SUICIDE PREVENTION - RESOURCES AND BOOKS

Help Lines

 

Local Help:

Look under Suicide in your local yellow pages.

Suicide Prevention Help Line:

1-800-SUICIDE

Youth Crisis Line:

1-800-999-9999

Trevor Helpline (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered youth):

1-800-850-8078

Norman Institute (gender orientation)

1-816-960-7200

Friends for Survival (survivor line)

1-916-392-0664

Compassionate Friends (parental/sibling grief)

1-630-990-0010


Internet Support for Survivors of Suicide

Parents of Suicide support:

www.onelist.com/subscribe/parentsofsuicide
www.parentsofsuicide.com

1000 Deaths Suicide Survivor Support:

www.1000deaths.com


Private Resources

AAS - American Association of Suicidology

1-202-237-2280 www.suicidology.org

AFSP - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

1-888-333-2377 www.afsp.org

(both AAS & AFSP provide listings of survivor of suicide support groups around the country)

SA\VE - Suicide Awareness\Voices of Education

1-612-946-7998 www.save.org

SIEC - Suicide Information Education Center

1-403-245-3900 www.siec.ca

SPANUSA - Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network

1-888-649-1366 www.spanusa.org

Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Project

1-303-429-3530 www.yellowribbon.org

Bell Campaign - Freedom from Gun Trauma

1-800-746-4464 www.bellcampaign.org

The Link National Center for Suicide Prevention & Aftercare

1-404-256-9797 www.thelink.org

NAMI - National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

1-800-950-6264 www.nami.org

NMHA - National Mental Health Association

1-800-969-6642 www.nmha.org

NOPCAS - National Organization of People of Color Against Suicide

1-512-245-2113 www.geocities.com/nopcas


Governmental Resources

CDC - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control

770-488-4362 www.cdc.gov/ncipc

SAMHSA - Substance Abuse/Mental Health Services

www.samhsa.gov

HRSA - Health Resources Services Administration

www.hrsa.gov

NIMH - National Institute of Mental Health

800-421-4211 www.nimh.nih.gov

   

Books

 

Darkness Visible : A Memoir of Madness
by William Styron

Price: $8.00
You Save: $2.00 (20%)
Paperback - 84 pages (January 1992) Vintage Books;
ISBN: 0679736395 ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.41 x 8.04 x 5.23

Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One
by Ann Smolin, John Guinan (Contributor), Ann Smoin

Price: $9.60
You Save: $2.40 (20%)
Paperback - 223 pages (June 1993) Fireside;
ISBN: 0671796607 ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.59 x 8.40 x 5.49

Silent Grief : Living in the Wake of Suicide
(The Master Works Series)
by Christopher Lukas, Henry M. Seiden (Contributor)

Price: $32.00
You Save: $8.00 (20%)
Paperback - 264 pages (June 1997) Jason Aronson;
ISBN: 0765700565 ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.59 x 8.97 x 6.03

Night Falls Fast : Understanding Suicide
by Kay Redfield Jamison

Price: $18.20
You Save: $7.80 (30%)
Hardcover - 432 pages 1 Ed edition (October 1999) Knopf;
ISBN: 0375401458
Dimensions (in inches): 1.37 x 8.72 x 6.03

An Unquiet Mind
by Kay Redfield Jamison

Price: $18.20
You Save: $7.80 (30%)
Hardcover - 223 pages (September 1995) Knopf;
ISBN: 0679443746 ;
Dimensions (in inches): 0.97 x 8.66 x 5.25

 

My Son...My Son : A Guide to Healing After Death, Loss, or Suicide
by Iris Bolton

Paperback Revised edition (June 1983) Bolton Pr Atlanta;
ISBN: 0961632607
You can order this book from Mental Health Resources, call 1-877-MHR-0202.

 

Words I Never Thought to Speak; Stories of Life in the Wake of Suicide
by Victoria G. Alexander

Hardcover (September 1991) Lexington Books;
ISBN: 066920904X
You can order this book from Mental Health Resources, call 1-877-MHR-0202.

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