Resources
Samaritans 24 hour helpline
Phone: 116 123 (English speakers)
Phone: 0808 164 0123 (Welsh speakers)
Writing a letter is to:
Chris
Freepost RSRB-KKBY-CYJK PO Box 9090
STIRLING FK8 2SA
Email jo@samaritans.org Unfortunately, they no longer take texts.
International Suicide Hotlines:
Safe to talk helpline
Tel: 0800 111 4998
HOPELineUk
Young Suicide Prevention Tel: 0800 068 4141
CALM (Campaign Against Men Living Miserably)
Tel: 0800 585858 (Helpline open 5pm-midnight) www.thecalmzone.net/
A charity dedicated to preventing male suicide.
CHUMS
Tel: 01525 863924 or email: info@chums.uk.com http://chums.uk.com
The Trauma Service was set up to offer more help for those children and young people who had experienced a death of someone they knew in a traumatic way, like murder, suicide or other sudden death.
You Are Right That I Am Lucky
I am lucky to live in a world
ablaze in the spring,
the long bodies of the trees
and the brown shoulders
of the earth itself
enrobed in floral glory.
This world at least
requires no viral crown.
I am fortunate to live in a body
fluid, flexible, fit,
that loyally shadows
me through the days,
and shyly accepts the invitation
to lie down with me at night.
And even on a planet unbalanced
by the erratic gravity of fear
I am lifted and held in grace
by an invisible web of love
that catches me when I fall,
helps me find my feet again.
– Robert A. Neimeyer
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself,
Give wine. Give bread.
Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit.
Feast on your life.
– Derek Walcott
General Grief Books
Lifetimes: A Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children, Bryan Mellonie (preschoolers) When Someone Very Special Dies, Marge Heegaard (5–9 year-olds)
The Empty Place, Roberta Temes (5–9 year-olds)
Fire in My Heart, Ice in My Veins, Enid Traisman (teens)
When Death Walks In, Mark Scrivani (teens)
The Next Place, Warren Hanson (families)
The Grieving Child: A Parent’s Guide, Helen Fitzgerald (parents)
Swallowed by a Snake, Thomas Golden (men)
Grief Books for Suicide
Someone I Love Died by Suicide, Doreen Cammarata (young children)
After a Suicide: A workbook, Dougy Center (young children up to 12)
Suicide Survivors, Adina Wrobleski (teens and adults)
Dying to be Free, Beverly Cobain and Jean Larch (teens and adults)
The Forgotten Mourners: Sibling Survivors, John’s Sister
After a Parent’s Suicide: Helping Children Heal, Margo Requarth
Grief Books for Schools
Grief Comes to Class, Majel Gliko-Braden
Helping the Grieving Student, Dougy Center Resource
Supporting Children and Teens through Grief and Loss: A Guide for Schools, Helen McGlauflin Class in Room 44, Lynn Bennett Blackburn
Death in the Classroom, Kathleen Cassini
Parenting Books
A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children, Phyllis Silverman and Madelyn Kelly
Nurture by Nature, Paul and Barbara Tieger
Unconditional Parenting, Alfie Khon
Positive Parenting from A to Z, Karen Joslin
Blessings of a Skinned Knee, Wendy Mogel
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child, John Gottman
kidsaid.com: for and by grieving kids
fireinmyheart.org: for grieving teens
centering.org: resource for books and workbooks
dougycenter.org: many resources including national directory of programmes
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