Peer Group Chat

Safety

As language can be triggering or elicit a trauma response, out of respect for people with a lived experience, please do not publish content that contains graphic or specific details, or any descriptive account, of:

• your or anyone else's medication or dosages
• eating disorder behaviours (recommending diets, descriptive weight loss/gain strategies or any numbers relating to weight, BMI, clothing size, calories or exercise)
• self-harm methods

• suicide methods
• sexual or physical abuse
• or any other content that others may find distressing or harmful in any way

Respect

Others may hold and share cultural values, beliefs, practices and/or opinions different from yours. To ensure the online groups remain a safe and supportive environment, please respect people’s boundaries, beliefs and ideas. Please do not publish any content that:

• is obscene or offensive
• is malicious, personally attacking or hostile
• directly talking about or alluding to another participant or Peer Support Worker that could be perceived as disrespectful or not inclusive
• may incite hatred, racist, sexist, homophobic, abusive or be seen as discriminatory

• is critical of other’s beliefs and values or is pressuring others to follow your beliefs and values.
• could be seen to be serving yours or somebody else's commercial interests
• could be interpreted as professional advice such as legal, medical, or financial advice
• impacts others from contributing e.g. over-commenting or spam
• reputational risk to SANE

Anonymity

The online groups remain anonymous to enable participants to share their experiences without concern of being identified. In consideration of this, please do not publish:

• your name
• your addresses - postal or email

• your member names on other social media services
• the name of your workplace, uni or school
• any other information by which you could be identified in real life
• you may wish to think about the username you are using and the considerations of using the same username in other SANE support offerings or external services

Confidentiality

You can read our privacy policy here, for more on what information SANE collects and what we do and don’t do with it. We are bound by and adhere to the requirements of the Health Records Act and Privacy Legislation.

This confidentiality is not to be breached to outside individuals or organisations. The only exception to this is in the case of risk of harm issues where SANE has a legal obligation to share relevant documentation with emergency services or child protection services. 

In the instance that any comment in the group discussion breaches the ‘Group Guidelines’, the comment will be removed and the participant will be notified via private message immediately. On the third breach, the participant will be removed from the online peer group for 15 minutes. Upon their return, if a breach occurs, the participant will be removed for the remainder of the group session.