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Aftercare program fills void for isolated residents recovering from suicidality

After years of battling suicide in her youth, peer support worker Michelle Levy is helping others through some of their darkest days in a pilot program pairing people recently discharged from hospital with someone with a lived experience. 

The Wesley LifeForce Aftercare program was implemented more than a year ago to reduce suicidal distress and high rates of suicide deaths in Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales Mid North Coast.

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