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This 48-page guide contains age-specific recommendations to help children and youth and includes helpful resources.
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Children, Teens and Suicide Loss
As fellow survivors of suicide loss, we urge you to remember these few but important things:
You are not alone.
There are resources and people to support you.
There is no universal time frame for healing, but you will move forward from the place where you are now.
We wish you strength and courage as you travel through your grieving, toward a place of healing.
Be well,
The AFSP Loss and Healing Council
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the Resource and Healing Guide
(For Parents, Caregivers, Teachers, School Counselors and Staff,
Youth Workers, and anyone interested in Teen Mental Health)
Postvention Resources
Resource Links:
STAR-Center Postvention Standards Manual, 5th Edition
Adapted Postvention Considerations for Schools
SPRC’s After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools, 2nd Edition
Recommendations for Reporting on Suicide
NCTSN’s Pause, Reset, Nourish (PRN)
Dougy Center
Coalition to Support Grieving Students
NCTSN’s Talking to Your Child about a Suicide Death
Suicide Loss: What Teens Need to Know
Additional Grief Supports
AFSP | How to Talk to a Suicide Loss Survivor | A #RealConvo Guide
HealthyPlace | When Grief becomes a Mental Health issue
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Virtual Support!!
L.O.S.S. Suicide Loss Survivor Support Group
. . . is the first Tuesday evening of each month, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm beginning November 3rd.
Please email [email protected] or leave a message at 724-834-6351 x 118 for more information.
Groups are held via Zoom online.
(For more info or to join a group please contact the group leaders.)
SUPPORT FOR YOUR RECOVERY!
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Lifeline of Listening Friends | mylifelinepittsburgh.org
A Listing of Suicide Loss Support Groups surrounding Pittsburgh,
providing support for your journey of grief along the healing pathway
STAR-Center of UPMC Western Psychiatric | Survivors of Suicide (SOS) Group
SOS is a support group for bereaved family members and close friends of suicide victims. This group provides a safe place for survivors to deal with the painful questions and feelings that follow suicide.
The meetings are held on Wednesday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30 in a classroom at Bellefield Towers, located in Oakland. Parking is free. Please call for group start dates.
LOCATION:
STAR-Center of UPMC Western Psychiatric
100 North Bellefield Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2593
412.864.3346
Suicide Prevention Resource Center | After a Suicide
Recommendations for Religious Services & Other Public Memorial Observances