Resources

Brochures & Posters

• Hope for Life A3 poster.pdf
• HOPE LINE.pdf
• Living Hope A3 Poster.pdf
• Living Hope Brochure.pdf
• QPR Brochure.pdf
• QPR A3 Poster.pdf

Articles

• Australian Aboriginal suicide: the need for an Aboriginal suicidology? by Terri Elliott-Farrelly.
  http://www.auseinet.com/journal/vol3iss3/elliottfarrelly.pdf
• Archives of Suicide Research, compiled by the International Academy of Suicide Research (IASR).
  http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13811118.asp
• Personality Traits linked to Suicidal Behaviour, Cross Currents, The journal of Addiction and Mental Health, 2006.
  http://www.mywire.com/pubs/CrossCurrents/2006/03/22/1432629?&pbl=11
• Towards Understanding & Bereavement Information - These booklets are provided by courtesy of the Regional Suicide Resource Office attached to St. Patrick's Hospital, in Waterford, Ireland
  Published by the Communications Department, ISBN: 1-874218-16-1, Reference Number: 11-02-0071
  Towards Understanding
  Bereavement Information

Books

• Against Depression, Peter D. Kramer
• A Fork in The Road: My Story of Suicide and Survival, Donna Simmons
• After Suicide, John Hewitt
• After Suicide Loss: Coping With Your Grief, Bob Baugher Ph.D and Jack Jordan, Ph.D.
• After the Death of a Child, Ann K. Finkbeiner
• An Unquiet Mind , Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
• But I Didn’t Say Goodbye , Barbara Rubel
• Darkness Visible, William Styron
• Healing After Suicide of a Loved One, Ann Smolin and John Guinana, Ph.D.
• Lament For a Son, Nicholas Wolterstorff
• Losing a Child, Linda Hurcombe
• Night Falls Fast, Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.
• No Time to Say Goodbye, Carla Fine
• Remembering Garrett, United States Senator Gordon H. Smith
• Standing Beside You: A Book for Bereaved Parents, Linda K. Maurer
• Survivors of Suicide, Rita Robinson and Phyllis Hart
• Suicide Why? , Adina Wrobleski
• The Suicidal Mind, Edwin Shneidman
• Touched By Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, Ph.D.

Child and Adolescent Books

• My Uncle Keith Died, Carol Loehr

Siblings

• An Empty Chair: Living in the Wake of a Sibling’s Suicide, Sara Swan Miller and Martin B. Miller
• Do They Have Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving Sibling Loss, Michelle Linn-Gust

Compiled by Carol Loehr (http://www.thegiftofkeith.org/info/main.html)
General searches – visit http://books.google.com.au/books?q=books+on+suicide&ots=30clYhGaIp&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title to access a broad range of books devoted to studies, personal stories and reflections on suicude.

Websites

• http://cebmh.warne.ox.ac.uk:80/csr/linksbereaved.html The resources page of the University of Oxford Centre for Suicide Research (UK). Contains a link to a bereavement support pdf, as well as links to many support services in the UK and internationally.
• http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Oasis/6831/ Survivors of Suicide Bereavement Support Association Inc. This is a Queensland organization with a wide variety of bereavement resources, including information for employers, the language of sympathy, and others. Resources are $5 per booklet.
• http://www.opendoors.com.au/ExperiencesC.htm Excellent information about the many different responses to grief.
• http://www.kidshelp.com.au/upload/1874.pdf Report on the suicide-related calls to Kids Help Line made between 1991 and 1997.
• http://www.lifeline-international.org/ Information and services for fifteen mainly southern hemisphere countries.
• http://cms.curriculum.edu.au/mindmatters/ Mind Matters is a mental health resource for secondary schools – everyone involved in secondary schools - across Australia. Includes links to state-specific services.
• http://cms.curriculum.edu.au/mindmatters/resources/mmbook.htm The resources page of Mind Matters with pdf booklets on grief and bereavement, and mental health. The resources are good for educators and professionals working in secondary education.
• http://www.sane.org/information/factsheets/suicidal_behaviour_and_self-harm.html A Fact sheet from SANE about suicide.
• http://www.livingisforeveryone.com.au Australia-wide information on suicide prevention.
• http://www.suicidereferencelibrary.com/ An excellent site full of resources about education, prevention, and support.
• National Suicide Bereavement Support Network. An Irish organisation with links to other European organisations http://www.nsbsn.org/index.htm
• Survivors of Bereavement by Suicide (SOBS). A British site with an excellent resource library http://sobs.admin.care4free.net/
• http://www.save.org/ This American website, called Suicide Awareness/Voices of Education, is not particularly up to date with statistics, but thorough and sympathetic with information surrounding grief and suicide. Information for adults, children, families, survivors, and on warning signs.
• https://www.supportlink.com.au/standby/index.htm StandBy (suicide bereavement) Response Service is an Australian organization based in Canberra. It works not only with sufferers but also to prevent suicide.
• http://www.lifeline.org.au/ An excellent and gentle website with information, links, and a 24-hour help line (13 11 14)
• http://www.suicidology.org/ An American research body dedicated to the understanding and prevention of suicide. This is not a service, merely information.
• http://www.befrienders.org/ An excellent, international website with links to services all around the world. Also contains brief and simple advice about bereavement.
• http://www.suicidehelpline.org.au/ This is a 24-hour help line in Victoria, but also provides helpful and gentle information for sufferers.
• http://www.kidshelp.com.au/ Traditionally a 24-hour service, Kids Help Line now provides assistance for 5-18 year-olds through this website. The 24-hour number is 1800 551 800.
• http://www.beyondblue.org.au Beyondblue is a national, independent, not-for-profit organisation working to address issues associated with depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders in Australia.
• http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/topics/Suicide_Prevention A collection of resources of suicide prevention in Australia and New Zealand
  
• http://www.supportaftersuicide.org.au/ Support After Suicide is a program which aims to increase the availability of timely and appropriate support to families, especially those with young children, who are bereaved through suicide.
• http://www.auseinet.com/suiprev/index.php The key focus of the Australian Network for Promotion, Prevention and Early Intervention for Mental Health (Auseinet) is to assist a range of sectors to implement mental health promotion and illness prevention approaches in their respective settings.
• http://www.reachout.com.au/ The Reach Out! service, was established in 1998 specifically to address youth suicide. It provides information, support and resources to improve young people's understanding of mental health issues, develop resilience, increase coping skills, and facilitate help-seeking behaviour.
• http://nnaami.org/ National Network of Adult and Adolescent Children who have a Mentally Ill Parent/s