Christopher Forde The National Suicide Prevention Conference 2024

Christopher Forde

Chris Forde Member of the Australian Counselling Association Chris is a Mental Health Educator at Incolink and provides prevention education material to the commercial construction industry in Victoria and facilitates Incolink's suicide prevention program, Bluehats. He has a lived experience of mental health struggles and is a qualified and accredited psychotherapist with 25 years experience specialising in addiction recovery, men's mental health and suicide prevention. As a facilitator of the Bluehats program, Chris provides support to Bluehat volunteers, otherwise known as gatekeepers for Incolink's suicide prevention program Bluehats and has a passion for education and group facilitation. Chris has previously presented as a keynote speaker at the Victorian Alcohol And Drug Conference in Melbourne 2014 and the Association of Drug and Alcohol Agencies Northern Territory in Alice Springs 2015.

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