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The Resilience Hub consists of an online resource site that contains articles, videos, links, an online shop and a physical hub offering personalised information, support, counselling services and library.

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Loss and Grief

The thoughts, feelings and reactions we experience, when we’re faced with change and loss, whatever our age, are known as grief.

Relationships

Relationships, including romantic relationships, can bring us deep joy and connection and they take work.

Family Change

Families are constantly changing.

LGBTQI+

Skylight receives many requests for information and support from young people, whānau and people working with them, around LGBTQI+ issues.

Illness and Disability

There may be grief associated with the loss of health that can come, with an illness and disability.

Abuse and Violence

Violence is the use of physical harm, or the threat of harm. When this violence causes fear in another person, it becomes an abusive action.

Resilience

Is the ability to bounce back when we face tough times, helping us to cope.

Disaster

Supporting yourself, your whānau, and others after a disaster.

Trauma

Trauma is a response to either a one-time event – such as an earthquake – or to many adverse experiences over time – such as Domestic Violence.

Death and Dying

The death or anticipated death of someone important to you, can cause great grief and sadness, whatever the cause of death.

Suicide

When someone ends their own life, we say they have died by suicide.

Behaviour

Behaviour in children and young people may indicate that something is “going on”, that they don’t feel equipped to manage. Sometimes that can be challenging.

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Suicide Prevention Web Series

Skylight partnered with Film for Change Aotearoa and Te Puni Kōkiri to make a web series for suicide prevention focusing on building resilience by rangatahi for rangatahi to help other rangatahi develop resilience and contribute towards suicide prevention.

It features rangatahi Māori including takatāpui sharing stories of how they have survived suicide or had a personal loss of a friend or whānau member to suicide, and what helps them get through the tough times.

Aotearoa has the highest rate of rangatahi suicide in the world. More than one third of the 130 Māori suicides recorded for 2016/17 were rangatahi Māori aged 10-24 years. Each year, the rate of rangatahi suicide consistently equates to double that of non-Māori youth.

The suicide mortality review committee’s 2016 review of rangatahi Māori suicide deaths found that issues surrounding sexuality were significant in 7.2% of all deaths by suicide of rangatahi Māori aged 15-24 years between 2007 and 2011.

You can watch the web series here

The personal experiences shared in the webisodes may be disturbing for some viewers as they talk about suicide. If you find watching them is upsetting, please reach out and talk to someone.