Visit ruok.org.au for free tips and tools to build the Ask R U OK? Any Day message across your year.
Lifeline provides free and confidential crisis support at any time of day or night.
Call 13 11 14, text 0477 13 11 14 or chat online at: lifeline.org.au.
13YARN is a free 24/7 service offering crisis support for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people. Call 13YARN (13 92 76).
About R U OK?
• R U OK? is a public health promotion charity that aims to inspire and empower people to meaningfully connect with friends, family and colleagues who might be struggling with life.
• A renowned suicide prevention theory is that of Dr Thomas Joiner . Joiner’s theory describes three forces at play in someone at risk of suicide, one of which is a decreased sense of belonging. This lack of belonging and sense of connection is what R U OK? are working to prevent.
• R U OK?Day is an annual National Day of Action; held on the second Thursday of September (12 September 2024), and a reminder that every day is a day to start a conversation that could change a life.
• Throughout the year R U OK? delivers free resources that increase the willingness and confidence of all Australians to recognise the signs someone is struggling, start a genuine conversation and lend appropriate support. R U OK? also tailors these resources to meet the needs of targeted population groups and settings.
• R U OK? draws on the valuable lived experience of Australians in the development of all campaigns.
• R U OK?Day was founded in 2009 by adman Gavin Larkin who tragically lost his father to suicide in 1995. Larkin (who died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011) wanted to spare other families the grief his family endured.
• A spark of an idea has since become a nationwide community movement that encourages everyone to genuinely ask the question and have a meaningful conversation with those in their world who might be struggling.
• Conversation tips and crisis support contacts can be found at ruok.org.au
