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Support groups

Bereaved Families of Ontario
Bereaved Families of Ontario provides mutual support programs and services for people dealing with the death of a loved one, and offers many online grief resources.
Coping Centre
The Coping Centre in Cambridge, Ontario offers in-person programs and online resources which offer help and encouragement for those experiencing grief and loss.

Websites

Here to Help: Fact Sheets
Fact sheets on Suicide and What is suicide? provide information and advice for those in crisis and their families, friends and coworkers.
Mind Your Mind: Grief
Information and support for young adults who are experiencing grief

Videos

Understanding and Preventing Suicide presents stories from three suicide survivors to describe the risk factors and warning signs of suicide. It offers guidelines from experts in suicide prevention and treatment for getting troubled loved ones to professional help.

Understanding and Coping with Grief explores the nature and function of grief and bereavement as an inescapable part of the human condition and describes some ways of coping with it.

In the last half-century, suicide rates have increased nearly 60% worldwide. Suicide Examined investigates ways to think about this stigmatized subject. This film considers what great philosophers and holy books say about suicide, and consider the numerous factors that sometimes compel people to take their own lives.

eBooks

The Wilderness of Grief by Wolfelt, A.D.
Publication Date: 2007
Written by a renowned expert, this book provides a 10-touchstone method for grief therapy which supports people through the grieving process.
Courage by Wolfelt, A.D.
Publication Date: 2012
Written for those times in grief when the strength to do the hard and necessary work of mourning is waning, this book contains inspiring words about finding the courage deep within to embrace the pain and go on living. Presented in a one-reading-a-day-for-a-month format, it features compassionate writings by grief educator Dr. Alan Wolfelt, as well as quotes on courage from some of the world's greatest thinkers.
Companioning the Bereaved by Wolfelt, A.D.
Publication Date: 2005
Wolfelt presents an approach which argues that grief need no longer be defined, diagnosed, and treated as an illness but rather should be an acknowledgement of an event that forever changes a person's worldview. Through careful listening and observation, the caregiver learns to support mourners and help them help themselves heal.

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