Partner:

Suicide Prevention Services

Period:

September 2013 – August 2016

Beneficiaries:

Those affected by suicide loss

Project BLESS helps survivors of suicide loss to cope with loss of their loved ones.  The project consists of a two-pronged approach – to assist survivors on their bereavement journey and to arouse public awareness on the needs of survivors.  Active postvention programmes, such as counselling, therapeutic activities, and mutual support groups, are carried out to empower survivors with the will to live on.



Suicide Prevention Services publishes brochures, posters, educational videos, and resource & healing booklets to promote its service to survivors and to inform the public of the difficulties faced by survivors.  Three educational videos were aired on Roadshow in August 2015 and subsequently uploaded to the Project BLESS website.  The resource & healing booklet was separated into two individual ones – the resource booklet focusing on tangible resources available to survivors and the healing booklet supporting them emotionally – and was reprinted in 2016 to include the newest information.









Project Feedback

The group sharing is so encouraging and helps me to release my grief. My guilt is lessened and I can accept my limitations on knowing very little about the depression of my son. …….Learning from other bereaved gives me encouragement to move on. Now, I am willing to deal with this challenge and I can find ways to release my emotions.

Feedback from service user, Mutual Support Group

The sharer training on companion support equips us to become a companion to support the suicide survivors. Through lectures and role plays, we understand more about the body-mind reactions of anxiety and depression after experience trauma. We also learn how to use our body sensations to observe in the present moments.

Feedback from service user, Sharing Training

My case worker shares with me the educational videos about the indifferent experience of suicide bereavement. I feel being understood when I watch the videos because I undergo the same bereavement process as the stories told.

Feedback from service user, Individual Counseling