Suicide Prevention
Training and Resources
LGBTIQ+ ASIST and safeTALK
Switchboard delivers suicide awareness and suicide intervention skills trainings using empirically tested models developed by LivingWorks.
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For all enquiries, please contact: suicide.prevention@switchboard.org.au
ASIST
ASIST is a two-day workshop that teaches participants how to apply a model of suicide intervention. Switchboard proudly employs LGBTIQ+ trainers who are educated in an LGBTIQ+ specific ASIST model. This workshop is suitable for anyone 16+ years.
Max capacity per workshop: 26 participants
safeTALK
safeTALK is a half-day workshop designed to increase community awareness about suicide in which participants are prepared to become suicide-alert helpers. This workshop is suitable for anyone 15+ including school students.
Max capacity per workshop: 32 participants
UPCOMING EVENTS
Suicide Safety Webinar
Suicide Safety is a skill. Like all skills, Suicide Safety is acquired through learning.
In this webinar, we share our tools for communicating about suicide in ways that are supportive, purposeful and safe to build your confidence having direct conversations about suicide. This webinar is suitable for anyone 16+.
Webinars are run every 3-months and can be delivered on request. Sign up to our mailing list here to receive details about next webinar.
OUR RESEARCH
LGBTIQA+ Suicide Postvention Response Plan
This LGBTIQA+ community and peer-led LGBTIQA+ Suicide Postvention Response Plan: Preliminary Findings provides general guidelines to LGBTIQA+ communities and peer organisations involved in providing postvention.
RESOURCES TO KEEP YOU SAFE
LGBTIQA+ Suicide Safety Plan Card
Thinking about suicide can be distressing. It can be hard to know what to say to reach out for help or what to do to keep yourself safe. We’ve made this LGBTIQA+ safety plan card to help you identify what you can do to support your safety and stay alive.
You might like to fill in this card with a friend, counsellor or helpline worker. Keep it somewhere close by, it can help you cope through difficult times.
Let’s talk about suicide podcast
Experiencing loss through suicide is a grief like no other. It can be difficult to find others who have similar experiences and are open to talking about their loss, especially other LGBTIQA+ people. You can hear Hamish Blunck, Joe Ball (Switchboard CEO) and Dr Louise Flynn (Support After Suicide) and other LGBTIQA+ people talk about loss through suicide on this podcast produced by JOY 94.9fm with Switchboard and Support After Suicide.