Suicide Prevention Resources
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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
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.
PODCAST
Let’s talk about suicide
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.
LGBTIQA+ Suicide Prevention Fact Sheets
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Fact Sheet: How to Talk About LGBTIQA+ Suicide Safely
This guide offers communication tools to help you in speaking purposefully and safely about LGBTIQA+ suicide.
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Fact Sheet: LGBTIQA+ Suicide Loss
This fact sheet has been written to raise your awareness about queer grief and guide you through helpful ways to support LGBTIQA+ people who are bereaved by suicide.
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Fact Sheet: Supporting LGBTIQA+ People During Public Discussions About Suicide Loss
This fact sheet provides information about supporting LGBTIQA+ people, particularly LGBTIQA+ people bereaved through suicide, when discussions about suicide are widely spread through media.