Suicide Prevention Australia - Continuing improvement in suicide prevention

Supporting SPA

There are a number of ways in which individuals and organisations can contribute to SPA as it contributes to advancing and promoting the work being done to reduce the incidence of suicide in Australia and to increase our ability to respond effectively to those impacted by suicide or suicidal ideation.

Make a Donation

SPA is a registered charity and endorsed as a deductible gift recipient. All donations are tax deductible. All donations are used in the development and support of suicide prevention, intervention, and post-vention initiatives in Australia.

You can make a donation online by clicking the link below, by post or telephone credit card payment. All donations are gratefully acknowledged in our annual review of the year.

Give a Gift Membership

By giving a gift membership, you will help us to reach out to and foster growing community action in suicide prevention and response.

Gift memberships are easily done online, by post or telephone credit card payment.

Make A Bequest

It is through the generosity of bequests, that SPA has been able to continue to develop its Foundation, a not for profit arm established to support the work and long term financial viability of Suicide Prevention Australia.

Join Our Sponsors

SPA is grateful for the positive individual and corporate support that it has received. The National Forum on Men and Suicide has received sponsorship from the Australian Department of Health and Ageing, Mazda Foundation, Cbus Superannuation Fund, beyondblue and Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaCSIA).

As a sponsor you are able to:

• Support participation in SPA’s forums, workshops and conferences for survivors of suicide and those impacted by suicide
• Sponsor an event or help in the development of promotion of suicide prevention strategies
• Promote discussion and exchange of information through SPA’s communication strategies
• Promote international growth and cooperation in suicide prevention through the sponsorship of keynote speakers to SPA conferences and events
• Support recognition of achievement in suicide prevention through the Annual LiFE Award program
• Support research and development in suicide prevention and post vention responses.

Benefits for sponsors include:

• Recognition on the SPA website
• Recognition and opportunity to promote your support at SPA functions and events
• Acknowledgement on any materials or public promotional activities assisted by your support
• Access to all information made available to members and supporters.

Recognising our sponsors…

• Platinum Sponsors $20,000 and greater
• Gold Sponsors $15,000 - $20,000
• Silver Sponsors $10,000 - $15,000
• Bronze Sponsors $5,000 - $10,000

If you would like to become either a sponsor or individual donor to SPA, contact Ryan McGlaughlin, Executive Officer.

All donations are tax deductible.

Volunteering at SPA

Volunteering is a very popular activity in Australia. SPA is able to offer an opportunity for you to make a difference and benefit from your volunteer experience with us!

Working with limited resources, SPA needs the support of volunteers to ensure the strategic vision of the organisation is successfully achieved. SPA wants our partnership to be of mutual benefit – utilise your expertise, develop new skills, have different experiences, enter new professional networks and make new friends.

Volunteers will be based in the SPA Office at Leichhardt and asked to commit to at least one day per week. You will be covered by volunteer and personal accident insurance. For details of volunteer positions please email tony@suicidepreventionaust.org

Supporters / Donors

Suicide Prevention Australia would like to thank the following individuals / organisations as being top doners of SPA:

• John Toohey Chambers
• Optiver Derivatives Trading

Special Acknowledgement

Suicide Prevention Australia would like to thank the following individuals for their contribution to SPA's projects / goals for 2007:

• Senator the Honourable Brett Mason - Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Mental Health
• The Honourable Lisa Neville MP - Victorian Minister for Mental Health
• Natasha Mitchell - ABC Radio National presenter for "All in the Mind"
• Julie McCrossin - Former radio and televsion personality / MC / Facilitator
• Graeme Johnstone - Victorian State Coroner
• Timmy Duggen - Former National Basketball league star and founder of the Hoops 4 Health program

You can help prevent suicide...!!!

This year alone, around 2000 Australians will take their own life. They will leave behind grieving loved ones, unanswered questions and unfounded guilt.

Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) is committed to preventing this senseless loss of life, and you too can help to save lives by supporting our work. Our Association is the only national umbrella body active in suicide prevention throughout Australia.

There are no easy solutions to tackling suicide prevention, which is why our Association works on many levels throughout the community.

Through community awareness and advocacy …by collaborating with practitioners, researchers, community agencies and those touched by suicide…sharing and providing access to critical information…lobbying government and other agencies about improving suicide prevention strategies…and hosting local, regional and national forums, conferences and events.

Everything we do at SPA is focussed on reducing suicide, supporting those who are bereaved by suicide and improving our ability as a community to respond to those at-risk of suicide. Right now, we need your help more than ever!

Until late last year, our small staff team worked out of a rent-free office in Leichhardt. Now, the cost of renting office space at commercial rates is placing enormous pressure on our resources.

By donating what you can to this Appeal, you will help to fund services, programs and public events that could save lives…and will bring comfort to those bereaved by suicide.

Before you consider if you are in a position to make a donation, consider these facts:

• Australia has one of the highest rates of suicide in the developed world;
• Statistically, men are four times more like to take their own life than women;
• Many people bereaved by the suicide of a loved one are themselves at-risk of suicidal ideation;
• Suicide prevention strategies of the recent past prove that preventative strategies work! (The rate of youth suicide in Australia have declined in the wake of the efforts of the National Youth Suicide Strategy.)

Please, help prevent suicide and help us spread the word about suicide prevention by donating as generously as you can to this Appeal.

Your tax-deductible donation has the power to save lives!

Thank you

Dr Michael Dudley - Chairperson Suicide Prevention Australia

If you are in a position to donate office space in or around the Sydney CBD, we would love to hear from you!

Please phone Ryan McGlaughlin, SPA Executive Officer, on 02 9568 3111 or 0425 3828 00 for a confidential discussion.