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Suicide Prevention for Seniors Program

If you work with older people and would like to learn how to help prevent suicide, this program can provide the training you need. Run by Anglicare and funded by the NSW and Australian Governments, the Suicide Prevention for Seniors Program is suited to aged care workers, retirement living and home care staff, pharmacists, geriatricians, GP practice staff (clinical and non-clinical), carers both paid and unpaid, and anyone in Australia who works closely with older people.

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The Way Back Support Service

The Way Back Support Service was developed by Beyond Blue and has been delivered in the Central Adelaide LHN since late 2020 by AnglicareSA. The Way Back Support Service provides 12 weeks non-clinical, practical support for people following a suicide attempt or suicidal crisis. The service receives referrals from local hospitals and community mental health teams to support people post discharge from hospital. The service works alongside other AnglicareSA suicide prevention programs. To contact the team phone 1300 077 798.

SA

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Suicide Prevention Service

AnglicareSA Suicide Prevention Service was developed in 2014 initially funded as a pilot program by AnglicareSA. It was the first Aftercare service in South Australia, and has continued to provide support for people following a suicide attempt in the Adelaide metropolitan region, and the Adelaide Hills. The service provides non-clinical support for up to 12 weeks, meeting people in their homes or in the community. The service accepts referrals from hospitals and allied health professionals. The team can be contacted during business hours on 1300 077 798

SA

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Compassionate Foundations (Australian Public Service Commission)

Compassionate Foundations is an upstream suicide prevention eLearning program designed specifically for the Australian Public Service. Compassionate Foundations is focused on building positive human-to-human interactions that promote compassion, connection and understanding. It teaches practical skills and concepts that aim to improve understanding of psychological and suicidal distress, and to empower staff to provide effective and safe support to people, no matter what their role is or what experience they have. The program is free for all Australian Public Servants and Commonwealth employees via APSLearn.

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CALM

CALM empowers participants to recognise and respond to suicide risk, and to support someone through stages of positive intervention, the development of a safety plan, and linking to other services for further help.

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CALM Care

CALM Care is a 3.5hr suicide awareness program based on the evaluated and suicide prevention accredited CALM model of suicide intervention. CALM Care provides a 4-stage model (Connect-Ask-Refer-Exit) to assist participants to be suicide aware. Participants learn how to recognise somebody may be at risk and how to Connect with them. They will learn and have the skills to Ask about suicide, be able to be with the person and then ensure they are appropriately Referred to people and services, either through a warm referral or through the CALM Care App. Lastly we cover how to Exit safely and ensure they and the person they had the ‘CALM Conversation’ with are supported.

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Let’sTALK Program

The Let’sTALK Program is about ‘Letting Everyone Talk Safely’ by cultivating an environment of psychological safety. Psychological safety is the foundation of our wellbeing. Without it our relationships, resilience and results are compromised. The TALK strategies, along with the holistic approach the program takes, creates an environment of trust, understanding and caring to encourage open and safe conversations without judgement and harmful consequences. Let’sTALK is an evidence-based Program approved by psychologists, and delivered by CCC Foundation, that reminds every employee the importance of having preventative and caring conversations with their team, especially those who appear to be struggling emotionally.

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The Wayback Program – CCNB

The Way Back Support Service (The Way Back) was developed by Beyond Blue and CCNB is commissioned to provide the service for the Northern Sydney Region. The Way Back supports people who have recently experienced a suicidal crisis or attempted suicide and provides non-clinical, practical support in the community for up to three months. Participation is voluntary and support is guided by your needs. CCNB work in collaboration with all hospitals, community health teams and local GPs to support people who have presented to hospital following a suicide attempt. Support can be obtained from CCNB by calling 1300 002 262 or emailing ccnb@ccnb.com.au

NSW

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Connecting with People

Connecting with People has been designed to meet the differing mental health training needs of a broad spectrum of sectors, including healthcare, social care, statutory bodies, further & higher education, workplaces and the wider community

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CORES Suicide Prevention Training

The Community Response to Eliminating Suicide (CORES) training program was developed in the rural community of Kentish, in Tasmania, and has been operating since 2003 within Tasmania. It was developed by the community, for the community, and people with ‘Lived Experience’ were involved from the onset. Volunteer Peer Facilitators were trained to deliver the one-day course and this provided sustainability of the program. The training provides individuals and communities with the essential skills and resources required to identify and respond to a person at risk of suicide and build on a communities’ capacity to eliminate suicide.

NSWQLDSATAS

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Resilience First Aid

Resilience First Aid (RFA) is a two-day certification course delivered by Driven that teaches critical conversational skills to proactively build resilience in others as a preventative approach to mental health and suicide prevention. Participants become community resilience champions by learning about a scientifically proven six factor resilience model, understanding highs and lows to look for, and learning skills that lifts both the resilience of others and themselves. Physical and digital resources are provided to facilitate conversations and reinforce resilience over time, helping to build strong connections with the community.

