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.

Every community in Australia is safe, inclusive and supportive of those bereaved or impacted by suicide.
Everything we do is to support and advocate for the health and wellbeing or individuals, groups and communities bereaved or impacted by suicide.
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Our Strategic Plan

Our Strategic Plan 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 Strategic Plan 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 acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live. Our staff recognise the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community and their continuing connection to land and water, and pay respect to their elders past, present and emerging.

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Our organisation is a place where human rights are respected and people of diverse genders and sexual orientation are welcomed and supported.

StandBy – An initiative 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
Level 2/17 Southern Drive
Maroochydore
QLD 4558

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