The start of SmackTalk
Around three months after his son Mac took his own life, Wayne Holdsworth decided he had a responsibility to ensure other families didn’t go through the pain his family was suffering. It led to the creation of a registered charity, SmackTalk.
Weekly counselling support gave Wayne the strength to get through the funeral and then Christmas. Then he decided he wanted to leave Mac a legacy because at 17, he hadn’t really left one.
Wayne wanted to use his son’s death as a catalyst to do more around suicide prevention and also assist people with seeing the signs around the signs that kids and people show – before it’s too late.
Wayne is convinced that had he known what he knows now, Mac would be here with him now.