HALT founders are spreading the word about mental health and suicide within the tradie community

Lynn Rayner
Updated January 30 2019 - 4:30pm, first published May 12 2018 - 3:30pm
WARENESS: Co-founder Jeremy Forbes created HALT to raise awareness about mental health in the community. Picture: JIM ALDERSEY
WARENESS: Co-founder Jeremy Forbes created HALT to raise awareness about mental health in the community. Picture: JIM ALDERSEY

In 2013 HALT (Hope Assistance Local Tradies) founder Jeremy Forbes was at a funeral for one of his mates, a tradie.

At the wake, he was talking to more mates, many of them tradies. There had been five or six tradies suicide in the Mount Alexander shire in the 18 months prior. 

One question kept popping up in the conversations: “Who’s next?” 

It was the catalyst for Mr Forbes to realise something needed to be done to help the tradie community – to stop the culture that was driving more and more men to suicide. 

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Lynn Rayner

Lynn Rayner

Editor - Daily Liberal + western papers

I am the editor of the Daily Liberal, Mailbox Shopper, Western Magazine and associated western publications (Wellington Times and Narromine News which are both online only publications). I have been the editor for three years. I have been a journalist for 15 years and was formally the digital specialist for the Western NSW area assisting with digital coverage and growth across 13 mastheads, including the three dailies. Before that I worked as a journalist in Lithgow and Mudgee covering a number of different rounds. I established the social media accounts in Lithgow and took an interest in the digital aspects of the paper. I started my journalism career at the former Myall Coast Nota based as the journalist-in-charge at Tea Gardens while also working part time in Forster as the council reporter for the Great Lakes Advocate.

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