3 August 2015
A Star News Group Publication
Covering Endeavour Hills, Doveton & Hallam
Ice forum heartbreak
Dandy’s elite eight
Property liftout
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Students pull their socks up and put their foot down COMPETING for their second year, Gleneagles students are broadening their minds through the Human Powered Vehicle (HPV) program. The students design, build and race in their vehicles, competing at times against 100 other teams. “From a teaching perspective it is great to be able to step back and become the facilitator in the classroom instead of being the teacher it really allows the student to ‘step up’ to their role,” HPV program co-ordinator Dan Bowen said. Aiden and Jared show their pride in their vehicles. For full story, see Journal News online. 142482 Picture: ROB CAREW
■ Coroner calls for new approach to stop youth suicide...
Suicide cluster By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
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A CORONER has urged the Municipal Association of Victoria (MAV) set up a local government framework for suicide prevention following the “cluster“ of youth suicides in Casey and Cardinia in 2011 and 2012. Coroner Audrey Jamieson’s findings into the spate of youth suicides in Melbourne’s south-east were formally released on Friday at an official Department of Health and Human
Services briefing in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. The findings come after the Coroners Prevention Unit (CPU) studied suspected suicide cases and hospitalisation for self-harm among residents of the City of Casey and Cardinia Shire, aged 24 and under, for the period 2007 to 2013. For suspected suicide, the CPU found that compared to previous years the frequency and rate per 100,000
population was elevated in 2011, meeting the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention’s definition of a “suicide cluster”. Specifically, six suspected suicides were identified among “usual residents“ of the City of Casey in 2011, compared to one in 2010 and three in 2009. Similarly four suspected suicides were identified among usual residents of Cardinia Shire in 2011 compared to
one in 2010, two in 2009, and none in 2008 and 2007. And in the two years after 2011, while the frequency of suspected suicides was found to have reduced slightly, it remained higher than 2009 and 2010 in both the City of Casey and the Cardinia Shire - with four suspected suicides in 2012 and 2013 for Casey, and three in both 2012 and 2013 for Cardinia. Coroner Jamieson recommended
the MAV, through consultation with Casey Council, develop a suicide prevention and postvention response framework, which “has the ability to take into account various socio-demographic and geographic profiles of individual local government areas”. The increase of youth suicides in Casey and Cardinia saw a community summit held in 2012 at the City of Casey chambers, and was investigated by the ABC’s Four Corners.
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