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LGBTIQA+ Suicide Prevention
Switchboard’s Suicide Prevention
Program
Switchboard’s Suicide Prevention program puts responding to the challenges of suicide among LGBTIQA+ communities at the core of our work.
We work creatively and collaboratively to provide suicide prevention, intervention and postvention initiatives across Australia, with an emphasis on building community resilience through peer-led and lived experience activities.
Our initiatives include:
Suicide Bereavement Support
LGBTIQA+ people can face particular challenges when experiencing loss after a suicide.
We offer 1-1 peer support, an 8-week support group, monthly drop-in groups, and regular creative bereavement sessions for LGBTIQA+ people navigating loss after a suicide.
CHARLEE Suicide Prevention Resource Hub
CHARLEE (connection, hope, advocacy, resources and lived experience education) is an online suicide prevention hub designed by LGBTIQA+ lived experience of suicide.
CHARLEE hosts affirming resources and information for those seeking help for themselves, those seeking to support someone else, and for those who have been bereaved by suicide.
Lived Experience Network (LEN)
The National LGBTIQA+ Lived Experience Network (LEN) is a community of LGBTQIA+ people with lived experience of suicide.
The LEN works collectively to share their stories and experiences to help advocate and shape LGBTIQA+ suicide prevention work. It also provides an opportunity for people with lived experience to connect with peers in healing spaces.
Changing the Landscape
Changing the Landscape is a national campaign calling for LGBTIQA+ lived experience leadership to be valued and included across all parts of the Australian healthcare system in order to achieve the highest attainable standards of suicide prevention and affirming care for all LGBTIQA+SB people.
Resources, Research and Training
Switchboard’s Suicide Prevention Program draws on lived experience expertise to conduct research, develop resources and provide trainings for community members, sector workers and organisations.
Do you work within the field of suicide prevention? Keep up to date with our Suicide Prevention Program, sign up to our mailing list below.
We send out monthly newsletters sharing our latest updates, upcoming events and resources.
For more information, email: suicide.prevention@switchboard.org.au
