Groups of Mutual Support – Leaders Guide

SUPPORT GROUPS FOR SURVIVORS AFTER SUICIDE. Every community experiences deaths by suicide. When an intentionally self-inflicted death occurs families and friends suffer a magnitude of isolated, complicated grief. Because the grief that follows suicide is different from grief resulting from other causes of death there is seldom the understanding, reinforcement, guidance and role modeling for growth toward healthy reconciliation and adjustment through these compounded grief dynamics, so we have formed…

HEARTBEAT, a group of mutual support for those who have suffered loss through suicide