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Evaluation of suicide prevention activities

Appendices

Page last updated: January 2014

Appendices are provided as follows:

  • Appendix A – Project Profiles
  • Appendix B – Key Evaluation Questions
  • Appendix C – The Minimum Data Set – Values and Collection Points
  • Appendix D – Project Survey
  • Appendix E – NSPP Stage 2 Literature Review
  • Appendix F – Overarching Program Logic Model
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  • Table of contents
  • 1 Executive summary
    • 1.1 Introduction and background
    • 1.2 Objectives of the evaluation
    • 1.3 Methods
    • 1.4 Caveats and limitations
    • 1.5 Summary of findings
    • 1.6 Opportunities for program improvement
    • 1.7 Conclusions
  • 2 Introduction
  • 3 Background and policy context
    • 3.1 Suicide in Australia
    • 3.2 Policy milestones
    • 3.3 National Suicide Prevention Strategy
    • 3.4 Senate Community Affairs References Committee Inquiry into Suicide in Australia
    • 3.5 Taking Action to Tackle Suicide
    • 3.6 Implementation of the 2011 Delivering National Mental Health Reform package
    • 3.7 Formation of the National Mental Health Commission and publication of its first Report Card
    • 3.8 Release of the Roadmap for National Mental Health Reform 2012-2022
    • 3.9 Development of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Strategy
    • 3.10 State/territory level suicide prevention policies
    • 3.11 Scope, findings and learnings from previous NSPS/ NSPP evaluations
    • 3.12 Summary of policy context
  • 4 Methods
    • 4.1 Background and data sources
    • 4.2 Pre-existing project documentation/data
    • 4.3 Documentation/data quality: implications
    • 4.4 Project Survey
    • 4.5 Stage 2 literature review
    • 4.6 Stakeholder consultations
    • 4.7 Desktop review of ATAPS Suicide Prevention service initiative and MindMatters initiative evaluations
    • 4.8 Minimum Data Set
    • 4.9 Data analysis protocols
    • 4.10 Evaluability issues
  • 5 Profile of projects
    • 5.1 Overview
    • 5.2 Project approaches
    • 5.3 Service delivery mechanisms
    • 5.4 Target groups
    • 5.5 LIFE Action Areas
    • 5.6 Geographical reach of projects
    • 5.7 Strategies and activities
    • 5.8 Stability or change over time
    • 5.9 Community acceptance
    • 5.10 Collaboration
    • 5.11 Project funding and workforce resources
    • 5.12 Summary profile
  • 6 Snapshot of Project Activity: October 2012 to March 2013
    • 6.1 Scope of MDS data
    • 6.2 Data quality
    • 6.3 Program level data
    • 6.4 Individual level contact or activity data
    • 6.5 Group level activities
    • 6.6 Target group analysis
    • 6.7 Summary of key findings
  • 7 Findings: Appropriateness
    • 7.1 Mix of projects
    • 7.2 Equity of NSPP funding across regions
    • 7.3 The evidence base for suicide prevention
    • 7.4 Higher risk groups
    • 7.5 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations
    • 7.6 Universal approaches
    • 7.7 Selective approaches
    • 7.8 Indicated approaches
    • 7.9 Approaches which may be harmful
    • 7.10 Use of research and evidence in project design and implementation
    • 7.11 Summary of key findings
  • 8 Findings: Effectiveness – outcomes and achievements
    • 8.1 Need for outcome measures
    • 8.2 Challenges of measuring outcomes for suicide prevention
    • 8.3 Outcome measurement by NSPP projects
    • 8.4 Achievement of project goals and objectives
    • 8.5 Self-reported LIFE Action Area achievements
    • 8.6 Unintended outcomes
    • 8.7 Summary of key findings
  • 9 Findings: Effectiveness – enablers and barriers
    • 9.1 Enablers
    • 9.2 Barriers and challenges
    • 9.3 Improving effectiveness
    • 9.4 Summary of key findings
