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Title: Lean on Me: Exploring Suicide Prevention and Mental Health-Related Peer Support in Melbourne's LGBTQ Communities   (PDF File 861.0 KB)

Author(s): Shane Worrell Andrea Waling Joel Anderson Jackson Fairchild Anthony Lyons Christopher A. Pepping Adam Bourne

Subject(s): LGBTI community; Trans community; Young people

Description: Lean on Me: Exploring Suicide Prevention and Mental Health-Related Peer Support in Melbourne’s LGBTQ Communities examines the experiences of people who help others during a mental health crisis. Drawing on data from 25 interviews and a survey of more than 300 people, this report focuses specifically on how LGBTQ people who provide peer support are impacted by doing so. Lean on Me demonstrates that burnout is a common negative impact of suicide prevention and mental health-related peer support in an LGBTQ context. This report explores the genesis of such burnout, considering how and why the need for peer support is so great within LGBTQ communities in Melbourne. The findings chapters of this report explore the context in which peer support roles are performed, the pressures community members face when being leant on and the ways in which those experiencing burnout from providing support seek to mitigate its impacts. We highlight the need for people performing peer-support roles to themselves be helped, to prevent burnout and to make support roles more sustainable. Thus, Lean on Me makes recommendations about how those being leant on can be better supported in roles that are meaningful to them – and even a matter of life and death for their fellow community members. Lean on Me received generous support from North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network (NWMPHN) through the Australian Government’s National Suicide Prevention Trial.

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Year of publication: 2021

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Title: Lean on Me: Exploring Suicide Prevention and Mental Health-Related Peer Support in Melbourne's LGBTQ Communities - Executive Summary   (PDF File 379.6 KB)

Author(s): Shane Worrell Andrea Waling Joel Anderson Jackson Fairchild Anthony Lyons Christopher A. Pepping Adam Bourne

Subject(s): LGBTI community; Trans community; Young people

Description: This study focuses on how peers and community leaders in LGBTQ communities in Melbourne provide suicide prevention and mental health-related peer support. This study is a response to a gap in the literature relating to the crisis support provision that occurs in LGBTQ communities outside professional health and mental health service settings. This document provides an executive summary of the full report.

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Year of publication: 2021

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Title: Writing Themselves In 4: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia. National report.   (PDF File 9.5 MB)

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Subject(s): LGBTI community; Trans community; Young people

Description: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia aged 14-21. This is the national report.

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2020

Title: Young People and Sexual Sources of Sexual Health Information   (PDF File 2.0 MB)

Author(s): Andrea Waling Suzanne Fraser Christopher Fisher

Subject(s): Young people

Description: This report presents research findings from a study exploring young people’s experiences in accessing and assessing sources of sexual health information

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2020

Title: Writing Themselves In 4: the health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia. South Australia summary report.   (PDF File 4.9 MB)

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Subject(s): LGBTI community; Trans community; Young people

Description: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia aged 14-21. This is the South Australia report.

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2020

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Title: Writing Themselves In 4: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia. Victoria summary report.   (PDF File 4.9 MB)

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Subject(s): LGBTI community; Trans community; Young people

Description: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia aged 14-21. This is the Victoria report.

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2020

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Title: Healing spiritual harms: Supporting recovery from LGBTQA+ change and suppression practices   (PDF File 4.4 MB)

Author(s): Timothy W. Jones Tiffany M. Jones Jennifer Power Nathan Despott Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

Subject(s): LGBTI community; Trans community; Young people

Description: This research report presents findings from a project conducted in partnership with the Brave Network, the Australian LGBTIQ+ Multicultural Council (AGMC) and the Victorian Government on recovery support needs of survivors of LGBTQA+ change and suppression (conversion) practices. The report provides a detailed account of survivors’ support needs. Its findings are intended to inform health practitioners and others working to meet the support needs of LGBTQA+ people who are recovering from the harms associated with LGBTQA+ change and suppression practices.

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Year of publication: 2020

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Title: Private Lives 3 National Report   (PDF File 2.8 MB)

Author(s): Adam O. Hill Adam Bourne Ruth McNair Marina Carman Anthony Lyons

Subject(s): LGBTI community; Mens health; Trans community; Young people

Description: Private Lives 3 (PL3) is the third iteration of the Private Lives surveys, with the first conducted in 2005 and the second in 2011. PL3 is Australia’s largest national survey of the health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people to date. It was conducted by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University. The survey provides vital information for health professionals, service providers, community organisations and governments to better understand and support the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ people in Australia. PL3 was jointly funded by the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet. This report presents data from participants of PL3 who were living in Australia at the time of the survey.

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Year of publication: 2020

Title: Writing Themselves In 4: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia. Australian Capital Territory summary report.   (PDF File 4.8 MB)

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Subject(s): LGBTI community; Trans community; Young people

Description: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia aged 14-21. This is the ACT summary report.

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Year of publication: 2020

Title: Writing Themselves In 4: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia. New South Wales summary report   (PDF File 5.0 MB)

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Subject(s): LGBTI community; Trans community; Young people

Description: The health and wellbeing of LGBTQA+ young people in Australia aged 14-21. This is the NSW report.

