Evidence Brief Focus Area 4: Providing accessible, comprehensive and compassionate care

Providing accessible, comprehensive, and compassionate care is about offering timely, tailored interventions to individuals who are experiencing suicidal ideation or engaging in self-harm. Health and mental health care services are necessary for responding to acute distress, but the service system requires a more compassionate, coordinated and integrated approach to linking consumers and their carers with ongoing clinical and non-clinical support services that address underlying drivers of distress (e.g., economic, legal, interpersonal, mental/physical health).