Launch: Postvention Toolkit for LGBTIQA+ Communities

Join us for the launch of Switchboard's new LGBTIQA+ Suicide Postvention Toolkit for LGBTIQA+ friends, community groups, and organisations

Switchboard is launching our LGBTIQA+ Suicide Prevention toolkit, 'Supporting each other after suicide: A toolkit for LGBTIQA+ friends, community groups, and organisations'.

Join us for a special panel discussion to introduce the resource and explore how it can be used as a supportive guide for our communities who are moving through suicide loss. We hope this resource will contribute to the building blocks of how our communities care for one another, and the deep knowledge and wisdom our communities hold.

Our panel will include lived experience speakers, experts who have contributed to the resource, and bereavement/grief and loss facilitators.

This is a free webinar and will be recorded and shared for those who register.

MEET THE PANELLISTS

June B - Suicide Bereavement Group Facilitator

June B is a suicide bereavement group facilitator at Switchboard, with expertise in interrogating grief and the way it intersects with LGBTIQA+ identity and community. Their approach combines group facilitation with creative practices to centre connection through lived experience. June has facilitated workshops centred on grief for Australian Queer Archives, QUEERCIRCLE and the Stuart Hall Library.

Darcy W-R - Suicide Prevention Project Officer

Darcy W-R (they/them) is a disabled white queer trans person living on Whadjuk Noongar Boodja (Country). Darcy currently works as Switchboard's Suicide Prevention Project Officer, supporting the Lived Experience Network (LEN) and creating lived experience resources. Outside of Switchboard, they work as a counsellor with LGBTIQA+ and neurodivergent people.

Dr Alison Asche - Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (EMPHN)

Over the past 30 years, Alison has worked in a range of roles in suicide prevention, postvention and mental health with a particular focus on complex trauma and supporting communities from refugee and people seeking asylum backgrounds. Her PhD involved a systemic analysis of service provision for youth experiencing suicidal distress who have childhood trauma histories. Alison has a lived experience of being bereaved by suicide and is chair of the Victorian Suicide Prevention Australia committee. She is currently the Regional Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Senior Lead at Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network (EMPHN).

Stephen Scott

Stephen Scott has many years of experience in LGBTQ community health, and in suicide prevention/postvention in both government and non-government positions. He has also worked in the mental health, alcohol and drugs/harm reduction, domestic and family violence, and victims of crime fields. His educational background is in sociology, anthropology, political economy and public administration. Stephen lives on Kabi Kabi country in rural Queensland with his husband and chihuahua.

Hiếu Phùng

Hiếu (he/they) is a healing-centred facilitator. he is currently completing a Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work and has spent the past few years facilitating programs across mental health, creative arts and youth work. He started Pandan Dreaming as a communal archive to re/member and embody ancestral practices of collective care and interconnectedness together.

Switchboard’s Suicide Prevention program supports LGBTQIA+ communities who have experienced a loss to suicide, if you would like more information regarding our bereavement groups, please reach out to: bereavement@switchboard.org.au or call/sms: 0437 918 239