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Upcoming Events
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To register your interest in joining the MindOut Champions network, please complete the form below.
With mental health statistics so disproportionately affecting LGBTIQ+ people, we need to take action to change the way we interact, provide services, and include people. We want to collectively make our community a safer, kinder, and more inclusive place for LGBTIQ+ communities. LGBTIQ+ Health Australia offers training and additional support to professionals in community organisations and mental health services, to improve support and inclusivity of services.
Training offerings include a Champions Leadership Training - this training is for people working in mental health or suicide prevention in Australia who would like to promote LGBTIQ+ inclusive practice, both within and outside your organisation.
Undertaking this training is part of the induction to participate in the ongoing MindOut Champions network, a group of professionals working in community organisations and/or mental health and suicide prevention who meet monthly to strengthen their LGBTIQ+ inclusive practice and support each other.
For more information on MindOut Champions, follow the button below. To express your interest in joining, complete the form below.
We are excited to be offering the Champions Leadership Training again over 2 sessions in January / February 2025.
DAY 1: Friday, 24th January at 12:30 - 4:00 pm (AEDT/Sydney time)
DAY 2: Friday, 7th February at 12:30 - 4:00 pm (AEDT/Sydney time)
If you are interested to take part in the training (ONLY) please contact us via the email below. Places may be limited.
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LGBTQA+ Mental Health and Suicidality: The State (or Territory) of Affairs
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 01:00 PM
The evidence is clear: LGBTQA+ people are at greater risk of suicidal behaviours, as well as poor mental health outcomes, due to stigma, discrimination and marginalisation faced within the broader community. Ongoing research seeks to understand how new and existing data can be understood on the basis of location (e.g. at a state or territory level), within intersectional experiences and in relation to a range of social determinants.
In this webinar, we will be joined by guests from the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health, and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University - JORDAN HINTON, Research Officer and NATALIE AMOS, Research Fellow, to share recent findings including about a set of Mental Health and Suicidality: State- and Territory-based briefing papers, which have been developed in partnership with LGBTIQ+ Health Australia, with funding by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.
These briefing papers document the rates and associations of mental health and suicidality for LGBTQA+ community members at the State and Territory level in Australia. Across eight individual reports, analyses focus on State- and Territory-level rates of suicidality, mental ill-health, healthcare service access and modalities, risk factors such as discrimination and harassment experiences, and protective factors such as community- and school-based belonging. Each report also documents the association between these factors and levels of suicidality within each State and Territory in Australia, with findings broken down to ensure information is accessible and actionable for our sectors. This set of briefing papers is based on data from three major surveys of LGBTQA+ health and wellbeing – Private Lives 3, Writing Themselves In 4, and Pride and Pandemic.
WEBINAR DETAILS:
WHEN? Tuesday, 11th February at 1-2 pm (AEDT - Sydney time)
WHERE? Via ZOOM
REGISTER? CLICK THIS LINK TO REGISTER VIA ZOOM
More about our guest speakers...
Jordan Hinton (he/him)
Jordan (he/him) is a Research Officer at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health, and Society (ARCSHS) with a primary interest in LGBTQ+ health and well-being. Stemming from a background in social psychology, Jordan's research and general interests centre around understanding the mechanisms through which experiences of prejudice and discrimination impact the health, lives, and interpersonal environments of LGBTQ+ community members. Jordan also has adjacent and overlapping research interests pertaining to the following: social identity and group processes, community connectedness and resilience, prejudice and discrimination, sexual behaviours and sexual well-being, relationship dynamics, quantitative methodologies, and advanced analytic designs (e.g., experience sampling designs). 
Natalie Amos (she/her)
Natalie is a Research Fellow with the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), La Trobe University. Nat’s research centres around LGBTQA+ health and wellbeing. She currently leads the analysis and knowledge translation of findings from Australia’s largest national surveys of LGBTQA+ adults (Private Lives 3) and young people (Writing Themselves In 4).