Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Post-suicide Support Service – Analysis of Coronial Data, Thirrili

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Post-suicide Support Service – Analysis of Coronial Data, Thirrili Ltd

HMA was engaged by Thirrili Ltd to develop projections of demand for the supports provided by the National Indigenous Critical Response Service operated by Thirrili Ltd. Key tasks included:

  • development of ethics submissions to the Victorian, National and Western Australian Coroners’ Courts for access to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide data, across all jurisdictions
  • development of secure data warehousing arrangements to ensure appropriate privacy protection
  • data cleansing to identify null records and statistical outliers
  • population-based data manipulation to geospatially identify at-risk cohorts and trends (including analysis at LGA, SA2, ILOC, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people language areas)
  • data analysis to identify regions with increased levels of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide, and clusters of suicides
  • development of recommendation papers outlining the statistical analysis and informing a selection of locations for service establishment in each jurisdiction.

The project commenced in December 2017 and was completed in September 2019.

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