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Community-led Safe Spaces

An important new type of community-based service to support people who are experiencing suicidal distress.

Much has been learned over the past five years through multiple Community-led Safe Space co-designs and consultations, unprecedented engagement with people with a lived experience of suicide and significant maturing of the lived experience of suicide movement.

People with a lived experience of suicide are encouraged by the respect being shown to them at a national level, and as a result are more confident to speak up and indeed dare to dream that they can in fact inform suicide prevention and system reform, including designing services that meet their needs.

 

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What are Community-led Safe Spaces?

… supporting communities to create and lead the safe spaces that meet their local needs.
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Find a Community-led Safe Space

Find the details of each Community-led Safe Space, current and coming soon!
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Volunteer at a Community-led Safe Space

Become a Working Group member or volunteer in our Community-led Safe Spaces.
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Our “000” position

Contact of emergency services by Roses in the Ocean’s Non-clinical Peer-led Services.

To ensure the safety, health, and wellbeing of all people involved in Roses in the Ocean’s Non-clinical Peer-led Services, emergency services will only be contacted in situations where:

  1. a person who is actively engaged in the service requests we do, or
  2. a person is disengaging from the service AND has communicated that they have the immediate intention of acting on their plan of suicide; or
  3. an incident occurs requiring immediate medical or other assistance.

As would be standard practice in any home, workplace or community space, emergency services will also be contacted if:

  • there is an immediate and imminent threat to the life and safety of any person, including a volunteer or 3rd party (eg: medical attention is required for an injury; a person within the service is being physically threatened by another; or an intention is disclosed to harm a 3rd party outside of the service), or
  • the physical environment where Non-clinical Peer-led Services are taking place is in danger (eg: fire).

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