spreading”.

Digital Life Saving – an idea worth spreading!

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• the modern day equivalent of the telephone helpline introduced in the UK in 1953 (Samaritans) and Australia in 1963 (Lifeline)

• applying what we know about Big Data, data science, social media monitoring, digital marketing, one-to-one mobile, etc communication to the problem of suicide prevention

• applying what we know about commercial marketing to social marketing – and learn in reverse too

• applying what we know about scientific innovation to social innovation – and learn in reverse too

• addressing the technical challenge first – proving that it can be done

• then addressing the other issues – ethical, logistical, political, appropriate & effective management, sustainable 24/7

• researching key messages and ways of communicating the message – help not harm

• collaborate don’t compete – find relevant partners

• make it happen – be relentlessly committed to implementation

Transformation through technology – latest developments…and how can you help?

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Keeping the conversation going – and enlisting the world’s leaders!

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Remember

– you are never alone!

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Lifeline

13 11 14

lifeline.org.au

Suicide Call Back Service

1300 65 94 67

suicidecallbackservice.org.au

beyondblue

1300 22 46 36

Mensline Australia

1300 78 99 78

mensline.org.au

For further information please contact:

Level 1, 420 Elizabeth Street Surry Hills NSW 2010

t: +61 (0) 2 9283 2233

e: [email protected]

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