Bridgetown-Greenbushes Suicide Prevention Network

Supporting a community of hope, support, and resilience.

Mental health matters and every life is precious.

The Bridgetown-Greenbushes Suicide Prevention Network is a committed group of local volunteers, mental health professionals, community representatives and the local Shire working together to build capacity in the Bridgetown-Greenbushes region to respond to the needs of people in distress through increased education and training, improved local service awareness and access, and greater mental health promotion throughout our community.

Help is available in Bridgetown-Greenbushes.

If you are experiencing a mental health or suicide crisis, please contact these crisis services or call 000 in an emergency.

  • Lifeline is available 24/7 providing all Australians experiencing emotional distress with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services. LifeLine exists so that no person in Australia has to face their darkest moments alone.

  • Available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.

  • 24/7, no judgement, no pressure - here for anyone who needs to talk.

  • Available 24/7, 13YARN is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander crisis support line.

    How 13 YARN can help prevent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide:

    • Mental health and crisis support destigmatised in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities

    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are self determined

    • All Aboriginal people are healthy and flourishing

    • World leaders in crisis support for Indigenous people

    • Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander design and led

    • Service delivery codesigned with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities

    • Services delivered in partnership with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and organisations

    • Indigenous data sovereignty principles are integrated into program delivery

    • Service delivered by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander crisis and mental health skilled people in communities

  • Suicide Call Back Service is a free nationwide service providing 24/7 phone and online counselling to people affected by suicide.

  • TTY: 1800 720 101

    Monday to Friday: 4.30pm to 8.30am

    Saturday, Sunday & public holidays: 24 hours

    Ruralink is an after-hours telephone service for people in rural and regional Western Australia experiencing mental health crisis. Callers to Rurallink are connected to a trained mental health clinician who can provide them with:

    • mental health assessment

    • crisis support, crisis planning, and brief intervention.

    • mental health system navigation

    • mental health information and advice

    • planned support calls over weekends and overnight to people experiencing a crisis

    • referral to a mental health or emergency service when more than telephone support is required.

    The service is available for:

    • anybody experiencing a mental health crisis who feels they need urgent assistance

    • families or carers of people with a mental illness

    • members of the general public who witness a mental health crisis and need assistance

    • health professionals

    • community welfare service providers.

    Rurallink is an after-hours telephone service for people in rural and regional Western Australia experiencing a mental health crisis.

    Callers to Rurallink are connected to a trained mental health clinician who can provide them with:

    • mental health assessment

    • crisis support, crisis planning and brief intervention

    • mental health system navigation

    • mental health information and advice

    • planned support calls over weekends and overnight to people experiencing a crisis

    • referral to a mental health or emergency service when more than telephone support is required.