You can save a life – here's how
Lifeline's "accidental counsellor" courses teach you the key skills you need to help prevent suicide, beyond asking R U OK?
Alan Stokes is a columnist and chief editorial writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, where he began in journalism compiling the weather and law lists in 1984. He has worked for major newspapers here and overseas as a Tokyo correspondent, day editor, night editor, features editor and chief sub-editor. He is the author of The Australian on Australia and has been awarded for his writing on human rights.
Lifeline's "accidental counsellor" courses teach you the key skills you need to help prevent suicide, beyond asking R U OK?
... but is too afraid to tell you.
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