New report from the Children of Parents with a Mental Illness Project
CPMI has announced the release of the draft report "Principles and Actions for Services and People Working with Children Of Parents With A Mental Illness" in electronic format.

This report provides advise and guidelines for those working with the families (particularly the children) of mental health services consumers.

‘OUT OF HOSPITAL, OUT OF MIND!’ A Review of Mental Health Services in Australia – 2003
This is the final report of an extensive review of mental health services in Australia, undertaken by the Mental Health Council of Australia. A summary of the findings is available too.

New report on mental health in Australia
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare released today its new report on mental health services.

"Mental Health Services in Australia 2000-01 describes the characteristics and activity of Australia's mental health care services including ambulatory and residential mental health-related care provided by hospitals, community-based services, general practitioners, private psychiatrists and some disability support services. Information on the broad trends in mental health care is presented in easy-to-use summaries. Detailed statistics show the hospital care of patients admitted with a mental health-related diagnosis, the services, beds, staffing and expenditure in psychiatric hospitals and community-based services, and mental health-related medications prescribed by general practitioners and private psychiatrists."

Crisis. The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention
Link to the table of contents of Volume 24 no 1 2003

Abstracts of articles are available online at the above links. Accessing the fulltext requires a password. If you work within MCSP or ICHR, the print journal is available in the ASPiRE collection. Contact Tracy for more information

Journal of Suicide and Life Threatening Behaviour
Link to the table of contents of Volume 33 No 1

Abstracts of articles are available online at the above links. MCSP has recently taken a subscription to this journal, so access to it should be available for ICHR staff soon. Contact Tracy for more information.

Indigenous Health Resources
The sites in todays update both focus on indigenous health resources.

Indigenous Australian Alcohol and Other Drugs Databases
This site provides access to a variety of resources related to alcohol and drug use among indigenous Australians. The bibliographic database provides access to over 600 books, reports and journal articles. Most items are not available in fulltext format, but can be obtained via document delivery from your local library. Contact Tracy for more information.

The Projects database provides detailed information about over 300 indigenous alcohol and drug projects. Information available includes project summaries, target groups, contact details and in some cases funding information.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
This site provides a great deal of high quality information about indigenous health issues. In particular it provides concise summaries of statistics and other relevant information in areas such as health outcomes, hospitalisation, health expenditure etc.

CommunityLIFE website
The CommunityLIFE website is now operating. CommuityLIFE aims to build community capacity for suicide prevention. The website provides links to a variety of useful information including good practice guidelines and funding sources, as well as links to suicide prevention resources including ASPiRE, SIEC and others.

The Australian Drug Information Network

"ADIN delivers alcohol and drug information to its website visitors who search ADIN’s large collection of quality-assessed websites and databases. Organisations and individuals can search and share relevant information on licit and illicit drug issues."

The databases this site links to provide a wealth of information about drug use, prevention, health etc, both in Australia and globally.