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Suicide and crisis support in over 40 countries. The site features a comprehensive list of helplines and pages in many languages.
http://www.befrienders.org/index.html
Christian support group for those who are thinking of suicide.
http://members.aol.com/wnichint/Suicide.html
A suicide prevention association located in Ontairio. Includes links for people in crisis, and description of their services and workshops.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/masecard/index.html
An email support group for any parents who have lost a child to suicide, and memorials to these children.
http://www.parentsofsuicide.com
Focused on suicide survivors support groups and helping survivors heal. Also includes resources and information for disorders connected to suicide. Christian-themed.
http://www.road2healing.com
Counselling and support in 15 countries mostly in the Southern Hemisphere.
http://www.lifeline.web.za/
Prevention of youth suicide. Involved in a range of community based programs, and are in constant need of volunteers as well as monetary donations to help curb the youth suicide rate in Australia.
http://www.hereforlife.org.au/
Youth Suicide Prevention in the Greater Murray Area, NSW, Australia. A project for young people, run by young people.
http://www.makeanoise.ysp.org.au/
To provide support for those planning suicide, or those trying to help a suicidal person to live. Information on what to do and how to cope. Includes depression chatrooms and hosted support groups.
http://www.healthyplace.com/Comm.../Depression/wilkerson/index.html
Suicide awareness, information, memorials, and links to suicide hotlines. Volunteers providing those in need,with support and help.
http://suicide-awareness.00page.com/index.html
Support for those who are bereaving a loss to suicide. Includes healing poetry, resources and referrals.
http://JuggleCat.tripod.com/SOS/
A memorial to those who died by suicide, sponsored by the Friends and Families of Suicides email support group. Visitors may submit names to be placed on the wall.
http://www.suicidememorialwall.com
Provides support and assistance to people who have been bereaved by suicide and to people that support them.
http://www.supportfind.com/cbssg
A crisis intervention centre for the Suicidal and depressed in New Delhi. A voluntary NGO. Contact information.
http://www.sumaitri.org/
A network of suicide and crisis support services in 20 States across the USA.
http://contactusa.org/
International Federation of Telephonic Emergency Services. Helplines in 31 countries, mostly in Europe.
http://www.ifotes.org
Available 24 hours a day to provide confidential emotional support for people who are experiencing feelings of distress, despair or suicidal thoughts. A registered charity based in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
http://www.samaritans.org
Focuses on prevention and includes danger signs and help with teenage depression.
http://www.1-teenage-suicide.com
Suicide and crisis support information in 10 languages. Includes a list of helplines around the world.
http://www.suicideinfo.org
Bev Cobain's information about child, teen, and adolescent (youth) depression, bipolar illness, youth suicide prevention, intervention, and training workshops.
http://www.livingmatters.com
Offers hope through stories of people who have been there, discussion boards, help lines, and help chats.
http://www.suicide.com
Provides a simple attitudional shift in perspective to help people to cope with problems feeling overwhelming at the moment.
http://peace-of-mind.net
Time heals all wounds is not necessarily true for survivors of suicide. Time is necessary for healing, but time is not enough. Shared feelings enrich and lead to growth and healing. Online Support group for survivors of suicide.
http://www.survivorsofsuicide.com
SOBS (Survivors Of Bereavement by Suicide) is a self-help, voluntary organisation. Many of those helping have, themselves, been bereaved by suicide.
http://www.uk-sobs.org.uk
Crisis information and hotline, support and resources for the suicidal person. How to help a suicidal person and resources for the survivor.
http://www.mhsanctuary.com/suicide/
Supportive virtual resource centre for men who suffer from depression or experience suicidal thoughts. Offers alternative problem solving techniques to suicide.
http://www.theblackdog.net
South-West Queensland. Provides counselling services to anyone experiencing an emotional or personal problem or crisis. Telephone sessions available.
http://www.lifelinedarlingdowns.org.au/
Education and program support to help reduce depression-related teenage suicide.
http://www.thekeltyfoundation.org
Strives to reduce the number of incidents of suicide and suicide attempts in the Alberta community through education and awareness activities.
http://www.camrosesuicideawareness.org
Peer support for those who have lost a loved one to suicide.
