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As we release new research and resources, we actively engage with communities and professionals to help more countries, organisations, and families benefit from our findings and advice. Our team regularly shares this work through free public events and across sectors such as mental health, marketing, and design.

Past events:

2 Apr 2025 - #chatsafe for Communities

To launch our new guide, in May 2025, “#chatsafe for Communities: using social media for suicide prevention and postvention”, we invited professionals from local governments, community organisations and the mental health sector to share how this new guide can be used to support young people’s safe communication about self-harm and suicide.

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20 Jun 2024 - #chatsafe for influencers

In this webinar from 2024, Dr Louise La Sala spoke with social media influencer Alessia Alfree about how to create safe content about mental health, self-harm and suicide. This event was organised with AiMCO (Australian Influence Marketing Council).

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21 Sep 2021 - Sharing our work in Oslo, Norway

In this public event from 2023, Professor Jo Robinson and Dr Louise La Sala talked about the team’s work in secondary schools across the north and west of Melbourne and their pioneering work in youth participation in suicide research. The visit was hosted by The National Centre for Suicide Prevention in Norway and the Council for Mental Health.

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11 Aug 2021 - #chatsafe for Parents & Carers webinar

This webinar from 2021 launched #chatsafe for Parents & Carers. With a panel made up by #chatsafe researcher, Dr Louise La Sala, a high school teacher, and a young person, the discussion focused on how parents and carers can support their young person to communicate safely on social media, especially when discussing their mental health, suicide, and self-harm.

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31 Mar 2021 - #chatsafe x Melbourne Design Week: ethical design in suicide prevention

Orygen was delighted to take part in the 2021 Melbourne Design Week and showcase how care and empathy have played an integral role in developing #chatsafe content - designed with young people, for young people as part of Orygen’s suicide prevention research.

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7 Feb 2019 - Youth Mental Health in the Digital Age: A/Prof Jo Robinson and Zoe Teh, Orygen

In this presentation from 2019, Professor Jo Robinson shared the #chatsafe research and how it would form the first edition of the #chatsafe guidelines.

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