In the training session, participants will learn how to recognise and work with someone who might be having thoughts of suicide and connect them with services that could support them.
According to LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, people in the LBGTIQA+ community have a higher risk of suicidal behaviours than their peers and experience poorer mental health outcomes.
This is why accredited training in suicide prevention such as safeTALK are vital for the LGBTIQA+ community, Goulburn Valley Pride Damien Stevens-Todd secretary said.
“Suicide is sensitive for many but when you add the layers of discrimination and stigma that LGBTIQA+ people are going through, the complexity of suicide and opening up can be alleviated and heightened,” he said.
“This targeted training is to acknowledge that there are vulnerable groups that are at higher rates of suicide and worsened mental health outcomes.”
The event is aimed at helping LGBTIQA+ people support each other as well as anyone else that wants to know how to best support their friends and family in this community.
“LBGTIQA+ people are often the go-to person for friends when times get tough or when things are difficult and conversations around suicide occur,” Mr Stevens-Todd said.
“So this short course is designed to support LBGTIQA+ people to support their on LBGTIQA+ peers, family and friends too.”
This free event will be held at GOTAFE on Saturday, June 24, from 9.30am to 1.30pm in the Harder auditorium.
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