What is Friends for Survival?

Friends For Survival, Inc. is a national non-profit outreach organization open to those who have lost family or friends by suicide, and also to professionals who work with those who have been touched by a suicide tragedy. Friends For Survival, organized by and for survivors, has been offering services since 1983. All staff and volunteers have been directly impacted by a suicide death.

National Help Line (800) 646-7322  -  Local  Help Line (916) 392-0664

What Does Friends for Survival Offer?

• A monthly newsletter of sharing and information
• Monthly meetings of support and education
• Information and referral regarding local resources
• Comprehensive list of printed resources and tapes and lending library
• Suicide Loss Helpline with volunteers who have shared the tragedy of suicide
• Chapter development and training when local resources are absent
• Program for educating the community on suicide awareness
• Consultation available to workplace and agencies impacted by a suicide death
• Conferences and retreats
• Speakers Bureau
• Community-based chapters
• Training of volunteers

Volunteers needed for

Suicide Bereavement Study

If you are 18 years or older and have been impacted by the suicide of another person, please consider participating in our research study. You will be asked questions about yourself, the person you lost, personal attitudes about those in your social environment and help seeking, and how you manage difficult situations. Participation is entirely up to you. At any point in the survey, you can decide that you are no longer interested in participating.
It is our hope that your participation in this study will help us to better understand the experiences of survivors of suicide loss in general; as well as the ways in which personal factors, such as personality traits and attitudes, impacted your grief experience.
If you are willing to participate, log into
http://goo.gl/x1u1t. Thank you for considering participation in this study. Please feel free to pass this information along to others that you know would qualify for participation.

Sincerely,

Chris Drapeau, MA, Ball State University

Julie Cerel, PhD, University of Kentucky

Melinda Moore, PhD, University of Kentucky

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