From Surviving to Thriving Utilising the CORES Training: Lived Experience from a Rural LGBTIQA+ Person
| Thursday, November 6, 2025 |
| 9:55 AM - 10:25 AM |
Overview
Sharon Corvinus-Jones, Chief Executive Officer, Kentish Regional Clinic Inc.
Presenter
Sharon Corvinus-Jones
Chief Executive Officer
Kentish Regional Clinic Inc.
From Surviving to Thriving Utilising tfhe CORES Training: Lived Experience from a Rural LGBTIQA+ Person
Presentation Overview
In this presentation Sharon will share her lived expertise, to take you through her journey from surviving to thriving utilising aspects of the Community Owned Response to Eliminating Suicide (CORES) suicide prevention training.
Sharon will share her lived experience of growing up ‘non-binary’ in rural Australia, the journey of coming to terms with both her gender identity and sexuality, how she came to attend the CORES suicide prevention training, and the way that this helped her to manage her own mental health and suicidality to transform her life through the River of Risk strategy. This journey has led Sharon to become the CEO of Kentish Regional Clinic, the governing body of CORES Australia, which allows her to continue her passion for self-care and mental wellbeing, suicide prevention, community development and equity for all, through education. CORES Australia is a grass roots organisation empowering communities to take care of themselves and each other. Sharon believes that we need to come back to where it takes a community to raise a child and a community to support an adult.
Sharon will share her lived experience of growing up ‘non-binary’ in rural Australia, the journey of coming to terms with both her gender identity and sexuality, how she came to attend the CORES suicide prevention training, and the way that this helped her to manage her own mental health and suicidality to transform her life through the River of Risk strategy. This journey has led Sharon to become the CEO of Kentish Regional Clinic, the governing body of CORES Australia, which allows her to continue her passion for self-care and mental wellbeing, suicide prevention, community development and equity for all, through education. CORES Australia is a grass roots organisation empowering communities to take care of themselves and each other. Sharon believes that we need to come back to where it takes a community to raise a child and a community to support an adult.
Biography
Sharon Corvinus-Jones has lived and worked in rural Australia for all of her life and identifies as non-binary. Sharon is a ‘Change Agent’ with a passion for suicide prevention and community development through educating and supporting rural and regional communities. Sharon is now the Chief Executive Officer for Kentish Regional Clinic.
Sharon has won three awards for her work in LGBTIQA+ inclusion. The ‘Red Herring Surf Social Inclusion Award’ in 2010 and both the ‘LGBTI Rainbow Award’ and the ‘Human Rights LGBTI Award’ in 2013, for her long-term commitment to developing social and support networks and suicide prevention.
