In 2016 Connection And Wellbeing Australia (CAWA) and Curtin University began a partnership exploring how they could build suicide safer campuses.
This presentation will share the findings from 9+ years of project implementation including:
- How to reduce stigma about suicide and challenge myths and stereotypes across the University Campuses (measured by the stigma of suicide scale)
- Empowering a network of trained responders using staged intervention triage and community connectors
- Working with Lived Experience/ Peer Perspectives and balancing safety and challenge
- Building the capacity of staff and student wellbeing teams to respond to the level of need required
- How to engage with stakeholders and teams that may be resistant or hesitant
- Creating safe, inclusive and intersectional spaces that support learning about suicide
- Postvention responses and how and when to continue prevention work safely to rebuild hope
- Connection and Collaboration, how to successfully manage multiple stakeholders
- Supporting regional and remote staff
- How learning to support others also develops workplace ability to manage Psychosocial Hazards
- Maximising impacts on the wider community when providing workplace learning and development about suicide
- Framing suicide first aid skills as valuable micro-credentials
- How to apply the learnings from this project to other workplace and community contexts
The session will showcase best practice learnings that can be immediately applied to your own work.