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High Adversity Resilience Training

Hello Driven's, High Adversity Resilience Training (HART) teaches advanced resilience skills for unique and extreme challenges. HART is valuable for emergency responders, Defence personnel, healthcare workers, and other professionals who manage extreme situations. This is a two-day certification course that forms part of the larger HART Culture system, providing training to leadership, management, staff, and family members to build a resilient and supportive environment. This course includes unique skills like Sustainable Compartmenting, building resilience to vicarious and direct trauma, along with other science-based skills to proactively prevent traumatic injury and protect mental health.

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HOPE (Hospital Outreach Post-Suicidal Engagement)

Eastern Health provides support for people at the point of hospital discharge that are identified as at-risk of suicide and, or repeated intentional self-harm.

VIC

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Brief Intervention Team

Brief Intervention team provide short term support (six sessions) using Brief Solution Focused Therapy approach for people with thoughts of suicide. Consumers are referred to the clinic via various areas within Eastern Health Mental Health such as psychiatric triage, crisis teams, emergency department or community mental health teams.

VIC

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Suicide Prevention Virtual Reality Training Tool

Ergonomie has developed a pilot Virtual Reality training tool for Sydney Trains station staff, to increase the understanding and identification of pre-suicide behaviours at train stations. The training tool aims to encourage staff to take a more vigilant and proactive approach to scanning the station environment and interacting with passengers. It is also designed to empower station staff with the knowledge of how to best manage passengers at risk of suicide, including the development of "active prevention" techniques. In 2022, Ergonomie aims to work with subject matter experts to develop and refine the training tool. Once finalised, it is envisaged that it will be rolled out across the Sydney Trains network.

NSW

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Next Steps

Grand Pacific Health provides this service for those who have attempted suicide or are at risk of doing so. It is primarily staffed by peer workers who work collaboratively with clinicians to support the person through a suicidal crisis and address the primary drivers of suicide. Referrals are currently only accepted through Illawarra/Shoalhaven LHD (Wollongong, Nowra) or Southern NSW LHD (Bega, Eurobodalla, Goulburn, Queanbeyan), Aboriginal Controlled Health Organisations in these areas and Towards Zero Suicides Initiatives. Referrals are currently only accepted through Illawarra/Shoalhaven LHD (Wollongong, Nowra) or Southern NSW LHD (Bega, Eurobodalla, Goulburn, Queanbeyan), Aboriginal Controlled Health Organisations in these areas and Towards Zero Suicide Initiatives.

NSW

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The Way Back Support Service

Developed by Beyond Blue in 2010 to support people who had attempted suicide or experienced a suicidal crisis. The service focuses on providing support for up to three months in the critical period following an attempt or suicidal crisis. The service provides non-clinical, practical support and linkages to services in the community around their identified needs of support. The focus is on meeting the person where is most comfortable for them, which may be in their home, in community or at our sites. The team at Grand Pacific Health is made up of a Clinical Lead/Team Leader and Support Coordinators who work in close partnership with the LHD, who are the referrers to the service.

NSW

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HealthWISE Community Based Suicide Prevention Service

The HealthWISE Suicide Prevention program is an innovative model which incorporates clinical and lived experience support as well as community and health professional capacity building. The program includes those bereaved by suicide as well as those affected by historical suicides and/or attempts. The impact of suicides, especially on small rural and/or small Indigenous communities is widespread, ongoing and must be an important consideration in an effective aftercare model. The objective of the Suicide Prevention Program is to contribute to reducing the number of people who die by suicide and decrease the number of individuals who attempt suicide or experience suicidal crisis in NSW by providing timely, compassionate and appropriate support to individuals who have attempted suicide and support for people affected by a death by suicide.

NSW

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Mental Fitness @ Work

Mental Fitness @ Work^TM is a market driven, customisable program that reduces stigma and empowers participants with a simple framework to create mentally fit workplaces. Mental Fitness @ Work^TM moves beyond compliance into best practice by taking a proactive stance towards psychological health and safety. The program builds capability, creates common language, reduces stigma, and encourages daily investment in mental fitness @ work, thereby aiming to change lives and save lives.

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ifarmwell

ifarmwell is a free farmer-focused program which has been designed by Australian farmers, to help other Australian farmers, cope effectively with life’s challenges and get the most out of every day. The evidence-based website is also informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and has been popular with farmers because it speaks to them in a way they can understand and offers up practical tools and strategies which can be built into their everyday lives. You do not have to have a mental health problem to benefit, and it is relevant to people who work with or support farmers and their families too. Visit the www.ifarmwell.com.au to learn more and get started. To take a tour of the website and how it works, visit - https://vimeo.com/659218373

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Cool Connections in School

Iris Foundation delivers Cool Connections which is an eight-week, in-school program for students in Years 5 and 6, that helps them identify their own positive qualities.

