Bereaved by suicide

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Whether you lose a partner, parent, child, friend or colleague to suicide it can be an overwhelming and difficult time. Yet, when someone takes their own life, those affected and bereaved have less chance of receiving support from friends and family. We have therefore complied some useful resources and services to support those experiencing, or supporting someone, through this bereavement.

Resources and tools to support you, or someone you know, bereaved by suicide

Finding the Words How to support someone who has been bereaved and affected by suicide.

First Hand Making sense of the lasting memories and emotions following the suicide of someone you didn’t know.

Has someone died? Restoring hope This leaflet is about what you can do to help yourself, how others can help you, how you can help other people who may be struggling to cope after the death of someone close, and where you can get more advice and support.

Bereaved by suicide service

Herefordshire and Worcestershire's Bereaved by Suicide service is now delivered by Herefordshire Mind.

The service offers practical and emotional support to anyone impacted by suicide. People will be able to access one-to-one support and guidance to help them navigate grief and understand their experience.

The service is free and confidential and available to anyone in Herefordshire who has been affected by suicide, no matter how long ago the bereavement took place. Self-referals can be submitted via the Herefordshire Mind website.

For more information or to access support, please email hre.bbs@herefordshire-mind.org.uk

or call 01432 271643

Cruse Bereavement Care offer free, counsellor led, 1-1 and peer support groups in Herefordshire and Worcestershire for people bereaved by suicide.

➡ 01432 359 469

➡ herefordshire@cruse.org.uk

Herefordshire and WorcestershireBereavement Toolkit: Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care System

Pheonix Bereavement Support provide a free specialist service in Herefordshire for children, young people (5-25) and their families when a family member or someone else close to them dies.

➡ 01432 264 555

➡ info@phoenixbereavement.org

Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SoBs) offer a national help line and a multitude of online resources for adults bereaved by suicide. They help individuals support each other, at the time of their loss and in the months and years that follow.

➡ 0300 111 5065

Suicide&Co support those bereaved by suicide, offering one-on-one professional support through talking therapies, their Counselling Service and Helpline, staffed by bereavement counsellors. While also offering a free self-support app called Sidekick providing general mental health exercises, and personalised suicide bereavement specific resources.

➡ 0800 054 8400 (open 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday)

Winston’s Wish provides emotional and practical bereavement support to children, young people (up to 25) and those who care for them. They offer one off and ongoing bereavement support and we also provide online resources, specialist publications and training for professionals.

➡ 0808 802 0021. (open 8am-8pm, Monday to Friday)

Support After Suicide Partnership offers a comprehensive online tool kit for anyone affected by suicide or supporting someone else. They offer resources, stories and a local support directory.