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Uniting for Suicide Postvention - Getting Started

Workplace Pages: Getting Started | Enhancing Your Plan

After a suicide loss, supervisors and managers are in a prime position to intervene within their organization. Effective leadership following a suicide loss is instrumental to addressing the immediate and ongoing needs of your employees – your actions make a tremendous difference in suicide postvention. This USPV section is designed to help you strengthen your suicide postvention response in the workplace.

Podcast: Postvention Practices for the Workplace

Check out this podcast to learn why suicide postvention plans are necessary for every workplace. Dr. Sally Spencer-Thomas, a psychologist, suicide loss survivor, and suicide prevention leader, provides recommendations for how to put a postvention plan in place and who within a workplace should be involved.
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Visit the website for supporting materials

Check out additional resources, events, and trainings from Dr. Spencer-Thomas by visiting her website: www.sallyspencerthomas.com/

Supporting Employees After a Suicide: Mapping Your Workplace Plan

This infographic features the essential best practice elements of a workplace suicide postvention plan. Once these steps have been included, be sure to enhance your plan by including additional factors that address the unique needs of your workplace.

Download as a PDF Supporting Employees after a Suicide: Mapping Your Workplace Plan.

Workplace Suicide Postvention: Utilizing a Plan and Team

Having a clear, well-developed suicide postvention plan in the workplace is essential to supporting employees after a suicide loss. Taking steps to prepare for a suicide loss will ensure that you are equipped to respond quickly after the loss, allowing individual employees and the organization as a whole to come together in healing. The following short film outlines key steps for creating and implementing an effective workplace postvention plan, including forming a suicide postvention team, training team members, and identifying local and national resources.


English with Audio Description | En Español | En Español con Descripción de Audio

Guidance Documents

Managers Guidebook to Suicide Postvention
This resource offers practical suicide postvention organizational strategies for managers. The guide was created by the Workplace Postvention Task Force of the American Association of Suicidology and the Workplace Task Force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention.
Action Alliance National Guidelines
These guidelines, developed by the Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, present a comprehensive overview of postvention practices, including strategies on how to provide organizational support after a suicide loss.

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