NSW

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Support After Suicide

Support After Suicide is a program of Jesuit Social Services funded by the Federal Government through the Victorian Primary Health Networks. Support After Suicide provides specialist suicide bereavement counselling to individuals, couples and families who are bereaved by suicide. Given the complexity and intensity of the experience, it can be beneficial to speak with someone who has the sensitivity and expertise in how to respond. Counselling is available at locations in Victoria and New South Wales in person, by phone and Zoom. Support After Suicide also facilitates a range of support groups including peer support and professionally facilitated.

NSWVIC

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Lifeline Direct AfterCare

Lifeline Direct’s AfterCare is designed to increase access and engagement with care to prevent repetition of suicidal behaviour. The program provides rapid and assertive outreach to people who have recently attempted suicide for up to three months. AfterCare coordinators work alongside individuals to provide person-centred, non-clinical, practical support in the community, to build self-resilience, social connectedness, and capacity to seek help. AfterCare progressively builds on the participant’s resources, networks, and support options to empower them and provide choice and control throughout their recovery journey. Participants may choose to access Lifeline Direct’s complementary services including counselling, Eclipse groups and care calls.

NSW

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Lifeline Direct Eclipse

Lifeline Direct’s Eclipse gives people the chance to meet and talk to others who have survived a suicide attempt and offers an opportunity to learn skills that may help participants to cope with feelings and thoughts of suicide. The closed, eight-week group focuses on creating bonds between participants and facilitators that allow members to feel safe in sharing their thoughts and emotions related to their suicide attempt. Once a safe group environment is achieved, the focus of the group expands to include an emphasis on tools and skills that will help members to stay safe from a future suicide attempt.

NSW

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Lifeline Crisis Support Suicide Aftercare Program

Lifeline Macarthur and Western Sydney's Suicide Aftercare Program offers short term crisis support to people who have attempted suicide, are experiencing a crisis in their lives and who need someone to talk to.

NSW

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Eclipse Support Group

Lifeline Macarthur and Western Sydney provide ECLIPSE as a support group for adults who have survived a suicide attempt, regardless of whether the attempt was recent or in the past.

NSW

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Suicide Bereavement Support Group

Lifeline Macarthur & Western Sydney's Support Group will assist you to break down the silence that locks away the guilt, shame, anger, intense pain and the "why". The Group is a safe place to share your thoughts, ideas and feelings with others who understand the enormity of your loss. The Group is structured so that those bereaved can share their experiences as well as being supported in managing their grief.

NSW

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Lifeline Hospital to Recovery

Peer worker collocated between Lifeline Mid Coast and Port Macquarie Base Hospital Community Health supporting patients that have attempted suicide.

NSW

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Eclipse Support Group

Lifeline Mid Coast delivers ECLIPSE which is a support group for adults who have survived a suicide attempt.

NSW

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Support after Suicide

Support for family or friends after suicide. Lifeline Mid Coast’s Support After Suicide Bereavement Groups are for adults who have experienced the loss of someone through suicide.

NSW

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LivingWorks Start

LivingWorks Start is a 90-minute online training program for all Australians 15 years and over to learn how to recognise when someone is having thoughts of suicide and respond to keep them safe.

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LivingWorks safeTALK

LivingWorks' safeTALK is a half-day alertness workshop that prepares anyone over the age of 15, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper.

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LivingWorks ASIST

Virtually anyone age 16 or older, regardless of prior experience or training, can become an ASIST-trained caregiver. Over 1,000,000 people have taken the workshop, and studies have proven that the LivingWorks ASIST method helps reduce suicidal feelings for those at risk.

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LivingWorks I-ASIST

LivingWorks' I-ASIST is an innovative, Indigenous-first suicide intervention training program co-designed with Indigenous leadership and consultation.

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LivingWorks safeTALK in Schools

LivingWorks safeTALK in Schools is a half day, face-to-face workshop. Delivered from a proven evidence-base, this program is the first school suicide first aid training program developed in Australia. LivingWorks safeTALK in Schools demonstrates the importance of suicide alertness and helps teachers, support staff, and students identify ways people invite help when they're at risk before a crisis. The program teaches a simple yet effective model to engage with people with thoughts of suicide and connect them with resources that can carry out a full-scale intervention.

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LivingWorks LGBTIQ+ ASIST

LivingWorks LGBTIQ+ ASIST has been developed in collaboration with LGBTIQ+ people to be delivered by community, for community. It provides the same gold standard as LivingWorks ASIST with additional measures to incorporate the unique experiences and needs of people with diverse sexualities and genders in suicide prevention and intervention.

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LivingWorks Faith

Blending Scriptural wisdom and proven best practices, LivingWorks Faith is designed for all Christian ministry leaders who want to learn to effectively prevent, intervene, and minister around the issue of suicide in their congregations.

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Welfare Warrior Training

Love Me Love You deliver the Welfare Warrior Training to enable participants to develop a greater understanding of how to tackle the challenges associated with mental health. Participants will walk away with a toolkit of resources, skills and research based strategies that help foster a positive change in the mental health outcomes of your workplace or community.

