Strategies

New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006-2016

The New Zealand Suicide Prevention Strategy 2006–2016 provides a framework to guide and co-ordinate suicide prevention activities across various sectors, and will guide efforts nationally over the next 10 years. The strategy builds on and replaces The New Zealand Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy: ‘In Our Hands’ and ‘Kia Piki te Ora o te Taitamariki’, and draws from an expanded knowledge base of suicide and suicide prevention. 

The inspiration for the strategy is a vision of a society where all people feel they: 

• are valued and nurtured 
• value their own life 
• are supported and strengthened if they experience difficulties 
• do not want to take their lives or harm themselves. 

The overall purposes of the strategy are to: 

• reduce the rate of suicide and suicidal behaviour 
• reduce the harmful effect and impact associated with suicide and suicidal behaviour on families/whänau, friends and the wider community 
• reduce inequalities in suicide and suicidal behaviour