Roses in the Ocean

Roses in the Ocean is a leading lived experience of suicide organisation, providing a critical national leadership, advocacy and policy, advisory, and workforce development role throughout Australia. The organisation was founded on and operates through the lens of lived experience of suicide.

Roses in the Ocean exists to save lives and reduce emotional pain.

Roses in the Ocean has been funded through the National Suicide Prevention Leadership and Support Program, Australian Government Department of Health, since January 2018.

Activities include:

• Lived experience capacity-building workshops
• Non-clinical peer led services, including:
  • the Peer CARE Companion Warmline which is a suicide prevention call-back service providing a safe place for people with a lived experience of suicide to connect with others with a similar lived experience for a chat, in a shared space of compassion, understanding and respect
  • Peer CARE Companion in Community - a 'golden thread' of trained and supported community members with a lived experience of suicide supporting others in community with a lived experience of suicide
  • Community-led Safe Spaces - Supporting communities to create and lead the safe spaces that meet their local needs
• Organisational support to integrate lived experience
• Advocacy and system reform
• Resources, including an array of video resources and stories, found in their online Resources Hub
• PEERnet - a Suicide Prevention Peer Workforce digital hub.