LIVING Beyond Suicide

For support in the hours and days after a suicide, phone 1300 76 11 93 (call costs 27.5 cents)

Download a postcard here

Trained Family Support Volunteers are on call to stand by you and guide you through the maze of things to do facing the bereaved.

Do you have the heart to standby a family bereaved by suicide?

Download a brochure here for

Volunteers

Has someone you knew suicided recently?

Do you want to talk to someone who themselves have been bereaved by suicide?

Call the Bereaved Through Suicide telephone support line on 8332 8240

Living Beyond Suicide is a new service of Anglicare's Loss and Grief Centre.

Living Beyond Suicide offers survivor-sensitive early support for families bereaved through suicide. Emotional and practical support is provided by appropriately skilled and trained volunteers to help families navigate service systems and access the assistance they need. The service will engender a survivor sensitivity and responsiveness within services, public authorities and the wider community through community-based education and capacity building.

Unique Attributes

Metropolitan and state-wide service
Highly trained, professionally supervised, survivor sensitive volunteer base
No cost
Anyone can refer
Quick ‘round-the-clock’ flexible response to suicide
Emotional and practical support offered to families – when and where it’s needed
Assistance provided with navigating the maze of post-suicide systems and services – information provision and linkage to relevant services
Responsive to individual, family and community needs
Community capacity building, with a strong commitment to regional areas
Awareness-raising and education focus
Working in close collaboration with other services
Informed by, and informing, leading research in the field.

Survivor-sensitive volunteers are now being recruited. Living Beyond Suicide will be accepting referrals for families bereaved through suicide towards the end of 2007

Contact:

For more information, click here to download the brochure.

Living Beyond Suicide Coordinator: Ali Laslett, email lbs@anglicare-sa.org.au
Telephone 8301 4200
Mob 0448 664 864

click here to download the application form to be a volunteer

click here to download the application form for a police check

For more information and support, visit GriefLink at www.grieflink.asn.au

How can I help a person who is suicidal? http://www.mcsp.org.au/suicide/help

Some other links you may find helpful

Information Support Pack

The Care & Support Pack for Families & Friends bereaved by Suicide: NSW government publication freely downloaded from web

Aboriginal Support Page: Grieving Aboriginal Way

ASPiRE Australian Suicide Prevention Information and Research Exchange

RD4U: RD4U is a website designed for young people by young people.

What about? — Common questions

After A Suicide: Recommendations for Religious Services and Other Public Memorial Observations A 13 page booklet

Winston’s Wish: Help for grieving children and their families

Mensline Australia Family and Relationship matters

Sibling Survivors for brothers and sisters

If you are thinking about suicide, read this first: A helpful website if contemplating suicide

Depressionet Australian support and fact sheets on depression

Depnet Australia: An everyday support about depression with chat rooms and downloads

Supporting children after a suicide: A 23 page booklet

“SOS Handbook” (Survivors of Suicide): An excellent 36-page booklet for survivors

American Association of Suicidology: Resources for people bereaved by suicide, including fact sheets and bibliography.

NSW support pack: Care and support pack for families bereaved through suicide

Compassionate Friends UK: A wide range of helpful brochures

Cruse bereavement care Leaflets to download

Suicide Awareness Voices of Education: Copying with Loss

Professional clean up services

www.angelfire.com/ga4/ffos/Suicide_Discussion_Board.html. Survivor discussion board.

www.griefnet.org. Internet community of people dealing with death, and loss. Sponsors 47 email support groups, organized by type of loss (including suicide) and relationship.

www.grohol.com/helpme.htm. Email support groups based on relationship (including groups for children, which are moderated by adults) and special interest. Also has links to other online resources.

www.groww.org/Branches/sos.htm. Email support group.

'Parents of Suicides' email support group exclusively for parents who've lost a child to suicide. For information, send an email to karylofcolumbia@cs.com.

www.pbs.org/weblab/living Created by a survivor to provide a space for survivors to share their stories.

www.compassionatefriends.org. Sponsors on-line chat groups for those who've lost a child or sibling (not specific to suicide). Also has links to other online resources.

Other web sites of interest:

www.beforetheirtime.org. Before Their Time is a three-volume, six-CD compilation of memorial songs for survivors. From Joan Baez to Cheryl Wheeler, 80 artists contributed songs they wrote after the death of someone they love. A perfect condolence gift that provides comfort through all the stages of grief that survivors encounter. All sales benefit AFSP.

www.thegiftofkeith.org/info/main_navigation.html. Created by a survivor family that contains information and resources about surviving suicide loss.

www.siblingsurvivors.com. Created by a survivor after she lost her sister to suicide.

www.suicidememorialwall.com. Created to remember some of the names of those who died by suicide and to encourage survivors to better understand the causes of suicide.

www.survivorsofsuicide.com. Comprehensive web site for suicide survivors.

Spiritual and Cultural Well-Being After a Suicide - for Indigenous Communities

Phone numbers for use throughout Australia

· Lifeline, 13 11 14 www.lifeline.org.au

· Kids Help Line, 1800 55 1800 Kids Help Line is Australia's only free, confidential and anonymous, telephone and online counselling service specifically for young people aged between 5 and 25. www.kidshelpline.com.au