Suicide represents a tragic waste of life and touches scores of other lives – family, friends, peers and colleagues. All of these people need support immediately following the suicide and often for a significant period afterward. Those bereaved by suicide are themselves at increased risk of suicidal behaviours. Postvention is a critical point of prevention and can contain further loss of life and also needs to include the immediate community, first responders to suicide and professionals.

The Living Hope Bereavement Support training program leads participants through understanding of suicide and its impact which most of the time reverberates across families, extended families, personal and professional networks and indeed the whole community. In this course students learn different practices and skills such as postvention, caregiving, and dos and don’ts in creating a connection to suicide survivors.

This course is complimentary.