Appendix F – Overarching Program Logic Model

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The model details the logic flow-on effect that national strategies and inputs have as they filter down to programme level outcomes. The logic flow of the model describes the strategies/inputs which provide policy direction to shape programme activities/outputs, which subsequently provide short, medium and long term effects on an individual, community and service system level. As a result, the programme outcomes are highlighted as the final outcome of this model.

The following overarching contextual factors influence the model:

• socioeconomic
• cultural background
• policy context
• related government initiatives (e.g. mental health, family support and protective interventions, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander initiatives, justice, LGBTI supports)
• rurality

Inclusions of each logical step of the model are as follows:

1. Strategies/Inputs

• Living is For Everyone (LIFE) Framework
• National Suicide Prevention Program
• National Suicide Prevention Action Framework
• The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Strategy
• Research into suicide prevention strategies

2. Activities/Outputs

• Provision and consolidation of suicide prevention resources, information and research
• Direct Individual Client Services to high risk groups
• Community Focused Services/Activities for people at risk of suicide
• Workforce Development and Training in recognising and responding to risk for front line workers, families and community members Top of page

3. Effects (short, medium and long term)

Individual

• Increased opportunities for social connection and participation
• Improved access to support and care for people feeling suicidal
• Improved capability to respond at potential tipping points and points of imminent risk
• Individuals experience local services linking effectively, resulting in seamless service delivery

Community

• Increased community awareness of what is needed to prevent suicide
• Improved community strength and resilience
• Increased understanding of whole of community risk and protective factors, and how best to build resilience of communities and individuals
• Improved understanding, skills and capacity of frontline workers, families and carers

Service System

• Improved access to suicide prevention resources and information
• Systematic, long term structural interventions in areas of greatest need
• An environment that encourages and supports individual help seeking
• Increased organisational capacity to respond appropriately to risk of suicide

4. Outcomes

• Improved individual resilience and wellbeing
• Reduced incidence of suicidal behaviour in the groups at highest risk
• Reduced incidence of suicide in the groups at highest risk