At Roses in the Ocean, we often act as a conduit for third party organisations to engage with our Lived Experience Collective and the broader lived experience of suicide community, within a diverse range of projects.
Below you will find the current lived experience opportunities and engagement projects available through Roses in the Ocean, as well as historic engagement projects involving people with a lived experience of suicide.
Are you ready to be involved in suicide prevention? Learn more here.
Current Engagement Opportunities
EOI open! LGBTIQA+SB lived experience communities are taking action!
LGBTIQA+SB suicide prevention needs to be on everyone’s agenda, yet our lived experiences and our leadership is still not being recognised. Our communities deserve better. Together, we are changing the agenda.
Switchboard Victoria is developing a national Declaration of LGBTQIA+SB Lived Experience Leadership in Suicide Prevention (the Declaration).
The Declaration is a document that individuals, healthcare organisations and governments can sign onto, to make a commitment to safe suicide prevention service delivery for LGBTQIA+SB people at all levels of healthcare.
As part of developing the Declaration we are running 10 co-design sessions with intersectional community members starting in September, and we need you to get involved!
We are looking for diverse LGBTQIA+SB people with lived experiences of suicide. Every LGBTQIA+SB person has a unique story to tell and we want to include the perspectives and experiences of people from intersecting parts of community.
All sessions will be held online via Teams. Click below to learn more about how you can get involved in making suicide prevention history.
Past Engagement Opportunities
The Victorian Government was looking for LGBTIQA+ people in Victoria who have attempted suicide or experience suicidal behaviour to help design a new mental health service, specifically an aftercare service for LGBTIQA+ people (including young people, adults and older adults).
This project was being led by Victorian Department of Health in collaboration with Impact Co. The steering committee is chaired by Switchboard Victoria and has membership from Roses in the Ocean, VMIAC, Self Help Addiction Resource Centre (SHARC), and Tandem.
We invited LGBTIQA+ people in Victoria who have a lived, or living experience, of suicidality to have their say about this service. This includes people who are bereaved by suicide, or who have been a carer of someone experiencing a suicidal crisis.
The Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care has engaged the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care to undertake a scoping study for the design and development of national minimum standards for Safe Space services.
We’re seeking your views in an online consultation on the safety and quality expectations for Safe Space services.
These consultations will build on previous work in this space, including interviews with relevant stakeholders from across the suicide prevention and health sectors.
At the end of the consultations, the Commission will provide a report to the Department on options for national standards for Safe Space services and an associated accreditation framework.
For more information and to view the full discussion paper here.
Consultation times and dates:
29 August | 12:00pm – 2:00pm
29 August | 4:30pm – 6:30pm
30 August | 12:00pm – 2:00pm
31 August | 4:30pm – 6:30pm
5 September | 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Researchers at Everymind are seeking partners, spouses, family members, friends and colleagues across Australia who are supporting the mental health of paramedics to trial a new free online program.
The new research project is designed to support paramedics experiencing any symptoms of mental ill-health or suicidal distress.
Where: Australia-wide (online)
What: In partnership with the University of Melbourne, we are seeking men with a lived experience of suicide to be a part of the Lived Experience Advisory for the Buoy Project – which is all about preventing suicide in boys and men.
Where: Australia-wide (online)
What: The National Suicide Prevention Office (NSPO) has commissioned the University of Melbourne team to prepare a blueprint paper called Understanding Suicide.
The blueprint paper will inform the direction and scope of the NSPO and will answer two key questions:
- How can we more clearly define self-harm and suicidal behaviours?
- What should we be doing to prevent them?
We are putting together a lived experience advisory group to guide the project.
Where: Australia-wide
What: Are you an ex-serving Defence member who has had contact with Queensland emergency services during a suicide crisis?
OR
Are you a family member of an ex-serving Defence member who has had contact with Queensland emergency services during the veteran’s suicide crisis?
The Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation (GMRF) aims to explore the lived experiences of ex-serving Defence members who have been involved in a suicide-related call to emergency services, in addition to examining the experiences of their family and emergency services.
Where: Australia-wide (online study)
What: A speaker to say a few words on the importance that positive engagement can have on a person in a moment of crisis for Queensland Rail’s R U Ok Day event.
When: 27 April, 2023
What: Recruiting 3 young people with a lived experience of suicide for a webinar which will center around youth lived experience inclusion in research from the standpoint of how to empower young people, create opportunities to meaningfully engage and contribute to research, as well as to provide some practical guidance to researchers on how to enable youth inclusion.
What: Beyond Blue are updating their ‘Beyond Now’ explainer video, for viewing on televisions in GP waiting rooms and they’re hoping to gain insight and feedback from individuals with lived experience of suicide to ensure the video is fit for this purpose, that the content is appropriate and resonates, and to consider any potential barriers/enablers to discussing safety planning with a GP.
Where: Australia-wide (online)
This opportunity has now closed.
What: Everymind is currently recruiting participants for a number of focus groups exploring communications through the use of imagery and language regarding mental health and wellbeing, mental illness, suicide, self-harm and alcohol and drug use. Participants will be asked to share their views about safe, inclusive, and non-stigmatising public representations of mental health issues, suicidal behaviour and alcohol and other drugs.
A diverse range of participants are being sought for this research, with a particular focus on people with professional or personal experience of suicide.
Where: Australia-wide (online)
Where: Australia-wide (online)