Steve Irons (Swan, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Youth Focus is a community group in my electorate. I instigated a health committee report a few years ago into youth suicide and Youth Focus were the main drivers behind that. The CEO Jenny Allen visited my office last week to talk to me about funding for families and for assisting families who have had the trauma of suicide in their family, particularly young people. They gave me some background to what happened with a particular suicide recently in Bunbury and all the organisations that got involved to help out the family.

Youth Focus run an annual bicycle event which goes from Albany to various points through to Geraldton. They are starting a new leg this year, which will be their third leg. It has been going now for about 15 years and they have had some high-profile, professional cyclists from across Australia, and in that time they have managed to raise well over $2 million to stop youth suicide in Western Australia. They are heavily involved with headspace and provide one of the best services you can find in Western Australia for young people with mental health issues who are facing the disastrous option of suicide. I congratulate them on the work that they do.