LivingWorks showcasing international research at Adelaide conference
LivingWorks is delighted to announce our keynote sponsorship of the 2024 National Suicide Prevention Conference taking place on Kaurna Country, Adelaide. As keynote sponsor, LivingWorks is supporting Associate Professor Laura Shannonhouse of Georgia State University to present on her innovative suicide prevention research focused on older adults, and understanding how evidence-based suicide intervention skills like […]
MEDIA: Unprecedented demand, yet NSW funds set to end
Below is the full statement from LivingWorks Australia, associated with the media story published 20 April 2024 in the Newcastle Herald: ‘Unprecedented demand’, yet funds for suicide prevention program set to end source Since the beginning of January this year, LivingWorks Australia has seen unprecedented demand for suicide prevention training from schools, communities and first […]
Greater Geelong, Surf Coast, Golden Plains residents offered free suicide prevention training
Hundreds of locals throughout the Greater Geelong region can learn the skills to help keep their community safer from suicide.
Video: World Suicide Prevention Day
This World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10, #CreatingHopeThroughAction is a reminder that we can all play a role in suicide prevention. Our actions, no matter how big or small, and reaching in to check on those around us, may provide hope to someone with thoughts of suicide. Together with LivingWorks, let’s create safer communities where people with […]
Keynote showcases training first responders at scale in suicide intervention skills
1 MARCH, 2023: The statistics are well-known: Police, paramedics and firefighters are at a higher risk of dying by suicide than the average Australian. This is a large scale problem, so what is a large scale solution? LivingWorks Australia’s lead suicide intervention skills trainer, Belinda Connell, is presenting a keynote at the Frontline Mental Health Conference […]
Minister for Indigenous Australians launches Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide intervention training program
3 NOVEMBER, 2021: Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians The Hon Ken Wyatt AM MP today officially launched the world’s first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicide intervention training program. Minister Wyatt said: “The fact that Indigenous people are dying by suicide at twice the rate of non-Indigenous Australians demonstrates that we need to use every […]