As announced in the 2024-25 Budget, the National Mental Health Commission and the National Suicide Prevention Office transferred into the Department of Health and Aged Care as a non-statutory office on 30 September 2024.
The NSPO provides robust, evidence-based insights and advice to ensure an effective suicide prevention system by:
- Collaborating with lived experience communities, as well as across governments, portfolios and sectors to promote a social determinants approach to suicide prevention;
- Publicly reporting on the state of suicide prevention in Australia, monitoring the impact of government action and identifying priorities for further reform; and
- Advising governments on strategic responses that will improve suicide prevention, including identifying policy settings to meaningfully impact future prevalence of suicidal distress.
The NSPO began by developing the National Suicide Prevention Strategy, which now informs our ongoing work program. The NSPO is currently developing a National Suicide Prevention Outcomes Framework for monitoring and reporting progress in suicide prevention.
The work of the NSPO is informed by people with lived and living experience of suicide and draws on the rich combined knowledge and expertise of individuals, communities, service providers, advocates, researchers and government agencies across portfolios and jurisdictions.
You can get in touch with the National Suicide Prevention Office by emailing nspo@nspo.gov.au