A community united toward the prevention of suicide within the Fraser Coast
The FCSPN is a Suicide Prevention Network providing connection, education, support and hope to our community.
Fraser Coast Suicide Prevention Network was established in April 2019 and became an Incorporated Association in June of the same year. Now, seven years later, the Association have gained Health Promotion Charity status, which will soon include Deductible Gift Recipient benefits.
We are a Suicide Prevention Network providing connection, education, support, and hope to our community, and our vision is a community united toward the prevention of suicide within the Fraser Coast.
The FCSPN team & our recognition of Lived and Living Experience.
Those who have considered ending their life, and those who have attempted to do
so. We recognize the courage and tenacity to carry on and move through the intense
pain. Those who care for loved ones through a suicidal crisis. We recognize the fear and helplessness experienced, and the endless endeavors to empower those in our care. Those bereaved through suicide. May their immeasurable loss define a legacy and a mission to discover healing, and a new purpose.
The lives lost to suicide, and those who struggle with life today. Everyone’s lived
experience is unique. Everyone’s lived experience is valuable. Everyone’s lived
experience can make a difference. – Roses in the Ocean.
Kim Allgood - Secretary
Kim has been working in the not-for-profit sector for over two decades; the CEO and founder of a registered health promotion charity and served at executive levels on several other community organisations. Kim’s time as a Lifeline telephone counsellor led to further education in Community Development, shaping her future directions.
Also working in the suicide prevention space, Kim brings many years of lived experience to the FCSPN committee, along with her experience steering various not-for-profit charities.
Kim believes that collaboration across mental health services, charities, and non-health sectors provides the strongest foundation for effective suicide prevention.
Olwen Schubert - Assistant Secretary
Olwen Schubert has been involved with suicide bereavement and suicide prevention since her son Christian Paul Schubert’s suicide in 1991. Olwen is a former President of TCF (The Compassionate Friends Qld Inc.) and served as a support facilitator for many years. She was Secretary of SOSBSA (Survivors of Suicide Bereavement Association) from its outset and became its fortnightly bereavement facilitator and 24/7 telephone counsellor. Olwen has written several booklets to help people bereaved by suicide. In 2014, she formed her own bereaved group IN Hervey Bay, SOBS (Support of the Bereaved by Suicide), as a combined group including families whose child/children whose death was by any means and/or age. Olwen first became a member of Fraser Coast Suicide Prevention Network in 2019 and served as its Secretary until 2025.
Shelley Quick - Treasurer
Shelley is our little pocket dynamo. A qualified Registered Nurse, Certified Midwife and Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing now retired and I have created a tropical habitat garden and care for small disabled and challenged native wildlife. Also qualified with Accounting and Bookkeeping Software for business management.keeps my mind active. Volunteer with Hervey Bay City Rotary Club and Turtles in Trouble Rescue Hervey Bay.
Pauline Derich & Brooke Walkem - Our Support Crew
Where would we be without our Non-Executive Committee Members backing us up, and picking up the slack when we need them most.
Pauline has been with FCSPN for many years and brings an equal amount of Lived and Living experience to the team.
While Brooke also joins FCSPN with her own Lived and Living Experience, she is the co-Founder of You Good? Clothing, a community-led mental health and grassroots social enterprise.
Our Chair and Our Mentor
Nick Walkem - Chair
Nick is a suicide attempt survivor and has a lived and living experience of mental ill health and neurodivergence. Nick uses this experience to educate and inform organisations, groups and individuals around suicide prevention and awareness through community engagement and skills training. Nick's struggle with mental ill health has been long and intermittent over the last 20 years. In January 2025, during crisis recovery, Nick found solace in hearing the stories of others, and in listening to what they had to say about their experiences and challenges with life and in navigating the complex health systems meant to aid recovery. It was during this time that Nick decided to explore the possibility of using lived experience and enhanced understanding of living with mental health challenges to help others survive, recover and navigate life with mental ill health and joined the Fraser Coast Suicide Prevention Network in 2025. Nick's primary pursuit in life is happiness. Right now, happiness looks like meeting, connecting with and helping other people who either have loved ones, or who are themselves struggling with mental ill health. He does this through sharing his story and showing that recovery is a journey, that it is okay to not be okay, and that with the right help, guidance and information, we can all live happier, better supported lives.
Steve Moroney - Wesley Mission
While he doesn't get a vote in any Fraser Coast Suicide Prevention Network decisions, it is Steve and Wesley who have helped our core group, Olwen, Shelley, Pauline, and Nola, keep the Association alive.
We appreciate everything Steve has taught us over the years, and Wesley does, not only for us, but for all their Suicide Prevention Networks.
Your membership will help us to foster collaboration among local suicide prevention organisations, associations, groups, individuals, and businesses in response to ongoing community suicide prevention and awareness challenges.
We are committed to building a community united towards the prevention of suicide within the Fraser Coast. We welcome diverse perspectives, voices, and lived experience. We hold ourselves accountable by following through on commitments, making collective decisions, and remaining flexible to adapt to the changing needs of the Fraser Coast community.
Sometimes, all we need is, someone to listen..
Events
Monthly General Meeting
Our next meeting will be held at the Hervey Bay RSL.
Saturday, November 28th at 11:00 am.
Connecting with you.
We will let you know when we will be out in the community next. We look forward to catching up.
Frequently asked questions.
FCSPN meet at 11:00 am on the last Saturday of of each month, in the boardroom, second floor, at Hervey Bay RSL.
Members of FCSPN are always welcome.
To add something to an agenda, please email our Secretary at frasercoastspn@outlook.com.au