  • 10 Findings: Efficiency
    • 10.1 Measuring efficiency in the suicide prevention context
    • 10.2 Cost efficiency of projects
    • 10.3 Sustainability of projects
    • 10.4 Program administration
    • 10.5 DoHA administrators' perspectives of NSPP program efficiency
    • 10.6 Summary of key findings
  • 11 Positioning the NSPP in Australia's Suicide Prevention Efforts
    • 11.1 Introduction
    • 11.2 The spectrum of suicide prevention activities in Australia
    • 11.3 ATAPS Suicide Prevention service initiative
    • 11.4 MindMatters
    • 11.5 Integration and synergies between the NSPP and other suicide prevention activities
    • 11.6 Gaps and opportunities in national suicide prevention efforts
    • 11.7 Consistency with the Australian Government Mental Health Reform agenda
    • 11.8 Potential consequences of not continuing the NSPP
    • 11.9 Summary of key findings
  • 12 Improving Outcome Measurement
    • 12.1 Conceptualising outcome measurement
    • 12.2 Where to start
    • 12.3 What, how and when to measure outcomes
    • 12.4 Barriers to outcome measurement in the NSPP
    • 12.5 Summary of possible improvements
  • 13 Summary of Findings, Suggested Program improvements and Conclusions
    • 13.1 Evaluation overview
    • 13.2 Appropriateness
    • 13.3 Effectiveness
    • 13.4 Efficiency
    • 13.5 Positioning the NSPP in Australia's suicide prevention efforts
    • 13.6 Opportunities for program improvement
    • 13.7 Conclusions
    • 13.8 Concluding observations
  • Appendices
    • Appendix A – Project Profiles
      • Active Life Enhancing Intervention (ALIVE) Program
      • Active Response Bereavement Outreach Program (ARBOR)
      • Building Bridges
      • Burdekin Mental Health Foundation
      • CALD Community Connections
      • Community Broadcasting Suicide Prevention Project
      • Community Connections Toowoomba
      • Community Connections
      • Comprehensive Suicide Prevention Service
      • Deadly Alive
      • Expanded Horizons
      • Farm Link
      • Healing Through the Map
      • HOPE - SRA
      • Hope for Life
      • Incolink
      • Koori Kids Wellbeing Program
      • LIFE Communications
      • LifeForce
      • Living Beyond Suicide
      • Men's Health Information and Resource Centre (MHIRC) – "The Shed"
      • Mental Illness and Bereavement Project
      • Mindframe Education and Training Program
      • MindOUT!
      • National Centre of Excellence in Suicide Prevention
      • National Suicide Call Back Service
      • NEXUS
      • OzHelp Region and National Expansion Project
      • Peer Support Australia
      • Post Discharge Care from Hospital Emergency Departments
      • R U OK? Day
      • RAW - Rural Alive and Well Program
      • ReachOut! Pro Website
      • REAL4Mii Northern Territory
      • REAL4Mii Pilbara
      • Response to Youth Suicide in Greater Geelong
      • SANE Media Centre & StigmaWatch
      • SPA Strategic Partnership
      • StandBy ACT
      • StandBy Brisbane
      • StandBy Response Service
      • Strength to Strength Suicide Prevention Resources
      • Suicide Story Train the Trainer
      • Support After Suicide
      • Sustainable Personal Development for Aboriginal Men
      • The Strength Within
      • WHO START Project
      • Workplace Training and Education
      • Yiriman Project
    • Appendix B – Key Evaluation Questions
    • Appendix C – The Minimum Data Set – Values and Collection Points
    • Appendix D – NSPP Evaluation: Survey for projects 2006-13
    • Appendix E – NSPP Stage 2 Literature Review
      • 1 Introduction and background
      • 2 Methods
      • 3 Results
      • 4 Discussion
      • 5 Conclusions
      • 6 References
    • Appendix F – Overarching Program Logic Model

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