b'|Suicide Prevention Workplan - Los Angleles|85|86 |Suicide Prevention Workplan - Los Angleles|87Just as no two grief experiences after a suicide death are the same, no one means of offering support after suicide will help everyone who may be impacted by the death. Postvention includes a range of strategies, from immediate response after a suicide death to ongoing support for loss survivors.Immediate Response After a Suicide Death Community Postvention PlansSupport is offered as soon as possible after a suicide bya team of responders that coordinate and facilitate a postvention response.LOSS Teams (consisting of peersThe impact of a suicide death can affect whole communities, and in some cases clinicians) accompany first responders at the scene of a suicideparticularly if the person who died was well-known or the death death, or to notify a family of the death. Support is provided to family members,happened in a public place. Having a postvention plan in place witnesses or others that are directly impacted by the deathHowever, postventionbefore a crisis occurs is the best way to ensure an effective, can be implemented at whatever point the postvention team learns of the death.The key element of a proactive postvention response is that loss survivors do notcoordinated postvention response. Postvention plans can be have to reach out for support, rather the support is made available to themconstructed at the community level, city or county level, and within immediately.schools, workplaces and correctional settings.Ongoing Support for Loss Survivors Ongoing support for loss survivors should be available at anyOn average, lossThe central component of aThe postvention team mobilizes time the individual is ready to reach out. Many suicide losspostvention plan is establishingsupport to those impacted by survivors benefit from connecting with others who havesurvivors receivinga core team of 2 to 4 individualsthe death, provides guidance to experienced a suicide loss, understand the experience, and can share strategies for coping and healing. Survivor Supportactive postventionthat will coordinate theentities that formally Programs offer a range of services and supports. The mostresponse. Establishingcommunication about the death, support reachedprocedures for notification ofsuch as a public statement, common are group meetings that are facilitated by survivors of suicide loss (peer support), or by mental health professionalsout for assistancepostvention team members of acondolence letter, or memorials who are experienced in counseling suicide bereavement andsuicide death, ideally within 24and monitors the impact of the may also be loss survivors themselves. Loss survivor supportwithin 39 days ofhours and directly from firstdeath through social media, groups can be ongoing and open to drop-in participants or follow a more defined six to eight-week curriculum. Expandingthe loss comparedresponders between firstnews media, and networking to support from in-person meetings to include educationalresponders (law enforcement,reduce the risk of contagion and to an average ofCoroner), promotes accuratemitigate negative websites, newsletters or emails, will broaden the reach to include those who are not able or interested in attending4.5 years inand timely information sharing toconsequences. meetings, or who do not have meetings in their area.ensure that support is provided passive models.as quickly and appropriately as Therapeutic Support for Loss SurvivorsCampbell, F. R. (n.d.).possible, and to contain Suicide Survivors as Firstpotentially damaging rumors and Some loss survivors will benefit from professional therapy asResponders: The LOSS Team. Retrieved frommisinformation.they navigate the intense grief and trauma that often follow awww.lossteam.com/loss to suicide. Since the complicated grief following a suicideLOSSteamOVERVIEW.pdf.loss is unique, therapy is best offered by clinicians that are trained or experienced in therapeutic modalities that are specific to suicide loss bereavement. Access to targeted, skilled therapy may help reduce the suicide risk by survivors of suicide loss.Draft 3.3.2020 Not For Distribution Draft 3.3.2020 Not For Distribution'