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Growing up Great Network Presentation Thursday, December 12th 2013
Presented by: Joanne Lowe, Executive Director, YSB, Co-Chair of Community Suicide Prevention Network Meghann Darroch, Coordinator, Community Suicide Prevention Network
Academy of Medicine Ottawa
Ashbury College
Bell High School
Bereaved Families of Ottawa
Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Carleton University
Centre Psychosocial
Centretown CHC
CFRA
Champlain CCAC
Champlain LHIN
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
Child and Youth Mental Health Initiative (SSLI)
Children's Aid Society of Ottawa
Canadian Mental Health Association – Ottawa
Coalition of CHRCs in Ottawa
Conseil des écoles publiques de l'Est de l'Ontario
Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est
Crossroads Children's Centre
Distress Centre of Ottawa and Region
Eastern Ontario Youth Justice Agency
Family Services Ottawa
Hopewell
Individual caregiver and youth representatives
Kennedy-Forster Integrated Health Systems
Kids-Can
La Cité collégiale
Max Keeping
Mental Health Services of Renfrew County
Métis Nation of Ontario
Ministry of Children and Youth Services
Ministry of Community and Social Services
Montfort Hospital
Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health
Ottawa Carleton District School Board
Ottawa Catholic School Board
Ottawa Inuit Children's Centre
Ottawa Police Services
Ottawa Public Health
Ottawa Suicide Prevention Coalition
Parents’ Lifelines of Eastern Ontario
Roberts/Smart Centre
South-East Ottawa CHC
The Royal
United Way Ottawa
University of Ottawa
Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health
West Carleton Family Health Team
Western Ottawa CRC
Youth Net
Youth Services Bureau
Vision Statement: A suicide safe community for children and youth in the greater Ottawa area
Mission: The Network brings key people and organizations together to develop suicide prevention, intervention and postvention strategies that are evidence-informed and that increase accessibility and effectiveness of services for youth and their families.
Share knowledge and expertise, providing a structure for collaboration in suicide prevention, intervention and postvention in Ottawa.
Work together to develop suicide prevention strategies relating to community
education and awareness as well as pathways to clinical care.
Focus on initiatives that are evidence informed and that consider our community's unique strengths and challenges, operating at the system level to support organizational partnerships and initiatives that increase effectiveness and accessibility of services for youth and families.
Build on existing community collaborations and supports new ones, reaching out to multiple sectors to bring people together to overcome common challenges and issues.
Key areas of focus include advocacy and policy development, research and evaluation, education and community awareness and improving pathways to care.
Members of the Network are people with lived experiences and the organizations that support them; all levels of government, funding bodies and the business sector; community and religious groups; and members of the media.
2nd leading cause of death among 10-24 yr olds in Canada
Suicide accounts for over 20% of all deaths for youth between the ages of 15 – 24 in Canada
The estimated number of 15 – 24 year olds in the Champlain region who have had suicidal thoughts in the past 12 months is a staggering 9200 youth.
Rates of emergency room (ER) visits for self-harm have been significantly higher in Ottawa than in Ontario.
On average (2005-2009), 63 suicides per year in Ottawa, 10% occur in children and youth aged 10-24 years.
Youth suicides have averaged between 5 and 8 a year from 2000-2009.
Source: Source: IntelliHEALTH ONTARIO, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Analyzed by Willmore J, Ottawa Public Health, August 2013.
Ontario
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Registrar
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Source: Willmore, J.,Ottawa Public Health, 2013
2 suicides in Ottawa 2010/11
Extensive media coverage, very public memorial and increased media coverage relating to bullying, mental health, and suicide.
Led to outcry, people wanted to come together to do more at a systemic level to prevent suicide.
Agreed first 3 years of CSPN would focus on youth suicide (currently in year 2 of youth focus).
Community Suicide
Prevention Network
Research Action
Area
Education,
Awareness &
Training Action Area
Pathways to Care
Action Area
Steering Committee
(Advocacy and Policy
Action Area)
The first work done by the Network was:
1) What are we all doing ? Mapping exercise 2) What do we need to focus on? Focus groups 3) Know What to do Guide 4) Parent Navigation 5) Research 6) Looking at where we had existing energy and
programs that could be built upon- LGBTQ youth gatekeeper program
7) Applying Implementation Science Framework 8) Wilder Collaborative Evaluation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpTxYPxrTt8&feature=youtu.be
Received funding from United Way & Champlain LHIN
Softly launched in September, 2012
Within first 10 months of service, this helpline has served:
274 unique clients
225 unidentified clients
681 points of contact (emails and phone)
facilitated 35 support groups that
engaged 176 new participants.
Sources of Strength Proposal
Already established formal partnership with Egale, OFS, CMHA, OCDSB, YSB to lead
3 phases to program:
1. safeTALK training for teachers, parents and youth within the selected schools
2. GLBTTQ training to promote understanding of the negative impact of homophobia on all of the youth in the school.
3. Implement a peer to peer, evidence-based suicide prevention program called Sources of Strength.
First 2 schools to begin Feb 2014: Glebe Collegiate Institute & West
Carleton Secondary School
Report to Community – December 6, 2013
Knowledge Transfer Exchange Event – January 16th 2014
Created an online presence
Producing a ‘status report’ that highlights key research questions, evidence and recommendations related to youth and suicide – April 2014
High Risk Assessment Tool
Collaborative Research Project – Suicide Monitoring Program and Applying Research to Practice Through Early Intervention
Youth Engagement
Transitional Aged Youth (in development)
Ministry’s Youth Suicide Prevention Plan
@OttPrevention
Preventing Suicide
www.communitysuicidepreventionnetwork.wordpress.com
Questions?
For further information contact:
Meghann Darroch
Coordinator, Community Suicide Prevention Network
613-729-0577 ext. 1252
