Lived Experience Insights Report

Earlier this year we partnered with Roses in the Ocean to explore the Life Promotion and Suicide Prevention FNQ Critical Shifts through the lens of lived and living experience.

As a reminder the Critical Shifts for change focussed on education, racism, access, stigma and language, systems and family and domestic violence.

The intent was to deepen our collective understanding of what meaningful change could look like across communities, services and systems and to seed the development of future lived experience-led dialogue and leadership in Far North Queensland.

What emerged was a set of rich insights.

We heard that connection, community, culture, trust, belonging, safety and self-determination were consistently identified as important foundations for wellbeing and suicide prevention.

Looking forward the insights in this report provide an opportunity to inform ongoing conversations, collaborative action and future work across the region.

We invite you use the insights and suggested actions as learning reflections, as policy drivers and as inspirations for further work to enhance existing suicide prevention efforts.