Postvention Alliance
Postvention Alliance
Advocates for Suicide Survivor Driven Support, Research, and Education
Change in Focus
Change in Focus
EricaFebruary 1, 2025suicide prevention, suicide grief, suicide survivors, suicide postvention, POSTVENTION, POSTVENTION ALLIANCE, #postvention
A Fond Farewell
A Fond Farewell
EricaAugust 9, 2024Janice Curtis, Peer Support, Power of Positive Thinking
The winds of change are blowing in survivors’ favor.
The winds of change are blowing in survivors’ favor.
Policy, Peer support, mental health, Students, TeachersEricaMay 1, 2024postvention, POSTVENTION ALLIANCE, suicide prevention, harm reduction, colorado, new york, biden, students, teachers, positive women's network, action is safer
Postvention activists refine issues in 2024
Postvention activists refine issues in 2024
Peer support, Black wellness, mental health, Men's healthEricaJanuary 31, 2024carl munson, levengood, apodaca, david nield, tim reierson, kevin dedner, resmaa menakem, justice center, coucil of state governments, antonia hylton, postvention, suicide survivors, suicide postvention
Survivors need our own month (or three).
Survivors need our own month (or three).
Peer support, Policy, Call to actionEricaOctober 1, 2023postvention, suicide prevention, marilyn koenig, friends for survival, friendship bench
Peer-Centered Wellness & Recovery
Peer-Centered Wellness & Recovery
EricaJune 17, 2023
Spotlight on Decentralized Comprehensive Postvention - Community Action, Funding, Research, and After Care
Spotlight on Decentralized Comprehensive Postvention - Community Action, Funding, Research, and After Care
EricaApril 16, 2023#postvention
New Year, More Friends, Big Goals
New Year, More Friends, Big Goals
EricaJanuary 20, 2023postvention, suicide prevention, peer support, addiction, recovery, incarceration, legislation, iMatter, disconnected
Autumn Reflections
Autumn Reflections
EricaSeptember 21, 2022
Design, Learn, Paint, Teach, Write, Camera, Action!
Design, Learn, Paint, Teach, Write, Camera, Action!
EricaJune 3, 2022
Collaborate Collaborate Collaborate!
Collaborate Collaborate Collaborate!
EricaMarch 5, 2020suicide, SUICIDE PREVENTION, suicide prevention, suicide survivors, suicide postvention, self-care, POSTVENTION ALLIANCE, POSTVENTION, postvention, support
The FCC unanimously approved 988 as the new suicide prevention number.
The FCC unanimously approved 988 as the new suicide prevention number.
EricaJanuary 13, 2020POSTVENTION, 988, SUICIDE PREVENTION, POSTVENTION ALLIANCE, NAMI, nami, postvention, suicide prevention, suicide survivors, overdose, harm reduction
Colorado’s Behavioral Health Blueprint 2020
Colorado’s Behavioral Health Blueprint 2020
EricaNovember 29, 2019suicide, POSTVENTION ALLIANCE, POSTVENTION, postvention, suicide survivors, SUICIDE PREVENTION, suicide prevention, suicide postvention
Holiday Season Encouragement
Holiday Season Encouragement
EricaNovember 15, 2019suicide, suicide prevention, postvention, suicide survivors, grief, support, holiday grief
Survivor of Suicide Loss Day 2019
Survivor of Suicide Loss Day 2019
EricaOctober 10, 2019postvention, suicide prevention, grief, bereavement, self-care, wellbeing, deep breathing, suicide loss, suicide bereavement, suicide grief, suicide trauma
 

Postvention Alliance is USA based 501(c)4 NGO. This website exists as a public service to share knowledge of postvention practices and to encourage postvention efforts. It should not be understood as either recommendation or endorsement. Postvention Alliance offers no direct support through this website. If you or someone you know needs support, please contact the survivor support services in your area. Visitors may send an email to the address listed below.

“Postvention is to come after—that is, to do those things after the dire event has occurred that either (a) serve to mollify the after-effects of the event in the chief protagonist, specifically, to work with a person after [the person] has attempted suicide; or (b) deal with the inimical sequels in other persons affected by the event, for example, the family members of a [severely distressed] person or, in the case of a [death by] suicide, with the obvious mental health needs of the survivor-victims. I prefer ‘postvention’.” (Shneidman 1971, 452). Schneidman, Edwin S. “The Management of the Presuicidal, Suicidal, and Postsuicidal Patient .” Annals of Internal Medicine 75, no. 3 (1971): 441–58

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