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Help and support

Below is a list of support services where individuals and families bereaved by suicide can access help and support.

Amparo

AMPARO is a seven-days a week service providing practical & emotional support to those of any age bereaved by suicide, working with individuals and communities up to and beyond coronial inquest.

Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SoBS)

Supporting adults impacted by suicide loss with peer-led support. Helping individuals support each other at the time of their loss and in the months and years that follow by providing safe, confidential environments where people can share their experiences and feelings.

Within Cheshire and Merseyside, groups currently run in Chester, Crewe, Macclesfield, Warrington, Wirral, Liverpool, and St. Helens.

Children and Young People Peer-to-Peer Support

Supporting children, and their families, who have been bereaved by suicide.

Paul’s Place

A free specialist postvention bereavement counselling service, for those bereaved by suicide.

Support After Suicide resources

Below are a range of resources and guides for people bereaved by suicide.  

Help is at Hand

It can be difficult to know where to start. The Help is at Hand booklet provides a resource for people bereaved through suicide or other unexplained death, and for those helping them.

First Hand

First Hand is for anyone affected by witnessing a suicide, when they did not know the person who has died. This may be because you happened to be at a particular location, or because your job involves responding to these incidents.

Finding the Words

Many of us struggle to talk about death or feel awkward around someone who has been bereaved. Even those closest to us. We worry about saying the wrong thing, about making things worse. When someone dies by suicide, those affected and bereaved have significantly less chance of receiving support from friends and family.

Guidance for Educational Settings Following a Suicide or Sudden Death

This guide is designed as a comprehensive resource for schools and other educational settings to turn to in the tragic event of a suicide or sudden death in their community.

Step by Step Samaritans service

Providing practical support to help young people’s educational services settings recover from an attempted or suspected suicide.

How to respond to a student suicide: Suicide Safer guidance on postvention

This guidance on postvention provides practical advice on how to give compassionate, confident and timely support when a student death by suspected suicide takes place.

NHS employee suicide: a postvention toolkit to help manage the impact and provide support

This guidance on postvention provides practical advice to professionals following suicide.

Supporting mental health staff following the death of a patient by suicide: A prevention and postvention framework

This guidance on postvention provides practical advice to professionals following suicide.

Supporting people who are bereaved by suicide who are neurodivergent

This guide is for professionals working with adults and young adults who have been bereaved or affected by suicide and are, or may be, neurodivergent.