The Dr Edward Koch Foundation is a non-profit organisation established in March 1997 to promote activities and organisations that alleviate ill-health in North Queensland. The purpose of the Foundation is to improve the health and well-being of North Queenslanders, conduct health research and development projects, promote and initiate preventive and educational health programs and link with other groups with similar objectives in North Queensland. The Foundation’s primary focus is suicide prevention and post-suicide support (postvention). As part of its suicide prevention focus the Foundation delivers a Life Program. The Foundation’s Life Program includes Life Workshops (community education covering suicide awareness and prevention skills), the Life Bereavement Support Service (offering counselling to those bereaved through suicide), the FNQ Suicide Prevention Taskforce (www.suicidepreventionfnq.org.au) (a coordinating body addressing suicide and self harm issues in the whole community and Life Suicide Prevention Plans (a strategy for suicide prevention in a specific community) .