Activate Your Community
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Let us empower you by downloading our resources, including guides, tools and checklists, which will assist you and your community on your journey.
Sharing Cultures to Connect
Australian men in farming come from many different cultures. How can men in your community connect and share culture and stories of farming with the community and other men? Culturally diverse farmers suggested sport and whole of community events like BBQs provided positive events for social and farming connections. How to create a culturally diverse…
Hold a Women’s Wellbeing Workshop
Wellbeing activities offer opportunities for women to nurture themselves and to connect with other rural women. They also provide an introduction to longer term wellbeing strategies and help women to locate wellbeing activities in your area. How to Create Wellbeing Workshops
Start Creating: Creative Workshops for Women
Rural women want places to connect with other women, have fun, learn some new skills and spend time tapping into their creativity through painting, photography, drawing, sewing and so many other activities. Holding a creative workshop provides a powerful women’s only space to build creative and social connections. Some Tips on Holding Creative Workshops for…
Create a Rural Women’s Wellbeing Diary
Women codesigned diaries to create a tool to help women stay connected to community events, wellbeing services and to celebrate women’s achievements in rural and farming life. How to create a diary
Connect via Social Media
Do you have Facebook or Instagram? Upload a video of a service provider talking about who they are and what they do. For SOS Yorkes, this garnered over 50 shares and 3,500 views in 24 hours.
The Power of Local Service Providers
To help connect farmers and their families to health and wellbeing services, invite service providers to create short films for your social media sites about who they are and what they offer.
Let’s Reach Farmers
Coasters and bar mats were created for farmers and co-designed by a farmer suicide prevention group in Tatyoon, Mellow in the Yellow, along with an illustrator.
Start a Suicide Prevention Group (SPG)
Most of the time, rural communities are motivated to create a farmer suicide prevention group after a life has been lost. This is a call to Start Now. It takes one person to initiate and invite others in your community to join you.
Create a Service Support Directory
Farmers want to know who to speak to and that who they contact within support services will understand their experiences and farming.
Why Create Calendars?
Calendars depicting stories of mental health and recovery are powerful tools. They raise awareness about mental wellbeing, let people know they are not alone in feelings of distress and each page directs people to support.
Connect with Your Community
Events are a positive way to connect with community members, inform people about mental health and wellbeing and show that community, peer support and services are there to help.
Importance of Community
Wellbeing is more than an individual experience. It is created by strong community connections and having local support. Rural communities understand reciprocity: the giving and receiving of support in good times and in difficult times.
Network with other communities and support each other across Australia
There are many grassroots rural suicide prevention groups across Australia. The groups that participated in the co-design of resources for this site have wonderful experiences to share.