Safe Space Blacktown is open 3pm to 9pm from Wednesday to Saturday at 24 Panorama Parade, Blacktown.
Safe Space is a welcoming, quiet, and comfortable place in the community. It provides 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 are Peer Support Workers, (people with a lived experience of suicide and/or mental health issues) and non-clinical Mental Health Support Workers. The space and support available have been designed in partnership with people who have been through tough times themselves and understand what does and doesn’t work.
Guests tell us that having another option for keeping safe is really important; “It is so great to have a place to come that is an alternative to ED while you can just chill and get help. It is better than ED, the wait at ED with no one to talk to is hard. In Safe Space there was no wait, [I was] given time to sit and sort my brain out with someone to talk to if needed.”
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