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Mariposa Trails From Helpless to Hopeful

From helpless to hopeful is a workshop offered across states and can be delivered in Spanish and English, focus reaching cross cultural communities. From helpless to hopeful, this 3-session community course caters to Multicultural Communities. The program focuses on enhancing participation in suicide prevention, addressing cultural values, various stigmas, language's impacted on distress, and fostering understanding toward the Lived Experience movement. Delving into gender roles, protective factors, and risk factors, the course explores cultural resilience, migration, and coping with challenges. Emphasizing the art of listening, it encourages open conversations about suicide and provides information on community resources, support, and interventions. The workshops, aligned with Mind Frame Guidelines and SA Suicide Prevention Plan, aims to stimulate reflection, facilitate learning, and promote cultural safety through cultural activities and practices. Each session incorporates cultural games, connection, cultural resilience, confidentiality, and lived experiences, drawing insights from reputable sources such as PAHO and Australian Institute of Health and Welfare."

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General Awareness Training

MATES is a charity that was established in 2008 to address high levels of suicide in the construction, mining, energy and manufacturing industries across Australia by providing suicide prevention training combined with field officer and case management support for workers and their families. MATES is by the industry, for the industry – we understand the industries we work in and have been recognised by the World Health Organisation as an example of best practice in workplace suicide prevention. MATES works on the basic idea of ‘mates helping mates’ by raising awareness and providing skills to workers to notice the signs that a mate is doing it tough and be able to connect them to help.

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Case Management Program

MATES is a charity that was established in 2008 to address high levels of suicide in the construction, mining, energy and manufacturing industries across Australia by providing suicide prevention training combined with field officer and case management support for workers and their families. MATES is by the industry, for the industry – we understand the industries we work in and have been recognised by the World Health Organisation as an example of best practice in workplace suicide prevention. MATES works on the basic idea of ‘mates helping mates’ by raising awareness and providing skills to workers to notice the signs that a mate is doing it tough and be able to connect them to help.

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Conversations About Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

Half-day course for adults assisting someone engaging in non-suicidal self-injury. You will learn the skills and acquire the knowledge required to assist a person who is engaging in self-injury, using three evidence based key actions. This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals. It is only delivered by Accredited MHFA Instructors.

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Conversations About Suicide

Half-day course for adults assisting someone experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviours. You will learn the skills and acquire the knowledge required to safely have a conversation with a suicidal person, using three evidence based key actions. This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals. It is only delivered by Accredited MHFA Instructors.

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Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Mental Health First Aid Course

14-hour course for adults assisting an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Person; available via face-to face, blended face to face, and online delivery modes. From a culturally informed perspective you will learn how to assist an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander adult who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves, using a practical, evidence-based action plan. This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander mental health professionals, many of whom also have lived experience of mental health problems. The course is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous adults, and is only delivered by Accredited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AMHFA Instructors.

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Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Youth Mental Health First Aid Course

Suitable for all interested adults including school staff, support workers, parent and community who support Aboriginal and Torres Strait young people; 14-18 hour course available via face-to face and online delivery modes. Developed by and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people this informative and strengths-based course will teach you how to assist Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander young people who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis until appropriate professional support is received or the crisis resolves, using a practical, evidence-based action plan. This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander mental health professionals, many of whom also have lived experience of mental health problems. The course is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous adults, and is only delivered by Accredited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AMHFA Instructors.

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Older Persons Mental Health First Aid Course

Suitable for adults who work with, live with or care for a person aged over 65; 12-hour course available via face-to-face delivery mode. You will learn how to assist a person aged 65+ who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves, using a practical, evidence-based action plan. This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals. It is only delivered by Accredited MHFA Instructors.

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Standard Mental Health First Aid Course

Suitable for adults in workplaces, schools, and community settings to support other adults; 12-hour course available via face-to face, blended face-to face, and online delivery modes. You will learn how to assist an adult who may be experiencing a mental health problem or mental health crisis until appropriate professional help is received or the crisis resolves, using a practical, evidence-based action plan. This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of people with lived experience of mental health problems and professionals. It is only delivered by Accredited MHFA Instructors.

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Talking About Suicide

Half-day course for adults assisting an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviours. You will learn the skills and acquire the knowledge required to safely have a conversation with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person experiencing suicidal thoughts and behaviours, using three evidence based key actions. This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander mental health professionals, many of whom also have lived experience of mental health problems. The course is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous adults, and is only deliverable by Accredited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AMHFA Instructors.

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Talking About Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

Half-day course for adults assisting an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person engaging in non-suicidal self-injury. You will learn the skills and acquire the knowledge required to safely have a conversation with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person engaging in non-suicidal self-injury, using three evidence based key actions. This course is based on guidelines developed through the expert consensus of Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander mental health professionals, many of whom also have lived experience of mental health problems. The course is open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous adults, and is only delivered by Accredited Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander AMHFA Instructors.