http://www.healingafterloss.org
Support groups and information for suicide grievers in the greater Philadelphia, PA area.
http://phillysos.tripod.com
Nonprofit organization supporting suicide prevention, intervention, and response.
http://www.communityforhope.org
Story of the lives of a child and a tree as they attempt to survive.
http://hometown.aol.com/oldhollowtree
Discussion site for those whose lives have been affected by suicide. Emphases on the impact of suicide on friends, family and society, prevention, and solutions.
http://www.angelfire.com/ga4/ffos/Suicide_Discussion_Board.html
Chat rooms for survivors of suicide attempts and their loved ones.
http://HealingAfterLoss.Org/halo/sos.html
Global online support group for those bereaved by suicide, offering discussions, memorials, message boards. Operated by survivors of suicide.
http://www.healingthehurt.com
Emotional support, help and resources for the suicidal person and for suicide survivors. Phone and email crisis hotline.
http://www.mental-health-today.com/suicide/
National charity in the UK offering information to young people, parents and professionals working in suicide prevention.
http://www.papyrus-uk.org
Non-religious charity that provides support and suicide hotline.
http://www.samaritans-fallriver.org
Online support group of people who are copping with the loss of someone to suicide.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/survivorsofsomeonessuicide
Help for those who have lost a loved one to suicide, research into suicide prevention, and information.
http://www.sosdc.org
Online suicide support group for those who have lost a loved one to suicide.
http://www.journeythroughsuicidegrief.com
Support for families who have suffered the loss of a child to suicide. Resources on depression, suicide, healing and life after death.
http://childsuicide.homestead.com
Help for suicidal people or people who self harm.
http://www.geocities.com/cheekyde2003/index.html
Suicide help listening service for English speakers in France.
http://www.soshelpline.org
UK based voluntary agency provides help, support and counselling (both on and off-line) for those bereaved by suicide.
http://www.casts.org.uk
Support group for both suicidal people and those who have lost a loved one to suicide.
http://groups.msn.com/nomoresuicide
Email support group for those who have lost a loved one to suicide.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/JourneyThroughSuicideGrief/
A group dedicated to supporting survivors of suicide loss and to educating the community about suicide.
http://www.fresnosos.org
Round the clock confidential support for suicide, depression, and crisis for residents of Mississauga, Brampton and the Town of Caledon.
http://www.distresscentrepeel.com
Support for parents that have lost a child to suicide.
http://www.geocities.com/parents...evingchildrenofsuicide/Home.html
Support group in Albuquerque, New Mexico for those who are suffering the loss of a loved one by suicide.
http://www.sosabq.org
Maithri is an organisation working for suicide prevention. Awareness information and support contacts in India.
http://www.maithrikochi.org
For those in a suicidal crisis, Maytree offers short-term accommodation with befriending in a confidential, supportive and non-medical environment.
http://www.maytree.org.uk
Non-profit foundation formed to provide opportunities of hope for at-risk youth.
http://www.byronpeterfoundation.org
Dedicated to increasing public awareness about suicide while working to help suicidal people choose to continue to live.
http://www.igivetolive.org
IVRS-based HelpLine service by BrahmaKumaris Spiritual Organisation running in cities across India and Nepal. Helps people to convert their suicidal-thoughts into love-for-life, stress into success, pressure into pleasure and burden into blessings.
http://www.OmShantiHelpLine.com
A website for young people who have lost someone to suicide.
http://www.geocities.com/grievingteen/
A free international peer to peer support forum for people in crisis.
http://www.suicideforum.com
ACROSSnet provides access to information, education and support regarding suicide and its prevention, particularly for rural and remote Australians.
http://www.acrossnet.net.au
Information resource and discussion group for people grieving the loss of a loved one to suicide.
http://groups.msn.com/Whenalovedonecommitssuicide/
A musical dealing with issues that commonly lead to suicide, and an affiliated training program for prevention. Designed to foster widespread awareness about suicide.
http://www.withonevoice.org
The site has two sections, information and cyber support for survivors and a memorial section.
http://thegiftofkeith.org
A message board support group for those who have lost a loved on to suicide. This is the new site for the old MSN group.
http://www.jameswhome.net/WhenALovedOneCommitsSuicide/