Support After Suicide provides a range of services to support children, young people and adults bereaved by suicide.
Support After Suicide operates with belonging, acceptance and understanding.
Support After Suicide provides counselling to individuals, couples and families who are bereaved by suicide.
Support After Suicide facilitates a number of regular support groups and programs for people bereaved by suicide to find connection and support.
Support After Suicide partners with Switchboard Victoria to provide a range of services for LGBTQIA+ people bereaved by suicide.
Our online communities offer people bereaved by suicide to connect and support each other at any time. They are available to anyone in Australia.
An opportunity for people recently bereaved by suicide to hear from our experienced counsellors and someone with lived experience of suicide bereavement.
Our postvention coordination team helps to facilitate a community response to a suicide in a local community.
Visit here to see our upcoming monthly support groups, workshops and special events.
We know that the hours and days after your loved one has passed away can be traumatic and overwhelming. There is support available.
Grief is a universal experience. It is a human response to a loss of someone we love and value. However, it can also be a very difficult experience.
Children may experience grief differently to adults and do not always have the words to express their feelings. It is important to communicate clearly, openly and honestly with children after a loss to suicide.
In grief, particularly following a suicide, it is not uncommon to experience feelings of guilt. These feelings can be very uncomfortable and distressing.
If you have a friend or family member who has lost a loved one to suicide, you may find the information on this page helpful.
As you return to work, celebrate special occasions or are approaching significant dates after the loss of your loved ones, we provide some strategies that you may useful as you navigate your grief.
Here you can find links to our books and publications, informative fact sheets, videos and podcasts, and our regularly updated blog.
Links to crisis services for immediate support, as well as contact details for additional services that provide support to those bereaved by suicide.
Read stories from people who have lost a loved one to suicide.
Our volunteers provide vital lived experience insights to our program.
An initiative of Jesuit Social Services
Support After Suicide have produced a range of information sheets on common topics and questions that we are asked by people who are bereaved by suicide.
It can be helpful to recognise that grief is a process and that each person experiences grief in a unique way.
Grief in response to a suicide can be particularly intense and difficult. It can raise many questions for family and friends.
The experience of bereavement following a suicide can be intense and overwhelming. We provide some activities which may be helpful.
Grief may not be the only experience that people bereaved by suicide face, they may also suffer the impact of trauma.
Dr Rob Gordon shares the importance of looking after yourself during the recovery journey from traumatic grief.
Psychologist Jack Jordan uses the analogy of "The Fair Trial" to assist people to come to terms with persistant feelings of guilt and failure.
Children may grieve differently to adults. We share ways to communicate and support a child who is grieving.
Grief can be a difficult experience, particularly during adolescence, which is a significant time of transition in a young person's life.
Communicating clearly with children is helpful to them in dealing with their grief and in feeling safe and secure.
Returning to work can be a difficult time for a person bereaved by suicide and employers and work colleagues may feel concern and worry.
Special occasions, celebrations and anniversaries can be difficult after the loss of a loved one.
This information has been prepared to assist doctors in general practice in responding to patients who are bereaved by suicide.
This information has been prepared to assist schools in responding to bereavement in their school community, particularly suicide bereavement.
An initiative of Jesuit Social Services