StandBy Support After Suicide has developed a Lived Experience Framework that leads to tangible actions and outcomes

At StandBy Support After Suicide lived experience refers to those who have their own personal experience of being bereaved by suicide.

The Lived Experience Framework provides the foundation to guide, support and progress lived experience engagement and participation within StandBy.

The intended audience for the Framework is primarily staff and management working across the StandBy program to guide and inform their work. However, it also offers an important opportunity for people with lived experience and the partners and communities we work with to hold us accountable on our commitments, as well as modelling a commitment to lived experience engagement and participation that we hope to see more broadly across systems and services.

Our commitments

  1. Leadership, governance and strategy
  2. Consultation and co-design
  3. Lived experience-led service delivery
  4. Lived Experience Workforce development
  5. Organisational commitment
  6. Evaluation and learning

Lived experience engagement and participation at StandBy will contribute to:

  • Embracing the input of those with lived experience in a jointly owned national governance structure
  • Increasing and diversifying StandBy’s service offering
  • Delivering contemporary, quality and consistent support after suicide
  • Increasing national awareness and achieving a genuine national presence as the leader in support after suicide
  • Increasing community capacity, connection and resilience through person-centred support and whole-of community responses

Our guiding principles

Mutuality
Transparency
Respect
Shared power
Authenticity
Inclusion
Self-determination
Compassion

Lived experience is central to everything we do

Learn more and access our Lived Experience Framework here:

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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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