Helpful Resources

Resources for people bereaved by suicide

Support After Suicide website

Our dedicated website (www.supportaftersuicide.org.au) offers immediate practical information, material to help you understand grief and suicide, descriptions of support services, and stories by others bereaved by suicide.

Fact sheets

Our fact sheets offer practical information for those bereaved by suicide and their support network:

• What is grief?
• Suicide and grief
• Coping with grief
• Children and grief
• Communicating with children
• Special occasions
• Responding to trauma
• Returning to work
• Supporting a bereaved person

Reading list

Download our recommended reading list – many of the recommended books will be available in your local library.

Online community

Our Support After Suicide Community brings together people who are bereaved by suicide and living in Australia to support one another.

Members can discuss issues that are important to them and meet others who understand their experience.