With a growing awareness nationally and internationally on suicide prevention strategies, we decided to host a symposium on the theme ‘Changing the Narrative’.

We had a very busy World Suicide Prevention Day. Check out a few of the events we held and attended for WSPD in September!

Gill Townsend, Manager (Suicide Prevention) went to the National Suicide Prevention Conference looking for inspiration and ideas to feed into our work for the Life Promotion and Suicide Prevention FNQ Collaborative where our recent focus has been on systems, racism, education, stigma and language, access and family and domestic violence.

Life Promotion FNQ member Steph shares her learnings from the 25th Annual Suicide Prevention Conference held in Adelaide earlier this month.

A guest blog from our Collaborative member Trevor Philpot who joined us at the National Suicide Prevention Conference 2024.

These last few months, we have had more wonderful connections and conversations with other like-minded people interested in building strong healthy communities and exploring new narratives about suicide and suicide prevention.

Queensland Mental Health Commissioner Ivan Frkovic, entrepreneurial social change leader Jesse Martin and award-winning Town Planner Nikki Huddy joined 40 collaborative members from across the region bringing their ideas to this event.

We are taking time to look back at what we have learned over 2023 in our Life Promotion and Suicide Prevention FNQ initiative. What challenges have we uncovered that can shape our work through 2024?

Key themes, such as humanity, compassion, social connection, equity, early intervention, and embracing bravery and boldness, prominently emerged during the event.