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Teen Mental Health First Aid Course

Suitable for adolescents in Years 7-9 and 10-12 to provide peer-to-peer support; 3.5-hour course available via a face-to face delivery mode. Adolescence is a time of important change and development. It is also the time when mental health problems can first emerge. During high school years, mental health problems are among the leading courses of falling grades, problems with friends, and relationships, substance use or abuse and they can have lifelong impact. That’s where Mental Health First Aid training can help. With a focus on improved mental health literacy and early intervention, the peer-to-peer Teen MHFA course is for high school students Years 7-9 and Years 10-12. Students learn how to support a peer using an evidence based and age-appropriate action plan.

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Youth Mental Health First Aid Course

Suitable for school staff, support workers, parents, and other adults to support young people; 14-hour course available via face-to face, blended face-to face, and online delivery modes. Adolescence is a time of important change and development. It is also the time when mental health problems can first emerge. During high school years, mental health problems are among the leading courses of falling grades, problems with friends, and relationships, substance use or abuse and they can have lifelong impact. That’s where Mental Health First Aid training can help. With a focus on improved mental health literacy and early intervention, Youth MHFA is for adults who work, live or care for adolescents such as teachers, school support staff, parents, sports coaches, community group leaders and youth workers.

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Mentor Training & Life Mentoring in the Community

Mentoring Men is a registered Australian charity providing free long-term, one-to-one life mentoring for men who are going through some challenges or changes in their life. Our early intervention program is designed to prevent Mentees’ issues turning into a crisis. Volunteer Mentors are trained in advanced communication skills to enable Mentees to be supported and encouraged in safety and without judgement, while Mentees are provided with training content to reinforce their decision to seek help in their life journey. Mentors and Mentees are carefully matched based on age, location and life experiences relevant to fostering a successful relationship.

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Mind Blank for Schools

The Mind Blank for Schools program uses interactive theatre as a mental health promotional tool. Our depression awareness and suicide prevention program is specially-designed to showcase stories of lived experience to help young people to identify signs and symptoms of mental health issues developing. Throughout the program we use roleplay techniques to build skills and support mental health help-seeking tactics in a time of need.

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Mind Blank – Workplace Mental Health Workshop

Mind Blank’s mental health workplace programs help people to build resilience skills and support wellbeing strategies. Through our interactive workshops, we provide a non-threatening environment to host important conversations to discuss how mental health issues can develop in the workplace. Our depression awareness and suicide prevention initiatives use role play techniques to guide staff to implement early intervention tactics.

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Workbench for the Mind

Workbench for the mind is a resilience building program created by suicide prevention advocate and positive psychology & wellbeing consultant and Mental Health First Aid facilitator Suzi Evans. The idea behind ‘Workbench for the mind’ is to provide a safe, supportive space where people can uncover their own inner resources that can be used to improve their wellbeing. 1: Lay everything out on the table 2: Understand how the brain works, you can mould your brain (or workbench) through plasticity to change, re-organise and adapt habits and thought patterns. 3: Find out what tools you already have on your workbench 4: Identify the tools you need to improve your resilience These skills are based on Suzi’s lived experience combined with her studies in Positive Psychology & Wellbeing. Suzi can tailor make the workshop to suit your industry or environment. The positive psychology approach has been clinically proven to increased well-being and reduced depression levels. ‘Workbench for the mind’ gives participants the ability to listen, understand, communicate effectively, as well as manage their own emotions in positive ways through their emotional journey.

SA

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MensLine Australia

Established in 2001, MensLine is a free 24/7 national phone and online counselling service for men with concerns about mental health, anger management, family violence (using and experiencing), addiction, relationship, stress, and wellbeing. Call 1300 78 99 78 or visit the website to chat online. https://mensline.org.au/phone-and-online-counselling/

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Suicide Call Back Service

Established in 2007, Suicide Call Back Service is a free 24/7 national phone and online counselling service for anyone at risk of suicide, concerned about someone at risk, bereaved by suicide and people experiencing emotional or mental health issues. Call 1300 659 467 or visit the website to chat online. This service can also provide up to four free follow-up sessions for ongoing support. https://www.suicidecallbackservice.org.au/phone-and-online-counselling/

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SuicideLine Victoria

Established in 1998, SuicideLine is a free 24/7 Victorian phone and online counselling service for anyone at risk of suicide, concerned about someone at risk, bereaved by suicide and people experiencing emotional or mental health issues. Call 1300 651 251 to speak to a counsellor or visit the website to chat online. https://suicideline.org.au/phone-and-online-counselling/

VIC

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All Hours Suicide Support

Established in 2008, All Hours Suicide Support is a free 24/7 phone counselling service that provides support to Primary Health Network clients with low-to-medium risk of suicide, ensuring they have access to professional support when around the clock when their allied health practitioner is not available. For more information or to register, visit the website. https://ontheline.org.au/ahs/

VIC

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Structured Intervention Program for Suicide Attempters

The Structured Intervention Program for Suicide-Attempters (SIPS) is a brief, structured and client-centred intervention for individuals who have had a recent suicide attempt. SIPS is a collaborative approach, not a stand-alone program. PsychMed have designed the program to run alongside a client’s existing mental health treatment, with the aim to reduce suicide risk beyond treatment as usual, as well as giving clients focused, targeted time for discussion of suicidal thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. The program consists of 3-4 sessions of individual therapy with a trained psychologist, designed to create an understanding of previous suicidal crisis, existing risk factors, personal warning signs, and both short and long-term safety plans. Information gained in the SIPS program will be shared with the client’s supporting health professionals, to help them receive collaborative and coordinated care.

