What We Do
Safe spaces are ‘drop in’ style spaces that offer a non-clinical alternative to emergency departments for people experiencing emotional distress or suicidal crisis. Safe spaces provide warm, welcoming environments free from stigma where people can reduce their distress and choose to speak with volunteers who have their own lived experience of suicidal crisis, caring for a loved one who has experienced thoughts of suicide, or of being bereaved by suicide.
Perspectives of hope come from shared experience and people can thrive when accessing this meaningful peer support with the opportunity to speak openly about suicide finding a connection through mutual understanding in a time of crisis.
What We Do
Safe spaces are ‘drop in’ style spaces that offer a non-clinical alternative to emergency departments for people experiencing emotional distress or suicidal crisis. Safe spaces provide warm, welcoming environments free from stigma where people can reduce their distress and choose to speak with volunteers who have their own lived experience of suicidal crisis, caring for a loved one who has experienced thoughts of suicide, or of being bereaved by suicide.
Perspectives of hope come from shared experience and people can thrive when accessing this meaningful peer support with the opportunity to speak openly about suicide finding a connection through mutual understanding in a time of crisis.
Our Values
Wellbeing : Hope, Safety, and Awareness
Connection : Deep Listening, Kindness, Empathy, and Compassion
Inclusivity : Equity and Diversity
Collaboration : Respect, Integrity, and Trust
Sustainability
Our Values
Wellbeing : Hope, Safety, and Awareness
Connection : Deep Listening, Kindness, Empathy, and Compassion
Inclusivity : Equity and Diversity
Collaboration : Respect, Integrity, and Trust
Sustainability
Our Values
Wellbeing : Hope, Safety, and Awareness
Connection : Deep Listening, Kindness, Empathy, and Compassion
Inclusivity : Equity and Diversity
Collaboration : Respect, Integrity, and Trust
Sustainability
Better Together
Community-led Safe Spaces are a group of people empowered and united to deliver safe spaces in a location which is open to benefit the wider community. Community-led Safe Spaces are co-developed by local communities and Roses in the Ocean who are Australia's national lived experience of suicide organisation with commitment to responding to the needs of the local population and specific demographics impacted by suicide, overcoming geographical challenges, and providing an essential physical space.
Our Constitution
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention Inc. was formed through the coming together of people with a lived experience of suicide in the Blue Mountains local government area and was formally registered as a charity on 20 March 2023.
You can view a PDF of our official Constitution here.
Our Annual Report 2023-2025
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention Inc. has produced it's first annual report describing our journey and the impact we are creating for our community.
You can view a PDF of our Annual Report here.
How You Can Get Involved
Join to volunteer to provide peer support or support our cause
A lived experience of suicide is having experienced suicidal thoughts, survived a suicide attempt, supported a loved one through suicidal crisis, or been bereaved by suicide.
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention
Please note: The coming month has FIVE Fridays. We will be open for THREE of them. 🏡🤝♿🏳️🌈☕☔ #SuicidePreventionService #SuicidePrevention #suicideprevention2026 #suicidepreventionsupport #MentalHealthMatters
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention
Self-harm is an intense coping strategy. This diagram shows why it’s crucial to look beyond the behavior (“what we see”) and address the deeper “unbearable circumstances” and emotional needs underneath. Credit : @ Creative.clinical.psychologists #dbttherapy #dbtskills #DBT #crisisskills #distresstolerance #emotionregulationskills #selfharm
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention is at Thrive Services.
We are a volunteer-run, community-led, drop-in suicide prevention service. If you need to talk to one of our trained lived experience peer support workers, come on in tonight. All are welcome 🏡🤝♿🏳️🌈☕☔ #SuicidePreventionService #SuicidePreventionServices #suicideprevention #suicideprevention2026 #suicidepreventionsupport
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention
We made the Gazette! 🏆🗞👏
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention is overjoyed to be the 2026 recipient of the ZEST Award for Outstanding Community Partnership in Western Sydney. The award is presented by Western Sydney Community Forum and recognises a successful small-scale community partnership that has achieved an extraordinary social impact through community
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention
What a wonderful Winter Magic Festival on Saturday ! So good to see Katoomba Street so busy again with great vibes! (Couldn’t stay very long but) ‘Wow’ well done to all involved, volunteers and all to make this festival happening! The parade is always one of the highlights with very
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention
#suicideprevention2026 #suicideprevention #SuicidePreventionServices #mentalhealthmatters 🏡♿🤝☕🏳️🌈
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention is at Blue Mountains, Katoomba.
#wintermagicfestival #wintermagic2026 #suicidepreventionservices #suicideprevention2026 #suicidepreventionawareness
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention updated their cover photo.
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention
Thank you Katoomba! What an amazing embrace of our volunteers and our ethos welcoming all to our space. You returned that feeling in spades making us feel so welcome for our first time marching in the Winter Magic Grand Parade. 🍃❄🍃❄🍃 #WinterMagic2026 #wintermagicfestival #suicideprevention2026 #suicidepreventionawareness #SuicidePreventionServices #CommunityServices
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention updated their status.
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Our president and most dedicated volunteer, Josh, speaking to his lived experience as he and Flinn accept the Outstanding Community Partnership in Western Sydney Award at the ZEST Awards hosted by Western Sydney Community Forum #zestawards2026 #ZEST2026 #westernsydneycommunityforum #communityservices #suicidepreventionservices
Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention
Congratulations to Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention – Winner of the 2026 ZEST Award for Outstanding Community Partnerships! Blue Mountains Safe Space for Suicide Prevention offers a community-led, after-hours support service for people experiencing suicidal thoughts or crisis. Staffed by trained volunteers with lived experience, it provides a