June 27, 2017
IT’S HERE AGAIN! The one day in the year where you can come to work or school dressed in your PJ’s, or if that’s a bit heavy-going, maybe just go with the ol’ slippers or perhaps host a morning tea. However you wish to celebrate it, Stress Down Day is meant to be FUN! We...
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June 16, 2017
ONE IN FOUR Australians will experience a MENTAL ILLNESS in any given year With the news of further local job losses in Gippsland recently, the ability to know how to identify and support someone suffering mental distress is something we all should be aware of. Overall, the percentage of people reporting a high or very...
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May 26, 2017
Lifeline Gippsland is urgently seeking volunteers who have some knowledge of, and love plants. As we only receive 12% state government funding, our plant sales provide an important source of funding that helps us maintain vital community services such as the 13 11 14 Crisis Line, the Connect Call Back service and subsidised community training....
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May 26, 2017
Marisca Seinen, our Corporate Trainer, found herself delivering ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training) up in the Aboriginal community of Numbulwar, opposite Groote Eylandt, on the mainland of East Arnhem Land (NT). Roper Gulf Council wanted to ensure their sports/rec staff and youth workers were trained to become suicide first-aiders. ASIST teaches people to recognise...
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May 26, 2017
Applications have just opened for members of the public interested in becoming Lifeline Telephone Crisis Supporters. The Lifeline network took over a million calls last year and the demand is set to increase in coming years as people become more aware of issues like mental health, suicide, domestic violence and services such as Lifeline, that...
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May 25, 2017
Our Plant Sale was given a wonderful helping-hand by around 30 Morwell Park Primary School students. Bunnings Morwell donated terracotta pots to the school for the students to paint along with a lovely selection of plants for potting and suggested the students might like to consider a local charity to donate their finished works to. Once the students...
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May 24, 2017
It’s always a good thing to learn new skills and in the case of the latest group of new recruits to the Lifeline Crisis Support network, these skills will certainly last them a lifetime! There is currently 1 suicide every 3 hours in Australia, which is the highest rate of suicide deaths recorded in the...
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May 24, 2017
Traralgon College is very committed to their student’s wellbeing, so they invited our Corporate Trainer over to run another safeTALK session at their senior campus. safeTALK is all about becoming ‘suicide alert’; to be able to recognise when a person might be having thoughts of suicide and to know how to connect that person to...
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