SA

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Culturally Responsive Suicide Prevention Training for Human Service Workers

A self-directed, online training course which teaches learners how to identify and support people from culturally diverse backgrounds who may be at risk of suicide. The training course takes 5-6 hours to complete and is comprised of 4 modules:

Culture and suicide.
Suicide prevention: how to recognise, respond and support.
Practicing suicide prevention in your organisation for volunteers and staff.
Supporting people bereaved by suicide.

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Healing Your Life

Quest for Life have developed an interactive, 5-day residential program for people living with a variety of traumas and the challenging emotions elicited by them.

NSW

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Moving Beyond Trauma

Quest for Life have developed Moving Beyond Trauma designed to assist people with post-trauma stress symptoms to reclaim their lives and create greater control over their emotional equilibrium and their lifestyle choices.

NSW

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SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY Schools Program

The Stay ChatTY Schools Program is a mental health literacy program for Tasmanian students Grades 9–12. The program, called GritFit, raises mental health awareness and builds student confidence to seek help for themselves and their peers. It uses a positive psychology lens to bust myths about mental health, tackle stigma, promote strategies for building resilience and grit, and fostering a kindness culture at school and beyond. It also weaves in lived experience storytelling. Parent and teacher sessions complement the student sessions to support a whole-school approach to mental health literacy.

TAS

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SPEAK UP! Stay ChatTY Sports Program

The Stay ChatTY Sports Program delivers free evidence-based mental health literacy workshops to sporting clubs across Tasmania to support clubs in raising mental health awareness, reducing stigma, promoting help-seeking, and encouraging helping behaviours among teammates. The Sports Program offers four separate workshops – ChatTY Minds for junior athletes and coaches/parents, Building Mental Muscle for senior and adult athletes around understanding mental health and wellbeing, and Stress2Strength for senior and adult athletes around managing stress on and off the field. The Stay ChatTY Sports Program also supports clubs in organising mental health awareness sporting matches and rounds.

TAS

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Relationships Australia Tasmania Suicide Prevention Program

The Relationships Australia Tasmania Suicide Prevention Program works with communities to promote mental health and wellbeing and prevent suicide using a health promotion approach. The program supported communities (which can include workplaces, councils, placed-based areas, community groups, sporting clubs and more) to develop and fund Community Action Plans (CAPs) to tackle suicide in ways that work for them. The Suicide Prevention Program also coordinates the Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Community Network, which connects community members, service providers and government representatives to reduce and prevent suicide in Tasmania, and organises the Tasmanian LiFE Awards and the annual Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Forum.

TAS

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Our Voice in Action

Our Voice in Action is a two-day workshop designed by Roses in the Ocean to develop specific skills for impactful engagement in suicide prevention activities.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Voices of In-Sight

Roses in the Ocean has developed the Voices of In-Sight speakers program. The Program is a highly reflective, facilitated process where you are afforded the gift of time … time to reflect & explore your own story, time to connect with others who have walked in similar shoes, time to hear different perspectives of suicide, and time to develop a structured, well messaged story that will have a positive impact on whoever has the privilege of hearing it.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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LaunchPad

Roses in the Ocean's LaunchPad is an empowering one-day workshop designed to assist community-based suicide prevention action groups to use their lived experience in a planned, coordinated and impactful manner.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Peer CARE Companion

Roses in the Ocean's Peer CARE Companion workshop is designed to assist people with a lived experience of suicide to see themselves as valuable contributors to suicide prevention and to appreciate what it takes to walk as a peer alongside someone needing support.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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TouchPoints

Roses in the Ocean delivers this informative and interactive four-hour workshop designed specifically to give community members an insight into suicide through the lens of people who have personally experienced it. The workshop will equip them with the right knowledge and practical tools to reduce the emotional pain experienced by many around us, and even save a life

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Living Perspectives

Living Perspectives of Suicide is a half or full day suicide awareness and intervention workshop designed collaboratively between Roses in the Ocean and Lifeline Queensland.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Pop-Up Safe Spaces

The Pop-up Safe Space model has the versatility to look, feel and operate in different ways depending on the specific and evolving needs of a community. Considerations include immediacy of need, demographics, priority population groups, geographical challenges, what an individual community wants, and what they have access to in terms of physical space. Roses in the Ocean will pilot Pop-up Safe Space – deployed and delivered by Roses in the Ocean to meet short term immediate community need, set up for a limited time-period (approx 4-8 weeks) and rapidly mobilised in response to urgent and immediate community need for intensive support. Safe spaces are perhaps the most realised expression of Roses in the Ocean’s commitment to reduce emotional distress and pain, and are a celebration of the organisations ability to deliver outcomes informed and designed by people with a lived experience of suicide.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Suicide Prevention Peer Workforce Development Service

