WEBINAR: Centering Peer Leadership in Suicide Prevention
A webinar hosted by Changing the Landscape
Join us for a very special discussion on centering peer leadership in LGBTIQA+SB suicide prevention. We will be talking to a brilliant panel of peer workers about how they approach their work, the unique offerings of peer wisdom in responding to suicide, and what they wish the healthcare sector knew about LGBTIQA+SB peer leadership.
This is a discussion you do not want to miss!
WEBINAR DETAILS
DATE: Wednesday 28 May
TIME: 1.00pm - 2.00pm AEST
WHERE: Zoom
COST: FREE
Register Here
MEET OUR PANELLISTS
Kiara Lindsay (she/her)
Kiara Lindsay is the Lived Experience Peer Worker at StandBy Metro Melbourne and Gippsland. She lives and works on Wurundjeri Country. Over the last year working for StandBy, Kiara has brought insights from her personal experience of suicide loss and professional learnings to support individuals on their journey of suicide bereavement. Kiara is also pursuing counselling studies to broaden her experience and impact.
Is Hay (he/they)
Is (he/they) is a disabled, trans, queer, mad, autistic young person with a lived experience of suicide who lives and works on stolen Wurundjeri Woiwurrung Country. Is invests deeply in embedding disability justice, trans liberation and intersectionality within in suicide prevention and all spaces that work with communities. He is the Allocations Coordinator for Roses in the Ocean's Peer CARE Companion Warmline, which is a non-clinical peer-led suicide prevention call-back service by and for people with lived experience of suicide.
Matthew Simpson
My name is Matthew Simpson, and I am the Lived Experience Peer Worker for StandBy NT and a qualified Grief Educator. I have 50 years of experiencing an eclectic mix of life’s trash and treasures. Am physically disabled. Cancer survivor. Bereaved by suicide. Live with two neurological disorders. Learnt to walk again after MVA in 2009. 27-year AOD abuser now 8 years clean. Had to learn to walk again after nearly having my leg amputated in 2022. I’ve worked in the human services professionally for over 25-years. Am a post graduate student. Fabulously Queer. Writer. Born Atypical with various neurodivergences. Love travelling having explored over 25 countries. A “Kindness Advocate”. Spiritual Explorer. Musician. Dancer. Dreamer. Peace filled human, for I’ve found what I spent my entire life searching for …. “me” …. and I’m living a life I never knew I dreamt of.