Sandy Terry National Suicide Prevention Conference 2025

Sandy Terry

Sandy Terry is the Senior Project Officer for Suicide Prevention and Nurse Consultant, Safety, Quality and Risk in the Office of the Chief Psychiatrist, Department of Health and Wellbeing in South Australia. Forty-nine years of nursing has seen Sandy travel and work across Australia, New Zealand, Africa and London in a plethora of roles. Her most challenging role was dressing up as a life-sized cow for a clinical trial!! Her long-standing passion has been to continue working alongside those with lived experience and those from priority populations. Her commitment to suicide prevention has come from her lived experience and working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for twenty years. The drive for improvement has always been a lifelong goal and her dream is to always find a better way of doing things and improve outcomes for others. People describe Sandy as a “connector”. She loves to connect with new people and then connect those people with others. She was a part of a small group who formed the Trans-Tasman Zero Suicide Healthcare Alliance (TZSHA) which now has over 75 members across Australia and NZ. Her other passion is her beloved Wallabies rugby team. But we won’t talk about that!!!