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Best Practices & resources

Survivor of Loss
- Website: Find a Survivor Support Group
- Booklet: Surviving a Suicide Loss
- Booklet: Survivors of Suicide
- Local Resources:
  - Idaho - Order Survivor of Loss Packet
  - Utah - Local Resources by County
    - Download “Permission to Grieve”
Education
- Book: Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention, and Postvention (School-Based Practice in Action)
- Booklet: Children, Teens, and Suicide Loss
- Website: Hope Squad: Postvention Tools
- Booklet: After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools
- Booklet: Model School Policy on Suicide Prevention - The Model School Policy on Suicide Prevention gives educators and school administrators clear guidance on how to implement suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention policies in their schools and districts.
- Website: National Association of School Psychologists
- Podcast: Postvention Practices for Schools
- Webinar: Model School District Suicide Prevention Policy Webinar
Workplace
- Booklet: Managers Guide to Postvention in the Workplace
Healthcare
Funeral Homes & Faith-based Organizations
- Booklet: Supporting Survivors of Loss
- Booklet: After a Suicide - Recommendations for Religious Services and Other Public Memorials
Postvention Community Programs/Training
- Loss Team - Postvention Workshop and Training
- Connect - Postvention Training

““When someone dies of cancer or heart disease or AIDS, you don’t have to worry about messaging it wrong.””

— Christine Moutier, the chief medical officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Messaging & Media

Website: Media Messaging - National Action Alliance
Website: Reporting on Suicide, Guidelines: Recommendation Guidelines
Booklet: Suicide and Social Media
Booklet: Media as Partners in Suicide

Contagion

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