A loss by suicide is like no other, and grieving can be especially difficult, especially after traumatic loss. Whether you are looking for help with your own grief, looking for ways to help others, or developing a plan to provide postvention response grief support for a particular setting or community, there are resources available.
Though postvention grief support occurs following a loss, it is preventive for those most impacted by the loss. Receiving support in a timely manner reduces suicide risk of survivors themselves, reduces stigma, and promotes healthy grieving, healing and hope. These supports may include a conversation with a trained peer who also experienced a suicide loss (e.g. Healing Conversations), Support Groups, Faith resources, as well as one on one professional counseling. Please don’t hesitate to Contact Us with any questions.
- A Guide to Suicide Postvention in the Workplace
- After a Suicide: Recommendations for religious services and other public memorial observances
- After a Suicide: Toolkit for Schools
- AFSP’s Survivor Outreach Program
- CDC Guidance for Communities Assessing, Investigating and Responding to Suicide Clusters, United States, 2024
- CDC Recommendations for a Community Plan for the Prevention and Containment of Suicide Clusters
- Center for HOPE
- Coping after suicide loss: Tips for grieving adults, children, and schools dealing with a death by suicide
- Cove Center for Grieving Children
- Healing Hearts Center for Grieving Children & Families
- Impact of Suicide on Professional Caregivers: A Guide for Managers and Supervisors
- Manager’s Guide to Suicide Postvention in the Workplace: 10 Action Steps for Dealing with the Aftermath of Suicide
- Postvention: A guide for response to suicide on college campuses
- Reporting on Suicide
- Responding to Grief, Trauma, and Distress After a Suicide: U.S. National Guidelines
- Safe and Effective Messaging Guidelines
- Screening Tool & Protocol- Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS)
- Suicide Contagion and the Reporting of Suicide: Recommendations from a National Workshop
- Suicide Deaths Are Often ‘Contagious.’ This May Help Explain Why
- Uniting for Suicide Postvention (Healing following a suicide, with sections for providers, workplace and communities)