In the five-minute video below, Ken Norton goes a long way toward de-mystifying a difficult term, postvention, that is used exclusively in the suicide prevention world: It is a term that is somewhat confusing to everyone. Ken is one of the founders of the Connect program (see Connect's Postvention Training), and he is now the Executive Director of NAMI New Hampshire.
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Another helpful explanation of postvention is included in "Responding to Grief, Trauma, and Distress After a Suicide: National Guidelines." The guidelines will be released in mid-April by the Survivors of Suicide Loss Task Force of the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, and there will be a number of future blog posts about them. Here is a draft version of the explanation being developed for the guidelines:
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