Coffee & Conversations
We’re excited to invite you to a casual coffee catch-up at Billy’s Café to connect and wrap up the year.
First Nations Collaborative (December)
Life Promotion and Suicide Prevention FNQ and Strategic Indigenous Solutions (SIS) warmly invite you to share your voice, experience, and insights.
This next session together we will:
Map our key, primary and secondary stakeholders
Look at who has influence, and who is missing from the conversation
Explore how advocacy works, and how our collective voice can guide system priorities
Finalise the top actions we want to take forward in 2026
Referral Workshop: Exploring What Makes a Good Referral
Join us for a practical and reflective session on the art of making and receiving referrals.
National Suicide Prevention Strategy Focus Group (online)
Are you curious about the National Suicide Prevention Strategy and how it might influence your work and commitment to understanding suicide?
Join us online on Wednesday the 19th of November to unpack it.
National Suicide Prevention Strategy Focus Group (in person)
Are you curious about the National Suicide Prevention Strategy and how it might influence your work and commitment to understanding suicide?
Join us in person in Cairns on Tuesday the 18th of November to unpack it.
First Nations Collaborative
Life Promotion and Suicide Prevention FNQ and Strategic Indigenous Solutions (SIS) warmly invite you to share your voice, experience, and insights.
Video Resource Event Launch
Join us for the launch of our new video resources ‘How to have a helpful conversation’.
Encountering Futures
We are excited to welcome back Jose Ramos, who joined us in October for the Symposium. Jose is returning to Cairns with co-facilitator Cherie Minniecon to take us deeper into the practice and understanding of futures thinking.
First Nations Collaborative #5
This is a First Nations-only event specifically for First Nations organisations and individuals. Responding to ideas raised by First Nations organisations working in the area of life promotion and suicide prevention we are hosting an opportunity for those of us dedicated to improving outcomes for our community to come together.
Collaborative #10 - Five by Five returns
Our next gathering is "Five by Five". Five different topics with five different presenters…
Coffee & Conversation
We’re excited to invite you to a casual coffee catch-up at Billy’s Café to connect and wrap up the year.
First Nations Collaborative #4
This is a First Nations-only event specifically for First Nations organisations and individuals. Responding to ideas raised by First Nations organisations working in the area of life promotion and suicide prevention we are hosting an opportunity for those of us dedicated to improving outcomes for our community to come together.
Life Promotion and Suicide Prevention FNQ Symposium
We invite you to spend the day at Bulmba-Ja theatre, changing the narrative on suicide with the Life Promotion And Suicide Prevention FNQ Collaborative.
Feedback on the National Suicide Prevention Office Draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy
We invite you to join us in an online webinar to discuss the National Suicide Prevention Office Draft Advice on the National Suicide Prevention Strategy.
First Nations Collaborative #3
This is a First Nations-only event specifically for First Nations organisations and individuals. Responding to ideas raised by First Nations organisations working in the area of life promotion and suicide prevention we are hosting an opportunity for those of us dedicated to improving outcomes for our community to come together.
Coffee and Conversation
Join us for a casual conversation about our newly released on-pagers!
First Nations Collaborative #2
This is a First Nations-only event specifically for First Nations organisations and individuals. Responding to ideas raised by First Nations organisations working in the area of life promotion and suicide prevention we are hosting an opportunity for those of us dedicated to improving outcomes for our community to come together.
Roses in the Ocean TouchPoints Training (Copy)
Become a touchpoint in your community with this free training.
Collaborative #8 - Five by Five
Our next gathering is "Five by Five". Five different topics with five different presenters…
Roses in the Ocean TouchPoints Training
Become a touchpoint in your community with this free training.
Collaborative Side Session - Access
The Pitch: Focus on Policy: a cultural shift in policy-making towards economic development and community empowerment,
Collaborative Side Session - Racism
The Pitch - A 100-year roadmap to eliminating racism: This roadmap will be broken down into 10-year increments that are locally designed and delivered.
Collaborative Side Session - Stigma and Language
This side session focuses on the critical shift from the current Stigma around Suicidal ideation to the ideal state where when people express suicidal thoughts they are accepted and not judged.
Collaborative Side Session - Education
This side session focuses on the critical shift from suspension and exclusion of students from school to a future state of no suspension/exclusion of students and a greater understanding of students.
Collaborative Side Session - Systems
This side session focuses on the critical shift from the current power over and top-down bureaucracy to a future state characterised by power with, grassroots, people-led, and person-centred approaches.
First Nations Collaborative
This is a First Nations-only event specifically for First Nations organisations and individuals. Responding to ideas raised by First Nations organisations working in the area of life promotion and suicide prevention we are hosting an opportunity for those of us dedicated to improving outcomes for our community to come together.
The Collaborative #7 - Ideas into actions
Building on the Critical Shifts for change identified late last year this Shark Tank-style event will explore ways of developing ideas into actions. Teams will work together to design and playfully pitch ideas to a panel of experts.
The Collaborative #6 - Critical Shifts
Join us for the final collaborative meeting of 2023! In ‘Critical Shift’ we’ll be picking up where we left off and finalising our focus using the themes generated in our last workshop.
LivingWorks Applied Suicide Intervention Skills
In this two-day in-person workshop, participants learn an evidence-based suicide intervention model to intervene and help prevent the immediate risk of suicide.
The Collaborative #5
Building on the information gathered at the last Collaborative meeting in July and using a Collective Impact style approach, this workshop will gather a sharp collective focus on the work.
Diamonds in the Sky Suicide Intervention Carnival
The Diamonds In The Sky Suicide Intervention Basketball Carnival is a community event that aims to provide education, awareness and intervention strategies to address suicide in the local and surrounding regions. Its aim is to reach out to all ages through participation in sport, music and dance to encourage, support and promote LIFE.
This annual event for the region to continues to support and raise awareness to reduce and eliminate suicide in the Innisfail and wider community.
You can find more information at https://www.facebook.com/DITSCarnival/