Help is available

Do you want to talk to someone who themselves have been bereaved by suicide?

1. Call the Bereaved Through Suicide telephone support line on 8332 8240: www.bts.org.au
2. Request free telephone counselling (six 50-minute professional counselling sessions) from the Suicide Call Back Service: a free nation-wide telephone support service for those at risk of suicide, anyone concerned about a loved one at risk and those bereaved by suicide: Phone 1300 659 467  seven days a week, 10am-8:30pm
3. Phone numbers for use throughout Australia

Lifeline

Telephone 13 11 14
www.lifeline.org.au

Kids Help Line

Kids Help Line is a free, confidential and anonymous, telephone and online counselling service specifically for young people aged between 5 and 25.
Telephone 1800 55 1800
www.kidshelpline.com.au

You can also download these fact sheets

• Where to go for help

• After the suicide: things to think about
• Organisations and other people you need to notify
• Coping with anniversary dates
• Kids and funerals
• Talking to children
• Suicide and Christianity
• Useful prayers from the Salvos website
• I didn't stop loving you
• Suicide and grief
• Some dos and don'ts
• Helping a man who is grieving
• Different elements of grief, and beyond surviving
• Aboriginal people and suicide
• Helping an employee return to work after a suicide in their family
• When children face trauma
• The club no-one wants to belong to

For more information about the service, click here.

If you'd like to be a volunteer with Living Beyond Suicide, click here.

If you'd like to know more about forthcoming training, click here.

And for useful links, click here.