The Spectrum Personality Disorder Service for Victoria enhances the capacity of health professionals to support patients diagnosed, or likely to be diagnosed, with Borderline Personality Disorder, who are at risk of suicide. The initiative has provided training for general practitioners and allied health practitioners and support for families and carers. 

St Kilda Football Club, in partnership with the THRIVE Collective, implements the THRIVE pilot program. THRIVE is a holistic, evidence-based model using the principles of positive psychology to support young people to develop positive mental health and wellbeing. The program enables 10 sport and recreation centres in Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula to use this model to create health promoting environments, disseminate wellbeing resources and implement training in suicide prevention and mental wellbeing. 

Better Place Australia in partnership with Southern Migrant Refugee Centre delivers the Refugee, People Seeking Asylum and CALD community Suicide Prevention Capacity Building Initiative across Greater Dandenong, Casey and Cardinia. These areas are home to a diverse range of new and emerging communities, with almost half of all young people born overseas, including refugees and people seeking asylum communities. This initiative designs and implements a local, community-based approach to suicide prevention, mental health and wellbeing, as well as increasing access to mental health services for CALD, refugee and people seeking asylum communities. It has a focus on expanding previous work and maintaining local activities long-term. 

Activities in the Southern Melbourne Area 

SEMPHN has been listening, learning and working with leaders from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities to reduce the number of suicides among groups and individuals with a higher risk of suicidality. 

Multiple initiatives have been undertaken to build capacity across the service system and in local communities. A range of initiatives in the Southern Melbourne Area include:

• Development of a postvention (after suicide) response protocol to provide dedicated support to individuals bereaved by the loss of a loved one
  
• Establishment of a Refugee and People Seeking Asylum Suicide Prevention Taskforce
  
• Tailored training to address the needs of new and emerging communities 
  
• Building capacity of community-based services to support individuals at risk of suicide and strengthening referral pathways across the service system
  
• Development of a whole-of-community and service system response plan for the South Sudanese community
  
• Partnering with the Black Dog Institute to deliver suicide prevention training for health professionals 
  
• Collaboration with the Way Back Support Service/HOPE Trial in Casey and Cardinia. 

Activities across Frankston-Mornington Peninsula 

A range of initiatives across Frankston-Mornington Peninsula include:

• Quarterly meetings taking place with the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Place Based Suicide Prevention Trial Advisory Committee
• Supported and funded the development of ‘Constant Companion’ wallet cards and website for Chasing Change
• Collaboration with Peninsula Health HOPE Trial
• Collaboration with Hope Assistance Local Tradies (HALT) to engage people in the trades who have a higher risk of suicide
• Building capacity of community-based services to support individuals at risk of suicide and strengthening referral pathways across the service system
• Partnering with the Black Dog Institute to deliver suicide prevention training for health professionals 
• Supporting the advancement of the work of THRIVE (refer above).