This lunchtime webinar will share psychoeducational grief theories, alongside practice-based knowledge, to discuss the particular experiences that emerge for LGBTIQA+ people bereaved by suicide.
The session will be facilitated by Switchboard’s Bereavement Group Facilitators Grace Lee and June B, and will explore what to consider when supporting LGBTIQA+ people bereaved by suicide, and how to address some of the nuances these experiences hold.
A guest speaker from one of our bereavement groups will also be providing a short talk on their experience.
Who can attend
This session is open to all people who are supporting a LGBTIQA+ person bereaved by suicide, whether a friend, family member, neighbour, colleague, client or community member.
What to expect
- Grief theories introduction
- Understanding suicide
- LGBTIQA+ suicide bereavement
- What support could look like
- Resources
About Switchboard’s Suicide Prevention Program
Switchboard has made it our core work to respond to suicide in LGBTIQA+ communities. We deliver peer programs to support LGBTIQA+ people with experiences of suicide and those who provide care to our communities, including:
- A National LGBTIQA+ Lived Experience Network, where we provide free training and ongoing opportunities for community members wanting to use their lived experiences to advocate for change.
- An LGBTIQA+ Suicide Bereavement Program, which includes formalised 8-Week Groups, Drop-in Groups, Creative Bereavement sessions and QTIBPoC (Queer, Trans and Intersex Bla(c)k people and/or People of Colour) Grief Groups.
- Postvention support for organisations or groups who have experienced the suicide loss of an LGBTIQA+ person.
- CHARLEE, our online suicide prevention hub.
- Suicide skills and lived experience training: LGBTIQA+SB Lived Experiences of Suicidal Distress, ASIST and SafeTALK.
- Advocacy programs and campaigns that seek to create systemic change across the suicide prevention sector.