TSPCN Meeting October 2025 Hobart

Please join us for the next Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Community Network (TSPCN) meeting!

This is your chance to connect, share knowledge, and collaborate with others contributing to suicide prevention in Tasmania.

At this meeting, you will have the opportunity to hear from guest speakers:
Kickstart Arts - Find out more about the vibrant community space we’re meeting in, and the organisation behind it, supporting creativity, connection, and wellbeing. 

Rhi Hamilton - Hear from MHCT’s Senior Project Officer at the Lived Experience Training Hub (LEx Hub), who also works as a peer worker with the Butterfly Foundation. Rhi draws on over five years of peer work experience to shape her work in suicide prevention.

Gillian Smith – Hear from Skretting, winner of a 2025 LiFE Award for Best Practice in Workplace Suicide Prevention, and learn about the initiatives they’ve introduced to foster a mentally healthy and supportive workplace.

The Department of Health – Receive a direct update on the Department’s current initiatives and priorities, and learn how they are working to strengthen suicide prevention efforts across Tasmania.

At the meeting, we’ll also take time to discuss the Tasmanian LiFE Awards, as well as ongoing advocacy work.

This meeting is being held at the Kickstart Arts - Old School Room, in New Town. We'll email you more information prior to the event. 

For catering and logistics, kindly register by Wednesday, 22 October, 2025. Light refreshments will be provided.

We hope to see you there!

About the TSPCN:
The Tasmanian Suicide Prevention Community Network (TSPCN) provides all Tasmanians with an interest in suicide prevention, with a voice and the ability to influence decision-making in suicide prevention at a state and local level.

Anyone can become a member of the TSPCN, and the level of your involvement with the activities of the TSPCN is your choice.

The TSPCN holds statewide meetings for members to network, learn and share with one another about initiatives in regard to promoting mental health, reducing stigma around mental illness and suicide, suicide prevention, early intervention and postvention.

New members are very welcome, sign up for FREE here: http://www.suicidepreventiontas.org.au/join_us

Contact: 
Questions? Please email us - tspcn@reltas.com.au