Our shared direction

The StandBy Support After Suicide program was developed by Youturn (formerly United Synergies) in direct response to local need for coordinated, community support after several suicides which happened close together in a small Sunshine Coast community in 2002. This led to the development of StandBy, a community-based program dedicated to supporting people and communities across Australia bereaved or impacted by suicide. Our name reflects the core purpose – the provision of support for Suicide Bereavement represented by capital S and B in StandBy.

Standby strategic plan
Standby strategic plan
Standby strategic plan

Program Strategy

Our Program Strategy has been developed through input and insights from StandBy’s Lived Experience Advisory Group, a sample of representatives from StandBy service provision sites and the StandBy National Office team. The plan is also informed by a review of leading evidence, policy documents and sector trends relating to suicide postvention. In the process of developing this plan, we recognise the critical importance of a broad range of perspectives in shaping the continued delivery and growth of StandBy across Australia. Moving forward, StandBy is committed to fostering joint ownership of the Program Strategy as we are ‘all in this together’.

Lived Experience

A lived experience of suicide bereavement is being bereaved and/or impacted by suicide.

People with a lived experience of suicide bereavement bring insight, wisdom, and perspective that is critical to informing best practice approaches in postvention…

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National Representative Group

StandBy ensures that organisational direction is underpinned by a combination of lived experience, service provision partners and the StandBy National team. To fulfil our strategic ‘shared’ direction priority, StandBy has established a jointly owned national governance structure…

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Friends of StandBy

Promoting awareness of suicide loss, the aim of the program is to:

  • To help raise the profile of StandBy – Support after Suicide
  • To promote awareness of the impact of exposure to and/or bereavement after a suicide loss
  • Assist with promotion to help reduce stigma of mental health and suicide
  • Encourage people to improve help seeking behaviours and to speak up
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StandBy is QIP Accredited as an organisation. Implemented by Suicide Prevention Australia and assessed by independent, not-for-profit accreditation provider, Quality Innovation Performance Limited (QIP), the Suicide Prevention Accreditation Program supports organisations to deliver safe, high-quality and effective suicide prevention and postvention programs.

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StandBy respectfully acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as Australia’s First People and Traditional Custodians. We value their cultures, identities, continuing connection to country, waters, kin and community. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and emerging. We are committed to making a positive contribution to the wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, by providing services that are welcoming, safe, culturally appropriate, and inclusive.

StandBy acknowledges and pays respect to elders, advocates, activists, and allies of our LGBTIQA+SB communities. We affirm the support provided and acknowledge the cost involved in standing up for the rights of LGBTIQA+SB people.

StandBy recognises and honours the continued contribution of those with a lived experience of suicide bereavement. The courage, insight and wisdom of these unique experiences, strengthens the work that we do. We also acknowledge and remember the lives that have ended due to suicide and we encourage ongoing support and care for yourself and each other.

StandBy – An initiative of Youturn jointly funded by the Australian Commonwealth, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland and Victorian Governments.

For immediate crisis support call Lifeline on 13 11 14 Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636 or QLife on 1800 184 527 or 13yarn.org.au on 13 92 76. In case of an emergency, call 000.

StandBy Head Office
1B Maud Street,
Nambour
QLD 4560

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