Suicide rates for prisoners should shame us, it won’t, but it should
Former prisoners are dying after release — and the system designed to rehabilitate them appears to look away.
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Dave Macpherson: World Suicide Prevention Day – PM sidelines Health Minister and announces suicide prevention action
Forgive my cynicism, but perhaps not that of the many social media commenters whose families have come through the agony of losing a loved one, and not only received no support from officialdom, but very often opposition from the Ministry of Health and their DHBs.
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Dave Macpherson: Waikato DHB changes course and agrees to mediation with Nicky Stevens’ family
After refusing to hold further discussions with Nicky Stevens’ whanau six months ago, the Waikato DHB – under the new leadership of Commissioner Karen Poutasi – has changed tack and agreed to participate in mediation talks with his family.
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Family three times denied support by DHB calls for Govt to bring in legal support for suicide bereaved families
The parents of Nicky Stevens, who died in 2015 while in the legal care of Waikato DHB’s mental health unit,…
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Health Minister to meet Nicky Stevens family to discuss damning Coroner’s rulings
The family of 21-year-old Nicky Stevens who died while in the care of the Waikato DHB in 2015 say they…
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Dave Macpherson: Parents of Nicky Stevens call for stronger suicide reduction target than Inquiry suggests
“What we now want is for mental health to no longer be a political football, and for all the Parliamentary parties to get their heads together around a mental health improvement programme that all of them will sign up to going into the future.”
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GUEST BLOG: Vee Hoy – New Zealand Suicide, The Whispered Killer
She won’t be right mate, unless we start making it right, open up to one another, ask questions to our government about what they are doing, ask questions of ourselves as to what we can be doing.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Hypocrisy Alert: Logan Paul & Suicide
Calling out the ‘maverick’ Logan Paul for his coverage of a Japanese suicide below Mt Fuji is hypocrisy.
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Arresting suicide victims
How the hell does arresting a suicide victim help that person? How cruel have we become under 9 years of National that arresting suicide victims is even considered a positive step forward?
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Public Statement on call by Prof Annette Beautrais for silence on Suicide
The attitude of Professor Annette Beautrais, of Canterbury University, and a suicide prevention co-ordinator for the South Canterbury DHB, is one of the primary reasons why it has been so hard to change the culture of silence about suicide, where news of it, and issues about it are swept under the carpet.