Did you plant a flower last year?
Lifeline Virtual Garden
Open 24 hours, anytime, anywhere. A garden of remembrance, a garden of reflection. Here you can plant a flower, hold a personal silence, smile or shed a tear knowing you are amongst friends.
Whilst we may not be able to share the warmth of connection face to face for World Suicide Prevention Day, we hope this garden will be a place to come together, united in knowing you are not alone.
Lifeline is Australia’s leading suicide prevention service receiving well over 1 million in-person contacts per year.
Lifeline Australia supports the delivery of services across 40 centres working in local communities across every state and territory of Australia. The connection we make with people who are experiencing emotional distress is fundamental to all we do. We know it’s what provides the hope to continue living, but we also understand that reaching out for help is not always as easy as it sounds. Lifeline Australia is working towards a strategy that will put in place services that can be accessed by anyone at any time and in the way they feel most comfortable reaching out to us.
At Lifeline Tasmania, we remain steadfastly committed to our mission, which is to lead, develop and deliver programs and services that equip individuals and communities to be suicide safe.
Together, our team of dedicated staff and more than 400 volunteers share a common vision: A Tasmania free of suicide.
We work throughout the entire state of Tasmania delivering suicide prevention and postvention programs, including:
- 24/7 telephone crisis support via our 13 11 14 crisis line
- Support after suicide to anyone bereaved or impacted by suicide
- Suicide Bereavement Groups
- Social support programs to improve the lives of older people who are isolated and lonely
- Community education and workplace training programs in suicide prevention, mental health and recognising domestic violence
- Suicide related clinical supervision and critical incident debriefing.
Lifeline South Coast (NSW) is the region’s leading suicide prevention service that spans the coastal strip from Helensburgh in the north, to the Victorian border in south.
We are part of the national Lifeline network providing all Australians experiencing a personal crisis with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
The connection we make with people who are experiencing emotional distress is fundamental to all we do. We know it’s what provides the hope to continue living, but we also understand that reaching out for help is not always as easy as it sounds. Lifeline South Coast is committed to increasing mental health awareness and knowledge in the community, and providing vital crisis support services to the people of the Illawarra and South Coast.
Lifeline Darling Downs is one of the largest charitable organisations operating and based in the Darling Downs and South West Queensland supporting communities in a catchment which encompasses Toowoomba in the east to the Northern Territory border in the west.
We have businesses (social enterprise) and service outlets in the communities of Charleville, Dalby, Oakey, Roma, St George, Stanthorpe, Tara, Toowoomba and Warwick. We offer a range of broad-based services which include individual and family counselling, emergency relief, suicide prevention, and responses to natural disasters such as the 2011 floods and the recent drought and fire conditions in the South West.
We also deliver services which focus on specific issues or target groups and these include youth development projects, support groups for women experiencing domestic and family violence and programs to assist people living with mental illness. Each year we deliver support to more than 15,000 individuals and families across the region.
Lifeline is Australia’s leading suicide prevention service receiving well over 1 million in-person contacts per year.
Lifeline Hunter supports the delivery of services across the Hunter Region engaging with local communities to provide services such as free face to face counselling, telehealth and telephone crisis support from our Centre in Newcastle. The connection we make with people who are experiencing emotional distress is fundamental to all we do. We know it’s what provides the hope to continue living, but we also understand that reaching out for help is not always as easy as it sounds. Lifeline Hunter is continually working towards a strategy that will put in place services that can be accessed by anyone at any time and in a way they feel most comfortable.
Lifeline’s reputation as an acknowledged leader in crisis support and suicide prevention, in part, has been establish by the work of Centres like Lifeline Mid Coast with our commitment in seeking to provide high standards of crisis support and suicide prevention services.
Lifeline Mid Coast operates suicide bereavement groups, suicide attempters groups (Eclipse), hospital to recovery programs, DV-Alert and DV-Aware programs and delivers Psychological First Aid programs to rural communities in crisis. At Lifeline Mid Coast, we grow hope.
As part of the Lifeline network, we are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, offering real support when difficulties seem overwhelming. The connection we make with people who are experiencing emotional distress is fundamental to all we do. We know it’s what provides the hope to continue living, but we also understand that reaching out for help is not always as easy as it sounds. We are always working towards a strategy that will put in place services that can be accessed by anyone at any time and in the way they feel most comfortable reaching out to us.
