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…

Information for parents and other care givers.The following information has been written with the help of children and parents bereaved by suicide. The information is meant to be a guide to assist you in supporting your children. If you have any questions about this information or would like some extra support please contact one of…

Information for parents and other care givers The following information has been written with the help of children and parentsbereaved by suicide. The information is meant to be a guide to assist you in supportingyour children. If you have any questions about this information or would like some extrasupport please contact one of the services…

This information is compiled for survivors – the family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and other impacted by self-inflicted death of someone they care about.

Evidence strongly suggests that self-help support groups are a powerful and constructive means for people to help themselves and each other. It has been shown that the groups can make a significant contribution to positive outcomes for those who participate. There appears to be an increasing tendency for individuals to get together and form such…

Evidence (Beautrais, 2004; Campbell, 1997; Campbell, Cataldie, McIntosh & Millet, 2004; Davis &Hinger, 2005; Hatton & Valente, 1981; Hopmeyer & Werk, 1993; Murphy, Johnson & Lohan, 2003Parrish & Tunkle, 2005; Pietila, 2002) from research has shown that people bereaved by suicidehave different emotional experiences of grief and a potentially higher risk of poor grief outcomesthan…

Developed by men and women and their family members who have lived through a range of mental health issues.

For many people with a mental illness and their families, stigma can create as much pain and stress as the illness itself.

Early responders play a vital role in supporting people who have lost someone they care about, someone they know who has died by suicide. Suicide loss is profoundly different than other loss and grief in that it is a intentional act that can have crippling effects for the family, friends and other survivors.

A guide for creating a sustainable grief support organization for families and friends after a suicide death.

‘NOW, HERE, YOU SEE, IT TAKES ALL THE RUNNING YOU CAN DO TO KEEP IN THE same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as= fast as that,’ said Red Queen to the exhausted Alice (Alice through the Looking Glass, Chapter 2). This is the feeling experienced by…

The importance of providing support to survivors of suicide – those who have lost someone to suicide – is atthe very core of the Suicide Prevention Action Network (SPAN USA). The national, nonprofit organization wasfounded in 1996 by Gerald and Elsie Weyrauch of Marietta, Georgia, survivors of the suicide of their 34-year-old physician daughter, Terri.…

A good practice guide for organisations that respond to suicide