Introducing The Ponds Shopping Centre Community Kickstart Grant Winner for 2023!
Congratulations to Stride Safe Space for being selected as the recipient for the 2023 ISPT & The Ponds Shopping Centre Community Kickstart Grant.
Stride Safe Space is a welcoming, quiet, and comfortable place in the community. They provide the space for people experiencing suicidal thoughts and feelings or emotional distress to access support when they need it, in a calm and caring environment. The staff at Safe Space are Peer Support Workers, (people with a lived experience of mental health issues), and non-clinical Mental Health Support Workers.
They will receive a $10,000 grant to continue their important work within the Blacktown community – particularly in supporting their suicide prevention service and playing a key role in reducing it in the community. Through increased community engagement events, training workshops, and creating new programs within Safe Space, these services will play a key role in increasing education, reducing stigma, and spreading awareness on such a crucial and devastating topic.
To find out more about Stride Safe Space and their incredible work, click here.
Also view their Stride Safe Space Flyer and Stride Safe Space Booklet.