AFSP teaches schools, communities, and workplaces how to prevent suicide.

AFSP was founded on research, and develops evidence-based programs using the latest science on suicide prevention.

Their programs include training in mental health and suicide prevention for schools.

https://afsp.org/our-work/education/

NAMI Nevada County (National Alliance for Mental Illness) is a grassroots, family, and consumer self-help support and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with severe mental illnesses such as:

• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar disorder (manic depressive)
• Clinical depression
• Panic disorder
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (O.C.D)
• P.T.S.D.

NAMI offers support groups and educational classes for families experiencing a mental illness such as:

• Family Support
  • IN PERSON Support Meetings
    Twin Cities Church - Room 129
    (enter the on the far left side of the church)
    1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month
    5:30 - 7:30pm
    
    ZOOM Online Support Meetings
    2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month 
    5:30 - 7:30pm
• Family to Family education class (two times yearly)
• Monthly general education meetings
• And more on NAMI's website: https://www.naminevadacounty.org/support

NAMI Family Support Group
Support groups are provided each week. Please go to the website at https://www.namine… [read more]

NAMI Nevada County (National Alliance for Mental Illness) offers a free 8 week educational program that helps family members and friends understand mental illness symptoms, basics of brain biology, problem solving, medications, empathy, communication skills, self-care, rehabilitation, fighting stigma, and advocacy.

Course offered twice a year. Contact NAMI for dates. https://www.naminevadacounty.org

NAMI can provide suicide prevention resources.

 

Friendship Line California operates as both a warmline and as a crisis hotline.

• Warmline
  • Available for routine phone calls in order to provide support, reassurance, well-being checks, and information and referral for additional care.
• Crisis line
  • Available to older and disabled adults who may be lonely, bereaved, depressed, and at a higher risk for suicide.

Friendship Line CA offers confidential discussions for people ages 60 years and over and adults with mental and/or physical disabilities who may be lonely, isolated, grieving, experiencing depression, anxiety and/or thinking about death or suicide. Provides emotional support over the phone for incoming calls and for regularly scheduled outgoing calls. 1-800-971-0016

Websites:

• Friendship Line California - https://www.ioaging.org/friendship-line-california

At the Grief and Loss Support link below are some resources put together by a survivor and the founder of the E+R (Empower + Resilience) project. **These are suggested titles/resources and are not official endorsements by the County of Placer.**

Resources include books, organizations, support groups (including Facebook, virtual, and in-person).

Web pages

• Grief and Loss Support - https://www.placer.ca.gov/8704/Grief
• (Em)power + Resilience Project - https://www.placer.ca.gov/8703/Empower-Resilience-Project
• Criminal Justice Process - https://www.placer.ca.gov/7238/Know-the-process
• 211 list of Grief, Loss, & Bereavement resources - https://cde.211connectingpoint.org/resource/86129056/

The Grief Recovery Institute's (GRI) evidence-based Grief Recovery Method helps people move through grief resulting from losses of many kinds. Losses may include death, divorce, end of relationships, job or career changes, moving, and many more. The process is detailed in The Grief Recovery Handbook and other GRI publications and workshops. The program can be done by using the book on its own, or with a group. The Grief Recovery Method is an educational, action-based program. It is not counseling or therapy. It is also not an ongoing support group.
 
GRI offers a free downloadable informational e-book, publishes several books, offers workshops, and trains Grief Recovery Specialists internationally.
 
Research conducted by Kent State University has shown that The Grief Recovery Method approach to helping grievers deal with the pain of emotional loss in any relationship is evidence-based and effective.

Web pages

• Grief Recovery Method home page - https://www.griefrecoverym…

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In addition to specific resources noted below, people may find support for attending to grief and loss from the following:

• Spiritual or cultural affiliations you may already have (including Native American or other Indigenous traditions; religious traditions such as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism)
• Clergy; Chaplains (may be affiliated with hospitals, hospice, law enforcement agencies, etc)
• Hospices & hospitals
• Psychotherapists & counselors
• Recommendations and resources from family and friends 

RESOURCES

• Bereaved Parents of the USA - www.bereavedparentsusa.org. Find local chapters and other resources.
• Compassionate Friends – www.thecompassionatefriends.org. A self-help organization for bereaved families that have experienced the death of a child. Find local chapters and other resources.
• County of Placer District Attorney’s Office - https://www.placer.ca.gov/8704/Grief. Includes list of books addressing grief in general, and for specific kinds of losses; sup…

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Personal Support for Survivors of Suicide Loss

Healing Conversations – formerly known as the Survivor Outreach Program – gives those who have lost someone to suicide the opportunity to talk with our experienced volunteers. These AFSP volunteers, who are themselves survivors of suicide loss, offer understanding and guidance in the weeks and months following a suicide death.

Available in person, on the phone or by video chat, volunteers are familiar with the isolation that so often accompanies a death of this kind, and are able to show suicide loss survivors a way forward into a world of support, by creating an opportunity for the newly bereaved to speak openly with, and ask questions of, someone who has been there too.

When someone contacts AFSP to request a conversation, AFSP will ask them some questions about their loss, so that they may match them with a suitable volunteer who has experienced a similar loss. Their peer support volunteer will contact them to schedule a conversation… [read more]

Healing Through Loss & Grief is a group program for anyone who has experienced a significant emotional loss whether that loss is due to death (including suicide), divorce, or other life events, recent or past. Provides an opportunity to meet with other grievers in a safe, caring, and supportive environment. The goal is to assist each other in the healing through grief process. Features weekly meetings and assignments.

Offered twice a year, usually in January and August, sessions are 13 weeks. The first two weeks are open to anyone, then the group is closed for the remaining weeks for those who wish to continue the process. It's best to attend all sessions, but one or two absences because of another commitment would be fine. 

For more information contact Maureen Gerecke at FREED 530-477-3333 or maureen@freed.org.

Jan-Apr 2024 group dates
WHAT: Healing through Loss and Grief group
WHEN: Thursday, Jan 18 through Thursday, Apr 11, 2024
TIME: 6:30 to 8:30pm
WHERE: Zoom Internet Vide… [read more]

The Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) is a law that allows family members, household members, and law enforcement to work with courts to temporarily remove guns and prevent the purchase of new guns by individuals who pose a significant risk of harm to themselves (including possible suicide) or others.

How to Get a GVRO
Family/Household
https://speakforsafety.org/obtain-a-gvro-family-household/

Law Enforcement
https://speakforsafety.org/obtain-a-gvro-law-enforcement/

The Speak for Safety website also has resources about GVROs: https://speakforsafety.org/resources/

A program of the California Wellness Foundation - https://www.calwellness.org/