Postvention Support after a Death from Suicide

Suicide loss resources

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Healing Conversations
  Connects those who have lost someone to suicide for a one-time visit (phone, virtual or in-person) with trained volunteers who are also survivors of suicide loss.
• Dougy Center 
  Support for grieving children, teens, young adults, and their families. There are also Spanish resources.
• The Helpline Center
  Provides individual phone or caring card support to loss survivors (email griefsupport@helplinecenter.org to request).
• National Alliance for Children’s Grief
  Provides resources for supporting children who are grieving a death by suicide. There are also Spanish resources.
• Oregon Health Authority Help Texts
  OHA is offering year-long, evidence-based grief and mental health support via text message for teens and adults ages 13+.
• Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE)
  Provides a suicide loss grief packet and practical resources. 

Suicide loss support groups

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Support Group Database
  Virtual and in-person support groups.
• Coalition of Clinician Survivors
  Provides virtual groups to mental health and mental health adjacent professionals who have experienced suicide losses in personal and/or professional contexts.
• Compassionate Friends
  Virtual support community for parents, grandparents and siblings for suicide loss of a child.
• Dougy Center  
  Offers in person and virtual children's support groups designed around age, type of death, and who died (parent, sibling, friend) in English and Spanish. Parent/adult caregiver groups run at the same time as the children's support groups.
• Friends for Survival Suicide Loss Support Groups 
  Provides virtual grieving mom’s group, grieving men’s group, spouse and partner group and other support groups.
• Helpline Support Groups for Suicide Loss Survivors 
  Virtual support groups.
• National Widowers’ Organization  
  Supports men who have lost a spouse, life partner, child, parent, or sibling by providing resources, support groups and a Widower-to-Widower Peer Support Program which offers personal connection with trained volunteers who are also widowers.
• SafePlace Support Groups for Suicide Loss Survivors
  Virtual support groups.
• Virtual Meetings for Parents and Guardians Who Have Lost a Child to Suicide
  Support groups facilitated by trained volunteers who have themselves experienced a similar loss.
• Virtual Suicide Grief Support Group for the LGBTQAI+ Community
  A peer-led support group, facilitated by fellow LGBTQ2SIA+ suicide loss survivor. 

Books

• The After Journey – A Survivor’s Guide Ater the Death of a Loved One by Suicide
  Written by parents who lost their 14-year-old daughter to suicide (free download)
• After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief
  Guides family members through events and reactions that often occur during the first years following suicide and beyond.
• Ask Me: 30 Things I Want You to Know. Living Beyond Suicide – Helping Yourself or Helping a Friend
  Written by parents who lost their adult son to suicide.

Resources for those supporting others 

• Trauma Intervention Program Citizen Resource Guide (PDF from Trauma Intervention Program NW)
• After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools
• A Manager’s Guide to Suicide Postvention in the Workplace