The Suicide Prevention (SP) Peer Workforce Development Service is a suite of resources and training for the emerging Suicide Prevention Peer Workforce. Roses In the Ocean have created specialised training for people with a lived experience of suicide wishing to work in formal peer roles within suicide prevention services, and a range of peer support services and resources for them and the organisations who engage them.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Suicide Prevention Peer CARE Connect

Suicide Prevention (SP) Peer CARE Connect is a suicide prevention call-back service, and has been created by Roses in the Ocean to provide a safe place for people with a lived experience of suicide to connect with others with a similar lived experience of suicide.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Finding My Voice

Roses in the Ocean's Finding My Voice is a one-day workshop designed to introduce those with a lived experience of suicide seeking to become involved in suicide prevention. To understand why and how lived experience of suicide can drive positive change and appreciate the power and diversity of lived experience perspectives. Through this workshop, you will gain insights into the current landscape of suicide prevention and the ways in which you can contribute. You will explore the concepts of compassionate curiosity, self-care, and sustainability in suicide prevention.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Collaborating to Create Systems Change Program

Collaborating to Create Systems Change is a workshop by Roses in the Ocean designed for people involved, individually or, as part of a Lived Experience Advisory, Reference or Working Group working to influence and inform system change. It provides key insights into how to effectively collaborate for positive outcomes in system reform, encouraging personal and group reflection to enhance learnings. Participants will be equipped with a deeper understanding of how lived experience can be utilised to drive meaningful change and improve experiences for others.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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RAW Country Program

RAW Country aims to improve mental health and well-being and prevent repeat suicide attempts and suicide deaths. Our team demonstrate genuine care and have an understanding of living in rural and remote areas. They are proactive in providing ongoing practical and emotional support. The Rural Alive & Well Country team focus on person centered engagement and takes the time needed to connect with people, providing ongoing practical support and/or referral to key services. Our approach to client engagement is ‘non-clinical’ in style and presents as caring, confidential, non-intrusive, and available when and where the help is most needed.

TAS

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Passionate Professional Mentoring Program

Share the Spark Inc. is a non-profit on the Northern Beaches of Sydney Australia focused on helping youth find the SPARK that leads towards a fulfilling life. We recognise that young people today are under increasing amounts of pressure and stress from many different sources. In these circumstances, it is easier to lose your SPARK for life. Through our free passionate professional mentoring program, we provide young people an opportunity to interact for a day, week, month or longer with all types of passionate professionals who love what they are doing and want to share their SPARK. Young people choose which mentors they would like to work with from the many professions we have in our mentor library.

NSW

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Stand Tall

Stand Tall Australia exists to build hope in the lives of young Australians, supporting the mental well-being of our youth through inspiring events, presentations, workshops, camps and online resources. Stand Tall events bring together thousands of secondary students from all backgrounds for inspiring and life-changing one-day live events that fill them with hope. The events are also live-streamed to more than 100,000 students around Australia. Students hear personal stories from inspirational speakers who have overcome severe adversities or set amazing goals to lead extraordinary lives. Important themes of resilience, self-value, compassion for others, skills to deal with bullying and reject dangerous behaviours such as drug-taking, all support students’ well-being, giving them perspective and confidence to embrace the future.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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StandBy Support After Suicide

StandBy is a national suicide postvention program dedicated to assisting people and communities bereaved or impacted by suicide. Postvention is about supporting families, friends, colleagues and communities at any stage after their loss.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Illawarra Shoalhaven Safe Haven

Stride's Safe Spaces (also called safe havens) are walk-in services that provide a welcoming, supportive environment and an alternative to hospital emergency departments for people experiencing psychological distress.

NSW

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Safe Space Blacktown

Stride's Safe Spaces (also called safe havens) are walk-in services that provide a welcoming, supportive environment and an alternative to hospital emergency departments for people experiencing psychological distress.

NSW

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Eight-week Support Groups

SAMSN runs Eight-week Support Groups for men who were sexually assaulted in their childhood. These groups are conducted within a safe peer-support environment and are facilitated by two professional counsellors. The facilitators create a safe environment for recovery with clear rules and guidelines for the peer-group to ensure appropriate conduct and confidentiality. The groups meet weekly for two hours. The first four weeks focus on childhood including exploring the dynamics of child sexual abuse (CSA) and grooming. The final four weeks focus on adulthood and common impacts and coping strategies. The groups are run either in-person or online. To date, SAMSN has run 85 eight-week groups.

