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The Cost of Suicide to Society

The Cost of Suicide report estimates the cost of the 460 suicides and 5095 attempted suicides in 2002 to total $1,381,492,000 - nearly $1.4 billion. Each…

Strategy for Evaluating Local Government Legislation

Local government's roles, responsibilities, powers and accountabilities are defined by legislation. In 2001 and 2002 three new local government Acts were passed: the Local Government Act 2002…

Public Health Depression Initiative: Benchmark Survey

This benchmark survey was undertaken to inform the scoping of a Public Health Depression Initiative. • Interviews were completed with 1301 persons aged 16 years and over,…

National Mental Health Information Strategy

In September 2004 the Ministry of Health prepared a discussion document to review the availability, quality, role and use of information at all levels within the…

The people we serve

Social Work Now, Issue 30, pages 20-26. Every social worker knows that a large number of families come to the notice of Child, Youth and Family whose…