This Volunteer training and role is highly sort after and places are limited.

Please apply by claiming a ticket and we will respond to confirm your place on this round of training or let you know that you can have a placed on a wait list for future trainings?

If you apply, you are confirming a commitment to attending all 6 sessions with the intention to volunteer at the Just Listening Community.

The 6 week Just Listening Volunteer training will be on the following dates. All training dates need to be attended to complete the volunteer training:

25th May 2021

1st June 2021

8th June 2021

15th June 2021

22nd June 2021

29nd 2021

All training sessions will be from 5:00pm - 8:00pm

VENUE CONFIRMED:29 Shepherd Road, Christies Beach, 5165

About Just Listening Community

Just Listening Community (JLC), is a project delivered in partnership by Community Health Onkaparinga, and Humane Clinic. It will provide a safe, therapeutic environment to offer connection and support to people in distress. The concept has been introduced successfully in the UK where it has been shown to provide a valued therapeutic environment for mental health consumers, promoting independence and recovery in the community. It is a professional-led, volunteer-based service designed to meet the needs of people in the community who are experiencing difficulty with their mental health and wellbeing.

A purpose designed and developed facility in Christie’s Beach will open in May 2021, eventually providing support for people experiencing distress, crisis & suicide. It is intended to help people sooner and be more cost effective than current alternatives. It will provide a service enabling clients to potentially avoid hospital Emergency Departments and mental health wards, both of which can be intimidating environments and can often exacerbate mental health symptoms.

It will be available throughout the day so that the community can offer connection and compassion to people in need:

• As often as they need

• Before taking a drug

• Before taking action towards ending their life

The community volunteers will attend training over six sessions (held over six weeks) in the practices and principles of Just Listening including , Emotional CPR, Power Threat Meaning Framework and Dissociachotic, the model used to support people seeking help through JLC. This training will be facilitated by the Humane Clinic, which has significant expertise and experience in successfully conducting workshops and training in the mental health field. The training structure provided is similar to that offered by the Samaritans in the UK.

*** Attendees booking a place to commit to attend all 6 sessions ***