NSW

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Peer Support Line

SAMSN understands the value of connection and community and the role they play in recovery and healing. SAMSN also understands the barriers that can sometimes get in the way of connecting and finding the most appropriate support. That is why we offer a specialist telephone support service providing the opportunity for male survivors to talk with a peer; someone with lived experience who can identify with the issues so often faced by men living with the impacts of child sexual abuse (CSA). This is not a crisis helpline but rather a peer support service for male survivors of CSA. This is a free and confidential service.

NSW

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Planned Support

Individual planned support uses a collaborative approach in our aim to achieve a wrap-around support for the survivors we work with, their families and supporters. SAMSN employs clinicians with specialist skills as well as those with lived experience to provide practical support in dealing with government & support agencies and the legal system. SAMSN workers can accompany survivors to interviews, set up appointments, make calls on behalf of survivors, advocate for access to services, assist with navigating government systems and finding ways to resolve difficulties. SAMSN can also make referrals to other agencies. SAMSN also has a specialist trauma-informed counsellor who can provide short term counselling and assist survivors and their supporters to access longer term counselling if needed. This service can be provided either in-person or over the phone.

NSW

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FOUNDOBLUE

FOUNDOBLUE is a three-year capacity building program which has been developed to raise awareness, encourage engagement, provide links to supports, promote group support networks and advocate self-care across the NSW construction industry. The program is focused on mental health wellness, suicide prevention and building confidence in supporting help seeking behaviour from within the peer-supported industry. The three-year FOUNDOBLUE program is strategically targeted to meet the holistic mental health needs of the NSW construction industry and accomplishes this with respect, compassion and authenticity.

NSW

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The Men’s Table

The Men’s Table is a simple, effective grass roots community building and men’s mental health and suicide prevention initiative. The Men’s Table enables groups of men to meet once a month over a meal and talk about the issues that are impacting on their lives and wellbeing. Each group is locally initiated and organised by its members with support provided through a central office. Men at Tables are invited to commit to growing old together once membership has settled. Belonging to a Men's Table contributes to mental, emotional and social wellbeing whilst being a powerful support to individual members negotiating life challenges and a prevention strategy against widespread social isolation and loneliness in our community affecting many men.

ACTNSWQLDSATASVICWA

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TrackSAFE Foundation Suicide Awareness Training

TrackSAFE’S Suicide Awareness Training is designed specifically for rail workers in Australia and New Zealand. It helps to build skills and confidence to identify and engage with someone who may be at risk of suicide, and safely intervene. It also provides information on support services available for rail workers post incident. The training is free, online and takes 30 minutes.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Wesley LifeForce Suicide Prevention Training for Community

Wesley LifeForce Community Suicide Prevention Workshop based on the latest research in suicide prevention. Designed to help people identify the signs that someone may be at risk of suicide and educate them on how to respond.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Wesley LifeForce Suicide Prevention Training for General Practitioners & Practice Nurses

These professionals already have a significant understanding of the risk factors associated with suicide and the measures required to support those at risk. Wesley LifeForce General Practitioner & Practice Nurses Suicide Prevention Training enables them to develop their knowledge and expertise, while participating in continuing professional development.

ACTNSWNTQLDSATASVICWA

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Wesley LifeForce Community Suicide Prevention Networks

Wesley Lifeforce Networks are community-driven local groups that identify and implement grassroots initiatives to prevent suicide. Networks have a whole of government and population reach into at risk populations and communities. Wesley Mission supports more than 130 Networks nationally including in regional and remote Australia, with 85.4% of Network members identifying as having a lived experience of suicide. In 2021 the University of Melbourne’s longitudinal analysis of data found the establishment of a Network initially reduces suicide rates by 17%; sustained at 7% over time. The analysis found other Network impacts include:

increased awareness and understanding of suicide prevention issues
increased community knowledge and awareness of support services
increased community confidence and capacity to help someone at risk of suicide
improved service linkages and access pathways
reduced stigma regarding suicide which in turn facilitated help-seeking
greater sense of community connection.

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Youth Live4Life

Live4Life is the only mental health education and youth suicide prevention model designed specifically for rural and regional communities. Live4Life builds young people’s capacity to recognise, seek and offer help for mental health concerns and builds the capacity of a whole community to look after and support young people. Young people are recruited as youth mental health ambassadors, and local community members are trained as mental health first aid instructors. Live4Life's programs are led by a network of local organisations and schools who partner to lead and sustain the Live4Life model throughout the community.

VIC

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Introducing Zero Suicide Healthcare

The foundational belief of Zero Suicide is that suicide deaths for individuals under the care of health and behavioural health systems are preventable. For systems dedicated to improving patient safety, Zero Suicide presents an aspirational challenge and practical framework for system-wide transformation toward safer suicide care.

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The Wounded Butterflies – Overcoming Adversity™ program

The Wounded Butterflies – Overcoming Adversity™ program has been designed as an interactive 9 step guided workbook assisting individuals in overcoming their personal pain and trauma, rediscovering the joy in life. Created by the AW Foundation’s founder, based on lived experiences, such as surviving childhood trauma, addictions, and abuse. This program aims to assist participants in regaining control of their thoughts and how they feel.

VIC