Julie Rickard
Julie Rickard has a lived experience of suicide bereavement, having lost her partner Steve to suicide. Her story was included in the final report of the Royal Commission into Victoria's Mental Health System. Over the last several years she has actively shared her lived experience in order to inform and improve suicide prevention and postvention in Victoria. After a long corporate career, she recently made a career change and now works as a Lived Experience Practitioner at Neami National where facilitating a Suicide Bereavement Group is part of her role. This group is an important part of her purpose and healing.
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