
Upcoming Events

LGBTIQA+ Suicide Bereavement Drop-In Group
This monthly peer-led group hopes to offer LGBTIQA+ people experiencing bereavement through suicide an opportunity to connect and support one another, while having discussions about suicide, loss and grief.

External Event - Sisters Day Out Orbost
Sisters Day Out is Djirra’s long-standing wellbeing workshop, this time being held in Orbost

Creative Bereavement Zinemaking Session
An event for LGBTIQA+ people who have lost a loved one to suicide to come together in a zinemaking session honouring their grief journey.

QTIBPOC Grounding Workshop: Circles of Connection
This February, join us for our final workshop in a three-part series, Recalibrating & Connectivity, curated by Jackie Sheppard and Rosie Clynes.

LGBTIQA+ Suicide Bereavement Drop-In Group
This monthly peer-led group hopes to offer LGBTIQA+ people experiencing bereavement through suicide an opportunity to connect and support one another, while having discussions about suicide, loss and grief.

safeTALK Training for LGBTIQA+ Services
Switchboard is facilitating LivingWorks safeTALK, a four-hour training that equips people to be more alert to someone thinking of suicide and better able to connect them with further help.

Creative Bereavement Drop-in Session
Switchboard’s LGBTIQA+ Suicide Bereavement Program is hosting a series of creative bereavement sessions where participants will connect with loss after a suicide by participating in expressive exploration.

QTIBPOC Grounding Workshop: Cultivating Your Inner Voice
Switchboard's QTIBPOC Grounding Workshops are free community gatherings, specifically for queer, trans and intersex people, who are Bla(c)k and/or people of colour.

External Event - Trans Book Festival
Transgender Victoria’s Trans Book Festival is a day to celebrate the talents, courage and creativity of trans and gender diverse authors.

QTIBPOC Grounding Workshop: Recalibrating & Connectivity
Switchboard's QTIBPOC Grounding Workshops are free community gatherings, specifically for queer, trans and intersex people, who are Bla(c)k and/or people of colour.
Join us for our three-part workshop series, Recalibrating & Connectivity, curated by Jackie Sheppard and Rosie Clynes.

LGBTIQA+ Suicide Bereavement Drop-In Group
This monthly peer-led group hopes to offer LGBTIQA+ people experiencing bereavement through suicide an opportunity to connect and support one another, while having discussions about suicide, loss and grief.

Tea Ceremony - Creative Bereavement Session
This workshop is a part of Switchboard’s LGBTIQA+ Creative Bereavement Sessions. In this workshop, Su Mei Tan will guide us through a tea ceremony to explore our experiences with suicide loss.

LGBTIQA+ Suicide Bereavement Drop-In Group
This peer-led group hopes to offer LGBTIQA+ people experiencing bereavement through suicide an opportunity to connect and support one another, while having discussions about suicide, loss and grief.

External Event - World AIDS Day Memorial
Annually, on the 1st of December, the world comes together to mark World AIDS Day. This momentous occasion serves as a worldwide platform for uniting against HIV, displaying support for individuals living with HIV, and remembering those we've lost to this virus.

Trans Day of Remembrance: 'Doing the Work' as Workers Panel
Hear from a panel of trans and gender diverse people about the significance of Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR), the intersection between TDOR and suicide prevention, the impact and reality of suicide bereavement for the trans community and the role of workers and services in understanding and supporting trans and gender diverse people.

LGBTIQA+ Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
Switchboard Vic is offering ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills training) to staff and volunteers of LGBTIQA+ services.

External Event - Storytelling to Create Change
Rainbow Health Australia and experienced First Nations Story Tellers Common Ground are teaming up to deliver workshops that empower Rainbow Mob with storytelling skills.

Pride in Ageing: Community, Connections & Cuppas
We will share stories and discuss how to reduce social isolation, tackle ageism and improve the future for older LGBTI+ individuals.

