Suicide Prevention - Peer Support volunteering

Peer CARE Companion in Community is a face-to-face, community-based suicide prevention service. It provides a safe place for people to connect with our Peer CARE Companions who share a similar lived experience.

A lived experience of suicide is:

• having experienced suicidal thoughts
• survived a suicide attempt
• supported a loved one through suicidal crisis
• been bereaved by suicide

Peer CARE Companions meet people ‘where they are at’ locally and in community. Support may vary from meeting in a community setting, having a coffee with someone, supporting them to navigate additional supports, going for a walk or connecting for a chat. You will have flexibility and be able to update availability to best suit your lifestyle as needed.

Peer CARE Companions are:

• Comfortable talking about suicide

• Comfortable sitting with another person's lived experience and their feelings and emotions

• Able to listen deeply and let people talk about their experiences

The following training is provided:

TouchPoints Workshop (4.5 hours)

Self-paced online modules (4 to 6 hours)

Peer CARE Companion Workshop (6.5 hours)

Service Induction and some practice calls (3 hours)

To register your interest in becoming a volunteer, please apply below. We will then send you a link to create your Volunteer Profile in Volaby and book yourself in for a Readiness Call with a team member from Roses in the Ocean.

For more information, reach out to [email protected] and our Regional Coordinator will be in touch.