Other Useful Links

These articles may be useful to those bereaved by suicide and to help identify those friends and family who may be in the ‘at risk’ group.

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  Breaking the Silence
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  The-Hidden-Toll-of-Suicide
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  Youth-Suicide-Full-report-2011

• http://www.livingisforeveryone.com.au
  Australia-wide information on suicide prevention.
• http://suicidepreventionaust.org/Home.aspx
  Suicide Prevention Australia is a non-profit, non-government organisation working as a public health advocate in suicide prevention. SPA is the only national umbrella body active in suicide prevention throughout Australia.
• http://www.lifeline.org.au
  An excellent and gentle website with information, links, and a 24-hour help line (13 11 14)
• http://www.suicidehelpline.org.au
  This is a 24-hour help line in Victoria, but also provides helpful and gentle information for sufferers.
• http://www.kidshelp.com.au
  Traditionally a 24-hour service, Kids Help Line now provides assistance for 5-18 year-olds through this website. The 24-hour number is 1800 551 800.
• http://www.beyondblue.org.au
  Beyondblue is a national, independent, not-for-profit organisation working to address issues associated with depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders in Australia.
• http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Suicide_Prevention
  A collection of resources of suicide prevention in Australia and New Zealand
• http://www.supportaftersuicide.org.au
  Support After Suicide is a program which aims to increase the availability of timely and appropriate support to families, especially those with young children, who are bereaved through suicide.
• http://www.reachout.com.au
  The Reach Out! service, was established in 1998 specifically to address youth suicide. It provides information, support and resources to improve young people’s understanding of mental health issues, develop resilience, increase coping skills, and facilitate help-seeking behaviour.
• http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk:80/csr/linksbereaved.html
  The resources page of the University of Oxford Centre for Suicide Research (UK). Contains a link to a bereavement support pdf, as well as links to many support services in the UK and internationally.
• http://www.opendoors.com.au/ExperiencesC.htm
  Excellent information about the many different responses to grief.
• http://www.kidshelp.com.au/upload/1874.pdf
  Report on the suicide-related calls to Kids Help Line made between 1991 and 1997.
• http://www.lifeline-international.org/
  Information and services for fifteen mainly southern hemisphere countries.
• http://www.mindmatters.edu.au/
  Mind Matters is a mental health resource for secondary schools – everyone involved in secondary schools – across Australia. Includes links to state-specific services.
• http://www.suicidereferencelibrary.com/
  An excellent site full of resources about education, prevention, and support.
• http://www.nsbsn.org/index.htm
  National Suicide Bereavement Support Network. An Irish organisation with links to other European organisations.
• http://www.save.org/
  This American website, called Suicide Awareness/Voices of Education, is not particularly up to date with statistics, but thorough and sympathetic with information surrounding grief and suicide. Information for adults, children, families, survivors, and on warning signs.
• http://www.supportlink.com.au/
  StandBy (suicide bereavement) Response Service is an Australian organization based in Canberra. It works not only with sufferers but also to prevent suicide.
• http://www.suicidology.org/
  An American research body dedicated to the understanding and prevention of suicide. This is not a service, merely information.
• http://www.befrienders.org/
  An excellent, international website with links to services all around the world. Also contains brief and simple advice about bereavement.
• http://nnaami.org/
• National Network of Adult and Adolescent Children who have a Mentally Ill Parent/s