External Event - Raising our voices
Let's RAISE OUR VOICES for safer, better LGBTIQA+ mental health
Switchboard is joining Rainbow Health Australia and Common Ground to facilitate a series of workshops and focus groups to improve the experience of safer, better mental health care for diverse LGBTIQA+SB people.
The workshops and focus groups are for LGBTIQA+ people and families/carers with lived and living experience of mental health challenges. Join Rainbow Health Australia and their partners to create training and resources to help mental health services, ACCOs and other services provide safer, more inclusive and responsive care to our diverse communities.
Participants will be paid for their time.
Applications due 11 November.
Rainbow Mob workshops: https://tinyurl.com/5e7wazft
For all other workshops: https://tinyurl.com/587e58u9
Facilitated by Rainbow Health Australia, Switchboard Victoria and Common Ground
Supported by Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Inc, Thorne Harbour Health, Mind Australia , Centre for Mental Health Learning.

External Event - LGBTIQA+ Multicultural Fair Day
LGBTIQA+ Multicultural Fair Day will have activities as well as information stalls!

Creative Bereavement Drop-in Session - August
Switchboard’s LGBTQIA+ Suicide Bereavement Program is hosting a series of creative bereavement sessions where participants will connect with loss after a suicide by participating in expressive exploration. When we experience grief, we feel big emotions, creativity and movement. Creative expression can allow us to understand our experiences differently, help us in our relationship to grief, and assist with connecting to our feelings and experiences that can feel beyond words.

External Event - Sisters Day Out Broadford
Sisters Day Out is Djirra’s long-standing wellbeing workshop, where Aboriginal women can support each other, enjoy a little pampering, get information about rights and options, and engage with support services available. Everyone is welcome.

External Event - Rainbow Family Storytime and Photo Session
Join Merri-bek Council for an inclusive, welcoming and joyous Storytime session!

QTIBPoC Grounding Series - session 4
The forth session of the QTIBPoC Grounding series, a series of four free workshops for queer, trans, Indigenous, Bla(c)k and people of colour being hosted by the QTIBPoC Program at Switchboard Victoria. Each workshop will be guided by a different QTIBPoC facilitator.

Creative Bereavement Drop-in Session (Online)
Switchboard’s LGBTQIA+ Suicide Bereavement Program is continuing their series of creative bereavement sessions where participants will connect with loss after a suicide by participating in expressive exploration.

External Event - Myuna Farm Visit - MMIGP School Holidays Program
Come along to Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Space’s youth pathways winter school holiday program!

QTIBPoC Grounding Series - session 3
The third session of the QTIBPoC Grounding series, a series of four free workshops for queer, trans, Indigenous, Bla(c)k and people of colour being hosted by the QTIBPoC Program at Switchboard Victoria. Each workshop will be guided by a different QTIBPoC facilitator.

External Event - Gumbaya Dreaming - MMIGP School Holidays Program
Come along to Mullum Mullum Indigenous Gathering Space’s youth pathways winter school holiday program!

Creating Rainbow Families - POSTPONED
An information session for the LGBTIQA+ communities in Victoria. Welcoming LGBTIQA+ prospective and expectant rainbow families.

QTIBPoC Grounding Series - session 2
The second session of the QTIBPoC Grounding series, a series of four free workshops for queer, trans, Indigenous, Bla(c)k and people of colour being hosted by the QTIBPoC Program at Switchboard Victoria. Each workshop will be guided by a different QTIBPoC facilitator.
Recurring Switchboard Events
LGBTIQA+ Bereavement Support Groups
LGBTIQA+ Support After Suicide bereavement groups are a free program for LGBTIQA+ people who have been bereaved through suicide. We are running this peer-led program in partnership with Support After Suicide at Jesuit Social Services, to create a safe and specialised service that supports LGBTIQA+ suicide loss survivors on their healing journey through grief. Groups run twice a year, for 8 sessions.
Currently, the next cohort is looking to start in April 2025.
For more information about the program and how to join, call 0437 918 239, email bereavement@switchboard.org.au or click here.
External Event - Naarm Rainbow Dads Playgroup
Every Saturday 12:30-3:30pm. Drop in Playgroup for the Rainbow Dads community. Open ages and intended dads welcome. No booking required. Wheelchair accessible.
Bargoona Nganjin, North Fitzroy Library
Playgroup Room 1
182 St George’s Rd, Fitzroy North
Enquiries: naarmrainbowdadsplaygroup@gmail.com