Jeremy Forbes: How to start a conversation about suicide
جيريمي فوربيس: كيف نبدأ الحوار عن الانتحار
Through his charity HALT, Jeremy Forbes aims to break through the stigma attached to mental health, raise awareness through education and empower men to open up conversations around mental health and suicide prevention. Full bio
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country town in central Victoria.
مدينة صغيرة وسط ولاية فيكتوريا.
for his workmanship with steel.
المشهور بصنعه للحديد.
some steel edging for the garden.
which is a wonderful gift,
كان هديّة جميلة،
down the end of Pete's street
was a tradie, or a tradesman.
in the Australian vernacular.
في اللهجة الأسترالية.
and the community members,
of another underlying tragic level.
in that community hall
other people were going through.
was contained in two words
where I was standing in a community hall
this Castlemaine community
مجتمع كاستيل ماين
I'd played footy there,
for what they'd given me.
that hall as well,
drugs, finance, gambling,
كحول ومخدرات ومالية وقمار
that we have in the tradie community,
نعاني منه في مجتمع الحرفيين،
I lacked the experience.
but I wanted to do something.
to them or what to tell them.
from Catherine Pilgrim, my cofounder,
من كاثرين بلغرام الشريك المؤسس،
for the tradie community.
for the tradie community.
of being a tradie.
we can get the tradies together
and talk about mental health
عن الصحة النفسية
I thought it was very clever.
أعتقدتُ أنها فكرة ذكية.
of a hardware store.
من متجر الخردوات.
and I'm a tradie myself,
وأنا حرفي بنفسي،
the tradies with egg and bacon rolls,
had no money to begin,
It starts in community.
we went around to the baker,
and there was some chocolate,
this awareness-raising event.
Because we haven't got any money."
لأنتا لم نظفر بمالٍ بعد."
we initiated the conversation with
depression or thoughts of suicide
أو القلق أو تراوده أفكار انتحارية
we've got some food.
and a lot of men in general,
where to go and get help.
at the HALT events,
about my mental health
إلى طبيب الصحة العقلية
potentially saved my life.
لو تطلب الأمر.
say to me in the first year,
في أول سنة للحدث،
still have those bags in their Ute
يحتفظون بحقائبهم في شاحنتهم
about a whole of community approach,
عن نهجنا المجتمعي
in Castlemaine at Tonks Brothers,
في توكس بروذرز
gone through mental health.
it's not only tradies
لأحداثٍ لغير الحرفيين
or anxiety or depression or suicide.
أو اكتئاب أو قلق أو انتحار.
in the farming industry,
would not go home to their partners
we talked about mental health,
تحدثنا اليوم عن الصحة العقلية،
this, this and this now."
to these young, vulnerable men and women.
الشبان والضعاف من الرجال والنساء
is really high for older men.
depot workers and tradies.
with very little funding,
بالقليل من التمويل،
HALT event at a hardware store,
في متجر الخرداوات أو الأدوات،
about his suicide attempt.
they've worked through it,
قاموا بتجاوز الأمر،
they could share their vulnerabilities.
أنه بإمكانهم مشاركة ضعفهم.
talk about their suicide attempt,
عن محاولة انتحارهم،
for them to talk,
to start talking.
to me and tell me their story,
وأخبروني قصتهم،
to talk with other men."
that I've had depression, but I have,
من الاكتئاب، لكن كنتُ كذلك،
wants to come and speak to me,
and cathartic to do that.
from local and national support services.
من خدمات الدعامة الوطنية والأهلية.
or someone at one of these events,
حرفي بها في أحد أحداثنا،
of suicide prevention.
which most of our brekkies are,
It's a whole-of-community approach.
لكل المجتمع.
sporting clubs, community clubs.
النوادي المحلية
just to give you an idea.
ستساعدك على رؤية الصورة كاملة
in opening up the conversations.
عند الحديث.
to open up conversations.
ببدأ هكذا أحاديث
conversations, I tell the guys,
to open up and have a conversation,
it's going for a walk,
to have the conversation.
to have that conversation
out there is a good listener.
to listen and not judge.
to talk to you about mental illness
ليحادثك عن الصحة العقلية
and thoughts of suicide,
that we're going to hold that in tight
We need to listen.
associated with mental health.
to have mental health days.
it's mental health days.
بل عصر الصحة العقلية كذلك.
We can add to that change.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jeremy Forbes - Life preserverThrough his charity HALT, Jeremy Forbes aims to break through the stigma attached to mental health, raise awareness through education and empower men to open up conversations around mental health and suicide prevention.
Why you should listen
Jeremy Forbes is the co-founder of HALT (Hope Assistance Local Tradies), which aims to build the bridge between the tradespeople or "tradie" community and both local and national support services. HALT facilitates this through "Save Your Bacon" meetings in hardware stores, where tradies feel socially included and comfortable.
Forbes and his co-founder Catherine Pilgrim founded HALT in 2013 after the suicide of a local tradesman in the Castlemaine, Australia area. HALT has now held over 200 events across Australia, reaching over 10,000 tradies, apprentices and community members. HALT has now expanded and is reaching out to sporting clubs, farming communities, building and construction apprentices, miners, corporate organizations and private businesses with a powerful message of suicide prevention.
Forbes travels across Australia and the world to tell his story and encourage and empower men to open up and have the tough conversations, as well as giving them the awareness of where to go to access help or help a mate if they need help. He was awarded a Westpac Social Change Fellowship through the Westpac Bicentennial foundation in 2016 and traveled to London and Oxford to talk about HALT and discover what the Uk were doing in the suicide prevention field. HALT was awarded a state award by Worksafe Victoria for its innovative approach to mental health and suicide prevention.
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