A grassroots Australian Charity inspiring a society that deeply values and prioritises individual and collective safety, health and well-being; promoting community led solutions to the intersecting realities that contribute to the alarming rates of suicide we experience.
WHY WE EXIST
LEARN MORESuicide is the leading cause of death for Australians aged 15 to 49 years. About 1 in 8 Australians has seriously considered suicide at some stage in their life and the ripple effect of a completed suicide is estimated to impact a further 135 people.Behind each of these statistics is a story. Those stories often shed light on the complex and intersecting realities that can compound and result in suicide ideation, attempts and completion. Bullying, gendered violence, domestic violence, entrenched disadvantage, discrimination, interactions with the justice and child protection system and unaddressed childhood trauma to list a few.Turn to Me is not another Mental Health Campaign that suggests the solution to poor Mental-Ill Health is for those struggling to simply speak up. We aim to bring awareness and community led change to the deeper, intertwined and often unacknowledged roots that continue to drive statistics up.
MENTAL ILL-HEALTH PROMOTION & PREVENTION PRINCIPLES
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Developing healthier relationships with thoughts, feelings and emotions and strengthening our capacity for both support seeking and offering behaviours.
DE-STIGMATIZING
Challenge and change outdated stigmas and norms attached to Mental Ill-Health through educational experiences that mobilise the power of community settings to eliminate stigma from their fabric.
SECTOR COLLABORATION
To productively engage and collaborate with and alongside stakeholders across sectors and settings working to achieve similar goals and outcomes in Mental Health Promotion and Prevention.
SOCIAL COHESION & SAFE COMMUNITIES
To protect individuals from social isolation and increase social safety through the creation of places that facilitate connection, purpose and belonging; where all people can express and thrive.
RESILIENCE
Increase the capacity of Individuals and collective communities to cope with adversity and to avoid crisis when confronted by challenges, hardships and life stressors.
SOCIAL JUSTICE & EQUITY
Advocate for marginalised groups and communities and their complex experiences of Mental Ill-health.
"The experiences of being only millimetres away from losing my sister forever, losing a cousin to suicide while in youth detention, seeing the spiralling impacts of gendered violence and witnessing the rippling impacts of multiple spades of youth suicide in my local community are the heart wrenching realities that have ultimately inspired the creation of Turn To Me.- CEO, Will Austin.
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