Suicide Prevention Advocate - Speaker - Author - Digital Comms Specialist

HI, I’M LAUREN…

My passion is marketing and digital communications in health care, sporting & corporate settings. I am a senior PR specialist with 10+ years of experience in marketing, events and corporate public relations. Throughout my career, I have contributed to impacting business outcomes through effective organisation, prioritisation, and execution of critical projects and worldwide campaigns.

I am a local Perth girl who has been working & volunteering in the mental health and suicide prevention sectors for over ten years. After the death of my brother, Aidon to suicide in 2008, I created The Aidon Project. It was a passion project that has developed and grew into the Lauren Breen Foundation (laurenbreen.com.au) a broad community-based movement, aiming to raise the awareness and harness the voices of people with a lived expertise of suicide.

In the last 12 months, I co-founded a new project called CNQR, alongside fellow co-founder; Margaret Hines and was the Director of Communications at the Kevin & Margaret Hines Foundation based in Atlanta, USA. I was recently the Senior Communications Advisor for White Ribbon Australia and am currently the Digital Communications and Sponsorship Coordinator at Basketball WA and Perth Lynx.

Within the paid mental health sector, I was privileged to be the Team Leader for the Personal Helpers and Mentors & Partners in Recovery programs in my local community. Author of the book, “TRUST – Surviving the Ripple Effect of Suicide”, I have used my lived experience, coupled with my desire and determination to impact change. I am involved with many amazing projects and organisations including, Lifeline WA, Reach Out, Anglicare WA, LIVIN, A Stitch in Time and The Inner Ninja Foundation.

Taking my message worldwide, I have been working alongside fellow suicide prevention and brain health advocate, Kevin Hines in the USA and was involved with his documentary; “Suicide: The Ripple Effect”. I am across all things suicide prevention and mental health and am continuing to spread the message of hope & resilience to all the people I meet. When not working, you will find me on my couch, watching sports and tweeting about it.

RIP Aidon Breen
6th Nov 1989 - 5th Dec 2008