LivingWorks Capacity Building Project: LGBTIQ+ Adaptation of Suicide Prevention Training

LivingWorks Australia has collaborated with representatives of the LGBTIQ+ community to adapt the ASIST and safeTALK evidence-based methods of suicide prevention and intervention.

The ASIST and safeTALK training seeks to build capacity to provide suicide intervention for staff and volunteers at LGBTIQ+ organisations, staff at mainstream organisations that focus on supporting LGBTIQ+ populations, and informal and formal LGBTIQ+ leaders.  

The program involves: 

• delivery of LivingWorks Start training 
• adaptation of the ASIST and safeTALK training for LGBTIQ+ participants
• training LGBTIQ+ ASIST and safeTALK trainers to deliver the adapted training 
• delivery of the LGBTIQ+ ASIST and safeTALK training.

Development of a culturally safe and relevant suicide prevention training package for the LGBTIQ+ community that was community-led and designed.  

Participation at June 2021: 

• 60 individuals trained in Start training from the Noun Project
• 117 individuals trained in LGBTIQ+ safeTALK (across 15 training sessions) 
• 11 safeTALK trainers trained 
• 15 ASIST trainer trained 
• 295 individuals trained in LGBTIQ+ ASIST (across 21 training sessions) 

Read the evaluation report for this project below and learn more about how this project was evaluated.