About Lifeline
Lifeline WA is part of the national Lifeline network: the leading provider of suicide prevention services in Australia.
Lifeline WA delivers services that aim to prevent suicide, support people in crisis and create opportunities for emotional wellbeing. In their totality, these include counselling, crisis interventions, group programs, self-care resources, personal support, training and education, information and referral services. Lifeline WA believes that suicide is preventable and that by connecting people with care that helps them through a period of emotional crisis, vulnerable people can be kept safe.
We do this through;
- the provision of 24/7 telephone crisis support service: 13 11 14.
- education programs that increase understanding of suicide and its prevention.
- information and resources for help seekers and care givers.
- campaigns to raise community awareness about mental wellbeing and suicide risk.
- Dads@Lifeline; a specialist face-to-face counselling and support service for fathers who have been impacted by separation or bereavement.
- the Op Shop (Lifeline Treasures); a second hand shop that provides an income stream to support our care services.
Lifeline WA does not receive state government funding to deliver its core suicide prevention and crisis support services. The organisation is dependent upon community contribution, corporate partnerships and fundraising activities.
Lifeline Australia Inc is the national body representing Lifeline Members throughout Australia. Its primary responsibility is to manage Lifeline’s national services, including the 24 hour telephone counselling line. This management involves quality assurance, maintenance of service standards, accreditation of Lifeline Centres, and the operation of a national virtual call centre connecting telephone counsellors in 60 locations through sophisticated telephony to meet call demand.
