Twitch Plays Support
Twitch Australia and New Zealand and Twitch creators are sharing tips and tools to help you support your friends and family online and IRL
The Twitch community has shown time and time again their powerful ability to mobilize around a common goal. Throughout September Twitch creators are showing how we can play the support role online and IRL.
We all face life’s ups and downs – relationship issues, financial difficulty, stress at work and home, grief and loss – and these can be really challenging. Additionally, many Twitch Creators and the wider Twitch Community are impacted by mental illness – and even suicide – at some stage in their lives, be it personally or through a loved one. The support role is crucial in a lot of video games, but we can also play our part in real life. When the people we know online and IRL face these issues, we can make a difference if we reach out, ask R U OK?, listen with an open mind, and help connect them to support.
Twitch Australia and New Zealand is proud to be supporting suicide prevention charity R U OK? ahead of our annual day of action, R U OK?Day (9 September 2021). Twitch creators will be streaming in support of R U OK? and discussing simple steps we can all take to support each other through life’s ups and downs, big and small. Twitch creators will educate and empower the Twitch community with tips and tools you can use to support your friends and family, as well as collaborating on a fundraiser to back the development of important R U OK? resources and health promotion activities.
If you or a loved on need immediate support, Lifeline is available 24/7 on 13 11 14. Other Australian and New Zealand supports can be found here.
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