Changing the Landscape is a commitment to creating a future where LGBTIQA+SB suicide prevention is a national priority.
We are a national campaign calling on the healthcare sector and governments to take action toward a suicide prevention system where LGBTIQA+SB peer-led services are sector leaders, and our lived experiences shape our care.
We are working towards a future where LGBTIQA+SB people have the opportunity to live bright, vibrant, proud lives, just like everyone else.
Why do we need to change the landscape of LGBTIQA+SB suicide prevention?
Our LGBTIQA+SB communities know too well what is like to have a lived experience of suicide.
Systemic discrimination and social stigma continue to impact the wellbeing of our communities. We are more likely to experience suicidal distress than non-LGBTIQA people and in the fabric of our communities, we bare the grief of too many LGBTIQA+SB lives that have ended in suicide.
Despite the urgent need, our LGBTIQA+SB peer and lived experience community support services are severely underfunded. Generalist suicide prevention services often do not reach or appropriately support LGBTIQA+SB people.
Our communities are strong, and we deserve better from the systems that are meant to support us.
We need recognition, community leadership and funding for change.
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Switchboard Victoria is based on the lands of the Yaluk-ut Weelam clan of the Boon Wurrung peoples. We acknowledge that our work takes place on lands that are under colonial occupation and that sovereignty has never been ceded. We hope to pay our deepest respects to Boon Wurrung elders, past and present, and wish to extend this respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People across this Country we know as Australia.
