Racism and Discrimination on the Mental Health of our Black Communities: A Guide
Suicide Resources for Survivors
Compiled by Elaine Ducharme, Ph.D, ABPP
- SOS: A Handbook for Survivors of Suicide by Jeffrey Jackson can be very helpful. It’s about 30 pages and is free online; just Google the title. Thus it’s really easy to access. It is intended to be a “bite-sized overview”. It focuses on a wide range of feelings with empathy and sensitivity. It was written in 2003, some of the stats/references are dated.
- The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. This is the text to the page that has some links regarding help for teens and children: https://afsp.org/search-
results/?query=resources% - 20for%20teenshttps://afsp.org/ive-lost-
someone - This book is from The Dougy Center and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. You can just download it or print it. https://aws-fetch.s3.
amazonaws.com/flipbooks/ childrenteenssuicideloss/ index.html?page=1 - https://www.amazon.com/dp/
1879651580/?coliid= I28KDDEKU2D88K&colid= YIU11K0XK6PT&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_ lig_dp_it - Overall resources and numbers from a google search: https://www.google.com/search?
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