Safe Haven
Safe Haven is a non-clinical place you can go if you’re feeling distressed or having suicidal thoughts. It is a safe place to talk openly about how you are feeling and what you’re going through.
There, you can have a yarn and talk with a peer-support worker who has their own lived experience of mental distress and suicide.
If you don’t feel like chatting, you can spend time in a quiet space and listen to music. You choose what is right for you.
It’s free. No appointment or Medicare required.
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Safe Haven Gosford
Open:
Monday – Friday 9am – 4:30pm.
Closed on public holidays.
Contact details
Address: “Burung Ngura” Corner of Ambulance Road & Holden Street, Gosford NSW 2250.
Phone: (02) 4394 1597
Suicide Prevention on
the Central Coast
In 1996 the Central Coast Suicide Safety Network (SSN) was established in partnership with the Central Coast Coroner, NSW Police, Lifeline Central Coast, Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) Health Promotion and CCLHD Mental Health Service. This partnership has gone from strength to strength harnessing support and joint working projects across the Central Coast community regarding suicide prevention initiatives.
Suicide Prevention Central Coast Alliance was formed in 2016 to develop a community response to suicide deaths on the Central Coast. The first successful initiative was to tender for funding from the Black Dog Institute.to implement the LifeSpan project.
The purpose of Suicide Prevention Central Coast is to provide strategic direction and informed decision making on the ongoing collaborative development, implementation and local evaluation of the LifeSpan suicide prevention model across the Central Coast.
In 1996 the Central Coast Suicide Safety Network (SSN) was established in partnership with the Central Coast Coroner, NSW Police, Lifeline Central Coast, Central Coast Local Health District (CCLHD) Health Promotion and CCLHD Mental Health Service. This partnership has gone from strength to strength harnessing support and joint working projects across the Central Coast community regarding suicide prevention initiatives.
Suicide Prevention Central Coast Alliance was formed in 2016. In 2016, the Central Coast was successful in being selected as one of four trial sites in NSW for the Black Dog Institute’s LifeSpan initiative. LifeSpan was funded by the Paul Ramsey Foundation.
The Suicide Prevention Central Coast Alliance provide strategic direction and informed decision making on the implementation and local evaluation of the LifeSpan Central Coast trial site from June 2017 to December 2019.
Building on the legacy of the Lifespan trial, we have now reset our mission for the future. We are building the capacity within the Alliance, its member agencies, and the community to incorporate Toward Zero Suicides initiatives that are responsive to the needs of our community, seek to provide leading best-practice crisis care and support, build on local community resilience, and improve systems and practices.
What is LifeSpan?
LifeSpan is an innovative, world-class approach to suicide prevention and is the new name for the Systems Approach to Suicide Prevention initially developed on behalf of the NSW Mental Health Commission by the National health and Medical research Council (NHMRC) Centre for Research Excellence in Suicide Prevention (CRESP) and Black Dog Institute.
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