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Welcome to Australia’s 5th National LGBTIQA+ Conference - Better Together® 2023.

This is an in-person event at the Adelaide Convention Centre on Friday 17 to Saturday 18 February 2023. Please register here to attend this event.

Better Together® 2023 is brought to you by The Equality Project® and proudly supported by The Office for Ageing Well and Seniors Card SA, Adelaide Convention Bureau, Queerspace, Adelaide Convention Centre, Department of Human Services SA, The Long Walk, ABBA the Museum, Tint Design, PwC, KL Gates, Nicholes Family Law, EY. This app is proudly sponsored by Unusual Risks Insured.

The Equality Project acknowledges the Kaurna people as the traditional custodians of the lands on which we will gather for this event. We wish to pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging and recognise the continuing relationship First Nations people have to these lands. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.
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Friday, February 17 • 3:30pm - 3:50pm
Supporting LGBTQ peers with their mental health: benefits and challenges

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LGBTQ people often provide crucial support to peers experiencing mental health challenges -- but more needs to be done to ensure they're also being supported. Findings from the Lean on Me report explore the benefits and challenges of being there for a fellow community member.
Speakers
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Shane Worrell

Researcher, ARCSHS, La Trobe University
Dr Shane Worrell is a qualitative researcher at La Trobe University's Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) in Melbourne. He has published in the areas of LGBTIQ+ informal mental health support, LGBTIQ+ family violence, refugee settlement and migration. Shane... Read More →

Friday February 17, 2023 3:30pm - 3:50pm ACDT
Riverbank Room 2
  BetterThink

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