With the person at risk
Do:
- Stay calm
- Stay with the person
- Call 000 and ask the police for assistance if the person is behaving aggressively towards you or threatening you with a weapon.
If the person has already harmed themselves:
- Call 000. Ask for an ambulance
- Follow the ambulance consultant’s advice.
If the person has not yet harmed themselves:
- If it is safe to do so, remove any firearms, knives, medications and other poisons, ropes or hoses from the person’s reach
- Try to make a safety contract with the person
- Encourage and support the person to go to a place where they’ll remain safe from harm
- If the person won’t agree to keep safe, call the local public emergency mental health service for assistance.
Don’t:
- Put yourself in any danger while offering support to the suicidal person
- Leave the person alone
- Attempt to wrestle a weapon away from someone as you may put yourself at risk
Other services in Victoria
Crisis Telephone Services
SuicideLine Victoria
Lifeline
Suicide Call Back Service
Kids Helpline
VIC Mental Health Services
Austin & Repatriation Medical Centre
Ballarat Health Service Mental Health Service
Barwon Area Mental Health Service
Bendigo Health Care Group Division on Psychiatry
Broadmeadows Health Service Mental Health Service
Central East Area Mental Health Service
Central East Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams
Clarendon Community Mental Health Centre
Dandenong Area Mental Health Service
Dandenong Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams
Goulburn Valley Area Mental Health Service
Inner South Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams
Inner West Community Teams
Latrobe Community Mental Health Centre
Maroondah Hospital Outer East
Middle South Area Mental Health Service
Middle South Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams
North Eastern Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams
North West Community Teams
Northeast and Border Mental Health Service
Northern Community Teams
Northern Mallee Crisis Assessment and Treatment Teams
Peninsula Health Mental Health Service
South West Healthcare Mental Health Services Division
Sunshine and Melton Community Teams
The Royal Melbourne Hospital Mental Health Service
Wangaratta Community Mental Health
Werribee Mercy Mental Health Program
Wodonga Adult Mental Health