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2020

Title: National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health 2018   (PDF File 5.5 MB)

Author(s): Christopher M Fisher, Andrea Waling, Lucille Kerr, Rosalind Bellamy, Paulina Ezer, Gosia Mikolajczak, Graham Brown, Marina Carman, Jayne Lucke,

Subject(s): Young people

Description: Results of the 6th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2019

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Title: Young People, Sexual Literacy, and Sources of Knowledge: A Review   (PDF File 2.8 MB)

Author(s): Andrea Waling, Lucille Kerr, Suzanne Fraser, Adam Bourne, Marina Carman

Subject(s): Young people

Description: ARCSHS Monograph

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2019

Title: WA survey of secondary school students and sexual health 2018   (PDF File 1.8 MB)

Author(s): Christopher M Fisher, Sylvia Kauer, Andrea Waling, Rosalind Bellamy, Paulina Ezer, Lucille Kerr, Graham Brown, Jayne Lucke,

Subject(s): Young people

Description: Findings from the 6th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2019

Title: National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health 1992-2018: Trends Over Time   (PDF File 1.2 MB)

Author(s): Christopher Fisher Sylvia Kauer

Subject(s): Young people

Description: ARCSHS Monograph

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2019

Title: Friends, sex and benefits   (PDF File 524.2 KB)

Author(s): Hendry, N.A., Brown, G., Dowsett, G. W.

Subject(s): Young people

Description: ARCSHS broadsheet series number 01

Publication type: Broadsheet

Year of publication: 2016

Title: National Survey of Australian Secondary Students and Sexual Health 2013   (PDF File 487.6 KB)

Author(s): Anne Mitchell, Kent Patrick, Wendy Heywood, Pamela Blackman, Marian K Pitts.

Subject(s): Young people

Description: ARCSHS Monograph number 97

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2014

Title: Sexuality Education in Australia in 2011   (PDF File 1.3 MB)

Author(s): Anne Mitchell, Anthony Smith, Marina Carman, Marisa Schlichthorst, Jenny Walsh, Marian Pitts.

Subject(s): Young people

Description: Sexuality Education in Australian schools

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2011

Title: Writing Themselves in 3   (PDF File 2.9 MB)

Author(s): Lynne Hillier, Tiffany Jones, Marisa Monagle, Naomi Overton, Luke Gahan, Jennifer Blackman, Anne Mitchell.

Subject(s): Young people

Description: The third national study on the health and wellbeing of same sex attracted and gender questioning young people.

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Year of publication: 2010

Title: Secondary Students and Sexual Health 2008. Results of the 4th National Survey of Australian Secondary Students, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health   (PDF File 666.0 KB)

Author(s): Anthony Smith, Paul Agius, Anne Mitchell, Catherine Barrett, Marian Pitts.

Subject(s): Young people

Description: The Fourth National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health involved nearly 3,000 Year 10 and Year 12 students from more than 100 secondary schools from the Government, Catholic and Independent school systems and from every jurisdiction in Australia. The key findings are arranged under the key themes of knowledge, behaviour and health.

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2009

Title: Writing Themselves In Again – 6 years on. The 2nd national report on the sexual health and wellbeing of same-sex attracted young people in Australia   (PDF File 1.8 MB)

Author(s): Lynne Hillier, Alina Turner, Anne Mitchell

Subject(s): Young people

Description:

Writing Themselves In Again - 6 years on: the 2nd national report on the sexuality, health and well-being of same sex attracted young Australians is the follow up report to a similar study conducted in 1998. This earlier report documented the experiences of 750 young people at home, at school and in the community and revealed a number of negative experiences and concerning health outcomes for these young people. The dissemination of this research was at least partially responsible for a number of positive changes in support for same sex attracted young people (SSAY) in the following years. The purpose of repeating the survey in 2004 was to explore the extent to which these changes have made a difference.

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2005

Title: Secondary Students and Sexual Health 2002 - Summary of Findings - Results of the 3rd National Survey of Australian Secondary Students, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health   (PDF File 35.8 KB)

Author(s): Anthony Smith, Paul Agius, Sue Dyson, Anne Mitchell, Marian Pitts

Subject(s): Young people

Description:

The 3rd National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health involved 2,388 young people (55% young women) from Years 10 and 12 from all States and Territories. Consistent with our strategy of increasing the coverage and scope of this important national monitoring system, we have for the first time been able to include students from both the Catholic and Independent school systems. Thus, the results are representative of all students in Years 10 and 12 in Australia.

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2003

Title: Secondary Students and Sexual Health 2002 - Results of the 3rd National Survey of Australian Secondary Students, HIV/AIDS and Sexual Health   (PDF File 289.6 KB)

Author(s): Anthony Smith, Paul Agius, Sue Dyson, Anne Mitchell, Marian Pitts

Subject(s): Young people

Description:

The 3rd National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health involved 2,388 young people (55% young women) from Years 10 and 12 from all States and Territories. Consistent with our strategy of increasing the coverage and scope of this important national monitoring system, we have for the first time been able to include students from both the Catholic and Independent school systems. Thus, the results are representative of all students in Years 10 and 12 in Australia.

Publication type: Monograph

Year of publication: 2003

Title: Writing Themselves In – A national report on the sexuality, health and wellbeing of same-sex attracted young people (Re-printed 2002)   (PDF File 3.0 MB)

Author(s): Lynne Hillier, Deborah Dempsey, Lyn Harrison, Lisa Beale, Lesley Matthews, Doreen Rosenthal

Subject(s): Young people

Description:

These surveys sought information regarding sexual feelings and experiences as well as sexual and drug-taking practices in regard to STDs (including HIV) and related diseases. The source and adequacy of sexual health information for this group and their levels of support and experiences of abuse and discrimination were also elicited. The survey also charted young people’s perceptions of their quality of life and emotional well-being. In addition, participants were also asked to write stories about their experiences, including when they first knew about their sexual feelings, their relationships with family and friends, and their hopes for the future.

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Year of publication: 1998