Our Mission
To provide a safe digital space to empower young people to share their story, inspire hope in others, build resilience and support mental health and wellbeing through connection and lived experience
Connect
- Help young people feel seen, heard, and less alone.
- Encourage reaching out, for support, connection, and healing.
- Advocate for a community that checks in and shows up.
- Promote emotional wellbeing through presence, not isolation.
Inspire
- Share your story to give hope when life feels heavy.
- Show how you care for your wellbeing, you might help someone do the same.
- Uplift others facing stress, grief, or tough times with honesty and heart.
- Lead with courage, compassion, and resilience, your voice matters.
Empower
- Build confidence and courage to break the stigma around mental health.
- Encourage resilience through life’s challenges.
- Help normalise real talk about mental health, suicide, and what it means to keep going.
- Share lessons from mistakes, because failure is part of growth.
Our Values
A community where shared experiences inspire healing and growth
- Kindness
- Leading with compassion, lifting others up, and choosing care over judgment.
- Empathy
- Sharing from the heart, feeling with others, and creating space for every story.
- Safety
- Your privacy and security are our top priorities.
- Authenticity
- We encourage you to be true to yourself because your story matters as it is.
Our Phased Approach
YSMS project is being led by Sabrina’s Reach4Life Inc. in a phased approach
- Phase 1Co-design a storytelling platform with young people for young people
- Phase 2Incorporate resources and tools
- Phase 3Support for parents & schools
Who runs YSMS
Your Story, My Story is a project of Sabrina’s Reach4Life Inc. Lidia and Michael Di Lembo founded the charity in 2018, in memory of their daughter Sabrina.
Sabrina’s Reach4Life became an incorporated association in 2019 and a registered charity in 2020. Today it is also a Public Benevolent Institution and a Deductible Gift Recipient, so gifts of $2 or more are tax deductible. Learn what that means for donors
Our Management Committee
Sabrina’s Reach4Life is run by a Management Committee rather than a board. Its members are volunteers who meet every month to set direction, look after the charity’s money and manage risk. Smaller sub-committees focus on support and referrals, advocacy and capacity building, governance and risk, and specific projects.
Lidia Di Lembo
ChairpersonSabrina’s mum and a founding director of Sabrina’s Reach4Life. Lidia started Darwin’s first support group for people bereaved by suicide in 2019 and co-chairs Postvention Australia.
Bogusia Goring
SecretarySpent 20 years in the Victorian Education Department, then worked in homelessness, alcohol and other drug, and housing services in Darwin. Her own lived experience helps her understand how hard it can be for people bereaved by suicide in the NT to find support.
Joe De Luca
TreasurerA Fellow Certified Practising Accountant (FCPA) with more than 35 years in senior Northern Territory and Commonwealth government roles. Joe is Lidia’s brother and has been part of the charity from the start.
Coral Osborn
Committee memberHolds a Bachelor of Psychology and a Graduate Diploma of Counselling (Loss and Grief), and works as a crisis support counsellor with Lifeline.
Maria Vescan
Committee memberA clinical psychologist in private practice and a member of the Australian Psychological Society.
Marina Vannucci
Committee memberAn occupational therapist who works with a trauma-informed approach, now at the Head to Health centre in Darwin. Marina joined the committee in 2021.