Nadine Toussaint, the Chair of Gay and Lesbian Community Services WA has welcomed the announcement of significant funding to the LGBT Suicide Prevention Scheme.
‘We’ve been funded for a year to deliver the project and it’s going to be about engaging the community from community events and activities and initiatives until June next year.’
The organisation has set up a community to committee to help drive the project and Toussaint is looking forward to the group’s first meeting and getting the scheme underway.
‘The scheme is about mental health and well being, we will be developing resources around looking after yourself and your mates and while it’s around the prevention of suicide, it’s also about mental well being and making community connections.’
The funding grant comes twelve months after OUTinPerth questioned the amount of time that the state’s Mental Health Commission and the Minister for Mental Health Helen Morton was taking to approve funding for suicide prevention in the LGBTIQ community.