Lifeline WA provides all Western Australians experiencing a personal crisis or thinking about suicide with access to 24 hour crisis support and suicide prevention services.
Our 13 11 14 service is a nationally-routed crisis support number, available every day of the year, 24/7. It is available to anyone - regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. Last financial year, more than 66,000 Western Australians contacted us for support via the 13 11 14 service. Many were after advice or self-help information for friends and family.
Others were reaching out for someone to listen to their concerns. Typically, callers in crisis find that painful changes or problems are increasing their distress and overwhelming their capacity to cope. The connection we make with people who are experiencing emotional distress is fundamental to all we do. We know it’s what provides the hope to continue living, but we also understand that reaching out for help is not always as easy as it sounds.
Our mission is To prevent suicide, support people in crisis and reduce the stigmas, which can be a barrier to people seeking help.
The last few years have been so tough. For our farmers, rural communities, families – and everyone in Queensland. Together, we’ve made it through drought, floods and fire. And today, Queenslanders are rebuilding their lives and communities during a pandemic.
It’s no wonder there are more calls to Lifeline than ever before. The connection we make with people who are experiencing emotional distress is fundamental to all we do.
A single conversation can give a person in crisis the strength to go on – but not if their call for help goes unanswered.
Will you help make sure that no matter how bad things get, there is always someone to answer their call?
Lifeline Macarthur and Western Sydney
Lifeline Macarthur and Western Sydney seeks to act as a proactive community stakeholder and thought leader in suicide prevention by creating suicide safer communities through our 13 11 14 crisis support line, suicide prevention support, suicide bereavement support, mental health training and financial counselling, all in support of an Australia free of suicide.
Lifeline South East is a community based Lifeline Centre where people can give and receive care and support.
As a Lifeline Centre we are best known for our contribution to the National Telephone Crisis Support Service but we also provide a broad range of support, information, counselling and referral services which focus on the needs of our local Limestone Coast community. These include the Limestone Coast Gambling Help Service, financial counselling services, Suicide Awareness Training and a local Care Ring Service which is a daily phone call from a friendly and cheerful volunteer to those that are living alone in our community. In addition to these services, we provide support and information to those bereaved by suicide via our monthly newsletter, Sharing the Journey. Our centre aims to encompass the whole of the Limestone Coast community in each of our services.
Now in its second year, AIS partnership with Lifeline is connecting with communities about their own experiences of grief, loss and mental health challenges.
Twenty-two elite athletes from a range of National Sporting Organisations and the National Institute Network have been selected as Lifeline Community Custodians to raise awareness about suicide and mental illness, to reduce stigma and encourage vulnerable people to seek help.
Many of the Lifeline Community Custodians have lived experience with suicide and mental illness and they are all passionate about giving back to the community and helping Lifeline reduce the increasing rates of suicide in Australia.
The athletes attend community events, telling their own personal stories of resilience, and sharing the message of hope around the country.
Lifeline Melbourne is part of the broader network of over 40 Lifeline centres throughout Australia offering support to people in crisis 24/7, 24 hours a day on the 13 11 14 number.
Every year Lifeline Melbourne partners with Support After Suicide to host a suicide awareness walk with the theme "It's OK to Talk about Suicide." Our walk is to remember and honor those lives lost to suicide and to provide support and comfort to families and loved ones. Together we believe that we can make a difference to bring suicide out of the shadows and open up conversations that will save lives.
Support After Suicide, a program of Jesuit Social Services, supports those who have lost a loved one to suicide. We offer counselling, group and online support to anyone who is bereaved by suicide. You can find more information about us at www.supportaftersuicide.org.au
Lifeline Central West has a long and distinguished record of community support in the central west of NSW. Starting from humble beginnings in Bathurst in 1979, the organisation has grown its footprint to cover approximately 1/3 of rural NSW.
From the commencement of services in Bathurst, Lifeline opened a telephone centre in Orange in 1984 and expanded the service to Dubbo in 2000. Over the intervening period, Lifeline Central West has been at the forefront of the provision of crisis support for those that need assistance through the Lifeline national 13 11 14 24/7 telephone service.
Lifeline Central West also provides both problem financial and problem gambling counselling to the central west and has commenced an outreach training service focussed on mental health wellbeing designed to complement the nationally renowned Lifeline 13 11 14 service.
