Hope after Suicide Loss

This is a website designed by survivors for survivors.

Hope after Suicide Loss provides a professional service with peer-led values.

Hope after Suicide Loss (HOPE) exists to meet the complex needs of suicide bereavement. At HOPE we believe suicide loss should not remain under the care of general bereavement.

A clear distinction needs to be made between the support offered for suicide loss that is recognised as psychological trauma and support given to uncomplicated grief.

Photo by Jack Groome in loving memory of Stephen Groome.

HOPE would never claim survivors have a monopoly on pain during grief. However, suicide bereavement is different from all other grief and that difference hinges on the fact suicide remains the only death where a person has died by their own hand.

This painful truth has the potential to haunt and torment survivors profoundly affected by suicide for many years after the event.

HOPE offers open ended support to overcome the isolation experienced by those bereaved by suicide who are 18 years and over.

We are a peer-led organisation and all group meetings are facilitated by a survivor who was once profoundly affected by suicide and can now bring HOPE to those still in shock and traumatised. Likewise, all one to one support is delivered by individuals, living in Suffolk or Norfolk, who have gone through and experienced the unique challenges of suicide loss and can give evidence of making a good recovery.

All individuals delivering support for HOPE are required to:

  • Have personal experience of suicide loss.
  • Enhanced DBS clearance
  • Attend monthly supervision
  • Participate in training and workshops as required
  • Have a minimum of CPCAB Level 3 counselling skills training or be working towards the qualification
  • Have completed a recognised Adult Safeguarding training.