Grief Toolkit: A Collection of Support Resources

Suicide Care

•  Alt2Su: Alternatives to Suicide is a peer-based response to supporting people who have made suicidal attempts or who have experienced suicidal thoughts. Alternatives to Suicide groups are for anyone 18+ years old with personal experiences of suicidal thoughts or actions to talk about suicidal experiences and other forms of emotional distress without fear of being put through a crisis management system.

  • Website: https://alt2su-nsw.net/​

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• Aware Care Library: Cait offers digital downloads that you can purchase on her resource site and value-driven education via Instagram and Tik Tok, @cait.deatheducation. Cait hosts a membership specific to suicide care and conversations, where you gain access to a library of digital suicide-specific resources and receive new content each month, as well as a private Discord where suicide is talked about openly, and access to regularly held peer spaces.

  • Website: https://www.awarecarelibrary.com/​

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• Radical Mental Health First Aide (RMHFA) suicide and safety planning training: These workshops will offer you context on the impact of oppression and social injustice on the body-mind and teach you de-escalation and consent skills. We will go over the RMHFA Action Plan and safety planning in depth. During the workshop participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, practice skills and apply their knowledge.

  • Website: https://ko-fi.com/s/5a139a40cf​

  • Linktree: ConnectWithOumou

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• Now What Now: We have had suicidal thoughts and emotions and problems that felt unsolvable. Here are our stories, including research based ways for managing the most painful moments of life. We teach Mindfulness, Mindfulness of Current Emotion, Opposite Action and Paced-breathing. These skills are part of Dialectical Behavior Therapy or DBT, proven to be helpful for people considering suicide.

  • Website: https://nowmattersnow.org/skills​

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• Live Through This: Live Through This is the first known project of its kind, and the most extensive catalog in existence of stories told by suicide attempt survivors, for suicide attempt survivors. Its mission is to change public attitudes about suicide for the better; to reduce prejudice and discrimination against attempt survivors; to provide comfort to those experiencing suicidal thoughts by letting them know that they’re not alone and tomorrow is possible; to give insight to those who have trouble understanding suicidal thoughts and actions, and catharsis to those who have lost a loved one; and to be used as a teaching tool for clinicians in training, or anyone else who might benefit from a deeper understanding of first-person experiences with suicide.

  • Website: https://livethroughthis.org/​

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• United Suicide Survivors International: We are an independent global organization that serves as a home for people who have experienced suicide loss, suicide attempts, and suicidal thoughts and feelings, and their friends and families – collectively known as people with lived experience with suicide – to leverage their expertise for large-scale change.

  • Website: https://unitesurvivors.org/​

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• Lived Experience Academy: At the Lived Experience Academy, you will find guidance and resources to support healing, recovery, and growth after a suicidal crisis. You will also be joining a community of people who believe in the potential for going beyond recovery in the aftermath of trauma. If you want the confidence to support recovery and growth after a suicidal crisis, then join the Lived Experience Academy today.

  • Website: https://livedexp.academy/​