Coping with suicide loss
Hope and Healing after Suicide: A practical guide for people who have lost someone to suicide in Ontario
http://knowledgex.camh.net/amhspecialists/resources_families/Documents/hope_and_healing.pdf
Suicide Grief, Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention
www.suicideprevention.ca/survivor-support/suicide-grief/
Grief after Suicide, Canadian Mental Health Association
www.cmha.ca/bins/content_page.asp?cid=3-101-103
Bereavement Issues for Parents, Centre for Suicide Prevention
ww3.suicideinfo.ca/Default.aspx?tabid=723
Survivor bereavement groups
Aboriginal Health Centre
678 Main St. E., Hamilton, ON L8M 1K2
905-544-4320, traditionalhealing@cogeco.net
Bereaved Families of Ontario (BFO), Hamilton Burlington Branch, Self Help groups to support families whose child of any age has died: 905-318-0070
www.bfo-hamiltonburlington.on.ca
Friends in Grief, Hamilton, offers a suicide bereavement support group on the second Wednesday of each month at Bay Gardens Funeral Home, 7:00 pm. Location: 947 Rymal Road East, Hamilton. 905 318-0059
Crisis lines
Emergency 911
COAST (Crisis Outreach and Support Team)
905-972-8338
www.coasthamilton.ca
Salvation Army Suicide Crisis Line
905-522-1477
Telecare Burlingtion
905-681-1488
www.telecareburlington.com
Kids Help Phone
1-800-668-6868
www.kidshelpphone.ca
Web Resources
The Suicide Prevention Community Council of Hamilton
www.spcch.org
Canadian Association for Suicide Prevention
http://www.suicideprevention.ca/
Centre for Suicide Prevention
http://www.suicideinfo.ca/
Ontario Association for Suicide Prevention
http://www.ospn.ca/
American Association for Suicidology
http://nspw.suicidology.org/
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
http://www.afsp.org/
International Association for Suicide Prevention
http://www.iasp.info/
Reasons to Go On Living Project
http://www.thereasons.ca
The Jack Project
http://www.thejackproject.org/
Canadian Coalition for Senior’s Mental Health: Resources and Publications
www.ccsmh.ca/en/projects/suicide.cfm
Honouring Life – The National Aboriginal Health Organization offers culturally relevant information and resources on suicide prevention for Aboriginal youth
www.honouringlife.ca
LGBTQ Youth Line
1-800-268-9688
www.youthline.ca
The Trevor Project provides information about suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth
www.thetrevorproject.org