The R U OK? workforce will go to Logan and the Gold Coast from tomorrow, Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 June 2025, bringing their R U OK? Dialog Convoy to native communities.
The go to goals to encourage locals to attach meaningfully and equip them with instruments to assist mates, household, and colleagues fighting life.
Three free group occasions are deliberate:
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Logan: Multicultural Sports activities Centre, 11 June, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
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Coomera: TAFE Queensland, 12 June, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
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Gold Coast: Mudgeeraba Bowls Membership in the course of the Australian Open Bowls, 13 June, 7:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Locals can drop in for a free cuppa, a chat, and sensible recommendation on the way to begin significant R U OK? conversations.
Suicide prevention charity R U OK? works to cut back suicide by fostering a way of connection.
A famend suicide prevention idea by Dr Thomas Joiner identifies decreased belonging as certainly one of three key danger components for suicide.
R U OK? goals to fight this by serving to Australians construct and keep significant relationships.
“We need to assist all Australians perceive the numerous function they will play in looking for his or her mates, household, and colleagues, any day of the 12 months,” the R U OK? workforce shared.
Julie-Annie Whitfield, Office Supervisor, added: “We need to encourage locals to meaningfully join and empower them to lend assist in the event that they spot the indicators somebody could be fighting life.”
The Dialog Convoy brings R U OK?’s message on to Gold Coast and Logan communities.
Occasions will embrace free group BBQs and the distribution of free assets to equip attendees with the boldness to start out R U OK? conversations.
Lachlan Searle, R U OK? Group Director, stated: “A brand new blood donor is required each 5 minutes in Australia, and meaning we want folks speaking and interested by blood and plasma donation and inspiring one another to roll up their sleeves.”
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On the Gold Coast’s Australian Open Bowls, gamers and spectators alike may have the chance to have interaction with the R U OK? workforce throughout one of many area’s largest sporting occasions this week.
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50% of Australians don’t really feel assured they know the way to have an R U OK? dialog.
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Round 3,000 Australians lose their lives to suicide every year.
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11 September 2025 marks this 12 months’s R U OK?Day, a nationwide reminder to ask ‘R U OK?’ not simply as soon as, however on daily basis.
R U OK? will meet with communities, organisations, and faculties for a cuppa and a chat.
They’ll distribute free assets to assist locals know when and the way to have an R U OK? dialog.
The Gold Coast’s occasion will happen on the Mudgeeraba Bowls Membership, with Julie-Annie Whitfield and Australian Open Bowls attendees.
Native imaginative and prescient alternatives embrace:
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Attendees partaking with the R U OK? workforce
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Group members having fun with a free cuppa over significant conversations
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Sources being handed out on-site
The R U OK? Dialog Convoy is a nationwide outreach program visiting regional communities throughout Australia.
R U OK? works year-round to ship free assets, focused campaigns, and coaching packages to extend Australians’ willingness and confidence to assist folks in danger.
Based in 2009 by adman Gavin Larkin, R U OK? has grown right into a nationwide motion encouraging on a regular basis conversations to stop suicide.
Mark your calendar for R U OK?Day 2025 on Thursday, 11 September.
All year long, R U OK? will proceed delivering tailor-made assets and campaigns to fulfill the wants of numerous communities throughout Australia.
You may view the total schedule of Dialog Convoy occasions and obtain free assets at ruok.org.au.
