Postvention refers to all interventions and support provided to bereaved or impacted individuals, families, and communities after a suicide loss.
In South-East Melbourne, we coordinate three Postvention Protocol Response Groups (PPRGs). A PPRG comprises key community organisations that collaborate following a suspected suicide to coordinate a timely and appropriate postvention response, with the aim of mitigating impacts across the community and preventing further suicides. These groups primarily respond to incidents impacting young people, informed by evidence that suicide clusters are more likely to affect adolescents and young adults than older populations (Robinson et al., 2016).
The PPRGs we coordinate:
- Southern Melbourne Area (SMA) PPRG, covering Casey, Cardinia, and Greater Dandenong local government areas.
- Frankston Mornington Peninsula (FMP) PPRG, covering Frankston and Mornington Peninsula local government areas.
- Inner-South-East (ISE) Melbourne PPRG, covering Bayside, Kingston, Stonnington, Glen Eira and Port Phillip local government areas.
If you have any questions or become aware of an incident within the regions listed above that may require support and/or a coordinated postvention community response, please contact us via postvention.coordination@jss.org.au or by calling 1800 943 415.
Reference:
Robinson, J., Too, L. S., Pirkis, J., & Spittal, M. J. (2016). Spatial suicide clusters in Australia between 2010 and 2012: a comparison of cluster and non-cluster among young people and adults. BMC Psychiatry, 16(1), 417. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-016-1127-8