Postvention Alliance
Postvention Alliance
Advocates for Suicide Survivor Driven Support, Research, and Education

Suicide Loss Survivors


groups and resources

Fruends for Survival warmline 800-646-7322

Bereaved Parents of the USA
Dougy Center - Children
Healing the Hurt Spirit - Catherine Greenleaf
Heartbeat
Personal Grief Coach - resource list
Stages of Grief

Media produced BY LOSS SURVIVORS

Andy’s Mom - podcast
Coping with the loss of a loved one by suicide: 6 steps survivors can take
Tracy Oeser - Journey Through Grief podcast
Sally Spencer-Thomas - Hope Illuminated podcast
Seeking Hope: Stories of the Suicide Bereaved


USA ACTIVE DUTY & DEPENDENTS / VETERANS & FAMILIES

TAPS - Military Suicide Postvention
US Department of Military Affairs - Uniting for Suicide Postvention


 

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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