mani bruce mitchellLGBTTI WELLNESS &

SUICIDE: WHAT DO WE NEED

TO CHANGE?

Auckland 2013

who am I?WHY am I talking today?Who am I talking about ?GLBTIQWellness - SuicideDo we need to change?

Holding my own pain, frustration anger and use it once more to motivate myself – my desire for change.How many more of our family have to die??

heather mac allister feburuary 13th 2007

Please remember to love each other, and to loveOurselves. Take care of our minds, our bodies, without fail

and against all odds know beyond doubt, thatwe are all beautiful, amazing beings.Never forget that is what I lived for.

Take care of your selves you beautiful beings

mani bruce mitchell – counsellor – clinical supervision –– change agent – educator – itanz ceo

Australia – (Health Alliance) built on our rainbow desk wreckage - GabiSwedenPeak body? First you need a body.Bodies are the sum of manymore…

Resources – sustainable onesfundinglocal – nationalat an equivalency level of our GLBTIQ population…Across the sectorBuild, sustain/develop capacity.. In all areas

mani bruce mitchell – counsellor – clinical supervision –– change agent – educator – itanz ceo

No more abandoned centres

Resources – training base line AND professional development… ALL sectorsAccreditation – sanctions?Best PracticeCommunity leadGovernment policy

Data – reliable accurateCommitment at the highest levels to CHANGE thingsand address:

homo/bi/trans/herm aphobia – is a ‘cancer’ that kills us..

end the shame the fear the isolation

commitment to human rightsnot tokena society that believes everyone is equal

that lives and breathes this24/7

This week, we celebrate the anniversary of the Universal

Declaration of Human Rights, which proclaimed in its first Article, “All

human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” It bears

repeating: All human beings – not some, not most, but all. No one gets to decide who is entitled to human

rights, and who is not.

care forvalue every part of the rainbow familyin particularbe there for our youth

mani bruce mitchell – counsellor – clinical supervision –– change agent – educator – itanz ceo

mani bruce mitchell – counsellor – clinical supervision –– change agent – educator – itanz ceo

mani bruce mitchell – counsellor – clinical supervision –– change agent – educator – itanz ceo

mani bruce mitchell – counsellor – clinical supervision –– change agent – educator – itanz ceo

As a community we need to carefor ourselves and each otherdeal with the destructive self harming behaviour in our communities

carein a coordinated cohesive waywhich means dealing with our own stuff… all of itBuilding alliancesHaving a shared vision

Deal with this toxic epidemic of bullying in our schoolsThey should be safe places for every onepupils and staff..

Stop it!

We need to care forlove and value our Rainbow elders

Is Australia a model to follow?

deal to the violenceoutside and inside our community

kids should be safewe all should beevery precious one

can we do this?Can we afford not to

we are reaching critical massnow is the time

no more wasted deathsno wasted empty lives

realising the sum of all our potential..