Well Well Well

8 Aug 2019

Suicide Prevention & Affirmative Practice Training

Mental Health

Suicide Prevention

Thoughts of suicide and poor mental health outcomes are things that affect the LGBTIQ community more than the general population. Why is this? What do we need to change in order to shift this reality?

Our guest Amelia, an LGBTI+ Suicide Prevention Training Officer at Thorne Harbour Health, comes on the show to discuss these issues. She brings light to the things that rarely gets a media platform to do so. She also shares with us some of the work she is doing in affirmative practice training for service providers.

Throughout the podcast we agreed to include these links below:

Mindframe – guidance on talking about suicide in the media: https://mindframe.org.au/

Livingworks – Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training: http://www.livingworks.com.au/programs/asist/

Switchboard – Peer phone support for LGBTIQ community: http://www.switchboard.org.au/

Thorne Harbour Health – Affirmative practice training: https://thorneharbour.org/lgbti-health/training-and-capacity-building/

Q-life – Anonymous and free LGBTI support and referral https://qlife.org.au/

Have a listen or download the podcast below, and please share if you resonate with the content.

This show, Episode #682 originally aired Thursday 8th August 2019.

Grab this and other podcasts from the Well, Well, Well team on iTunes | Spotify | or your favourite podcast platform – or head to joy.org.au/wellwellwell

Head to www.thorneharbour.org for more information about Thorne Harbour’s LGBTI health and well-being services

Thorne Harbour is social! facebook: facebook.com/thorneharbour  |  twitter: @ThorneHarbour  |  instagram: @thorneharbour

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 50:09 — 45.9MB) | Embed

Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Deezer | RSS

8 Jan 2026

Midsumma Preview: History Walks, Carnival and the Periodic Survey

Community, Festival, Midsumma, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC)

Dylan from the City of Yarra and Tex Mackenzie speak about the Yarra Queer History Walk, a guided tour that ...

31 Dec 2025

2025 Year In Review

Thorne Harbour Health (VAC)

Jack, Jake and Thorne Harbour Health Events Coordinator Chiron Hooson walk through a whirlwind 2025. We revisit events from Midsumma Festival, ...

24 Dec 2025

LGBTIQ+ Holiday Wellbeing Strategies

Alcohol & Drug Harm Reduction, Community, Counselling and Therapeutic Groups, Health, Mental Health, Thorne Harbour Health (VAC)

Molly Boorman from Thorne Harbour Health unpacks holiday wellbeing for LGBTIQ+ folk, from family driven stress to managing alcohol and other ...