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we would enjoy educating our community, help them become more aware of suicide. Survivors of suicide tools to help them heal would be so great. Thank you so much for any information we can use.
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Hi Dena,
 
Welcome to the Community Tool Box (CTB) and Ask an Advisor, hopefully we can provide you with timely, useful, and directly applicable information to help you in your work with the survivors of suicide and the greater community to raise awareness about suicide. First, I want to say what you're trying to do is so very important and such a need, and we know that this concern will be of great interest to others who visit the CTB. To answer you question I used the search function within the CTB and found a couple of resources you might find interesting regarding peer support groups as a way of helping survivors of suicide to heal; in my estimation peer support groups are one of the best "tools" for dealing with grief and associated emotional distress. If you begin on our home page and click on the "Learn A Skill" button, then click on the "Table of Contents" and scroll down to the section entitled "Implementing Promising Community Interventions" it will take you to Chapter 21. Enhancing Support, Incentives, and Resources » Section 2. Creating and Facilitating Peer Support Groups. Therein you'll find a checklist, examples, tools, and a PowerPoint presentation you can sort through to inform your thinking and action; these are very concrete and come from a variety of highly reliable sources.
 
To get to the other related resource, begin at our home page, again click on the "Learn A Skill" button, click on the"Table of Contents" and scroll down to the section entitled "Communications to Promote Interest and Participation" which will take you to Chapter 7. Encouraging Involvement in Community Work. I think that all eight sections will provide you with a wealth of information which speaks directly to the community awareness aspect of your intervention. The relevant toolkits are numbers 1 - Creating and Maintaining Partnerships and 8 - Increasing Participation and Membership.
 
Well Dena, I hope that helps. If our reply isn't satisfactory, please let us know and we'll work together to find an answer that's more appropriate. With that, we thank you for visiting the Community Tool Box and posing a great question; we really appreciate that you care so deeply about your community and those who suffer. Be well, take care.
 
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Question Date: sam, 05/14/2016