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17-01-2020 01:23 PM
17-01-2020 01:23 PM
New topic area coming on Monday!
Hi everyone!
From 20 Jan, SANE will be delivering a new suicide prevention campaign that is targeting two local areas – Northern Beaches of Sydney and Mackay & surrounds in Far North Queensland. The campaign is called Better Off With You and uses first person storytelling to reach people who are contemplating suicide.
It has been developed in consultation with people with lived experience, to challenge the common misconception held by people contemplating suicide that they are a burden their friends, their family and others around them.
Six individuals from the regions are sharing their personal stories and they each challenge the misconception that they are a burden to those close to them and encourage others who may be considering taking their own lives to reach out for help and support via the Better Off With You website (will go live on 20 Jan)
The Better Off with You campaign will run for six weeks. Through consultations during the campaign’s development it was found there was a need for people to have a space to talk about their response to the campaign and the feeling of burden in general. To provide this, the Better Off With You website will feature a syndicated version of the Forums (just like all our other syndicated partners) and we will also be trialling a new topic area on the Forums called Better Off With You. Similar to Our Stories, Something’s Not Right etc, and it will sit along side these in Forum navigation.
There will already be some threads in that topic area for you to get involved in from Monday so be sure to check it out and share your experiences, strategies and thoughts with newbies that may come through!