World Suicide Prevention Day Panel - Exploring tailored suicide prevention and response approaches in Victoria

To mark World Suicide Prevention Day, the Victorian Collaborative Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing invites you to join an important conversation about suicide prevention and response.

Across Victoria, a range of services and models provide tailored support to people experiencing suicidal distress, as well as their families, carers and communities.

This online panel will bring together people with Lived and Living Experience and people working across First Nations, research, policy and service settings. Together, they will explore a range of approaches, including specialist, aftercare, community-controlled and consumer-led models of support.

The panel will consider why tailored and targeted models matter, what the broader mental health system can learn from these approaches, and how language and narratives around suicide need to shift to better support prevention and recovery.

The session will be a facilitated conversation rather than a series of formal presentations, allowing panellists to respond to and build on one another’s perspectives.

We also want to hear what matters to you. When you register, you can submit a question for the panel to consider. Questions will be grouped into themes and used to help shape the discussion on the day.

While we may not be able to address every question, your contribution will help inform the conversation.