Alliance of Hope for Suicide Loss Survivors
24/7 moderated community forum built specifically for people after a suicide loss.
Grief Support Suicide Loss
Support Groups for Suicide Loss Survivors
Suicide loss is grief with extra weight: the questions that can't be answered, the guilt that isn't earned but arrives anyway, the way conversations go quiet around the word. People in this grief often say general groups couldn't hold it — and that survivor-specific rooms were where they could finally say everything.
'Survivor' here means you: a suicide loss survivor is someone living after losing a person to suicide. The organizations below are run largely by survivors themselves, and every one of them can handle the whole story.
Verified Networks
Where the real support is
Every organization here is national, established, and built around this specific loss. Formats and costs are listed so you know before you click.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Healing Conversations peer program and a national directory of local survivor groups.
Friends for Survival
Peer support by and for suicide-loss survivors since 1983.
TAPS Suicide Loss Programs
Specialized suicide-loss care for military families.
Local & Verified
Dedicated local centers for this loss
Standout local organizations we’ve verified — each city guide has more, including every hospice grief program in that metro.
San Diego County Medical Examiner Bereavement Center
Free county program with The Elizabeth Hospice — licensed grief counseling and referrals for families after a sudden or traumatic death.
Cornerstone of Hope — Columbus
Structured 8–10 week grief groups led by trained facilitators — including spouse loss, loss of a child, suicide loss, and young-adult groups.
Care Dimensions
Grief groups, workshops, and counseling from Massachusetts' nonprofit hospice — children's programs plus suicide-, substance-, and pet-loss groups.
JF&CS — Bereavement Supports
Free non-sectarian peer bereavement groups led by trained facilitators, including partner loss, parent loss, and suicide-loss groups.
Before Your First Meeting
What these groups are actually like
Survivor groups are usually closed or semi-closed circles with a trained facilitator — very often a survivor — because this grief involves things (the questions, the finding, the anger at the person you love) that need a protected room. The Alliance of Hope forum is the 24/7 version: moderated around the clock, available at 3 a.m., which matters in this grief specifically.
Nobody in these rooms will ask you why it happened. Everyone in them knows the question doesn't have an answer, because they've been asking their own version for years.
Finding one near you: beyond the networks above, your local hospice is required to offer bereavement support and most run free community grief groups — call and ask for the bereavement coordinator. More on that here.
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One email with every network on this page, plus a short guide to choosing a group. No newsletter, no follow-ups — just the list, to read when you’re ready.
Questions
What families ask
I feel angry at the person I lost. Is that allowed in a group?
Not only allowed — expected. Anger at the person, alongside love for them, is one of the most universal experiences in suicide loss, and survivor groups treat it as normal grief, not disloyalty.
How do I find an in-person survivor group near me?
AFSP maintains the most complete national directory of local suicide-loss support groups — search it by state on afsp.org. Many hospices and community mental health centers also run survivor-specific groups.
What if I'm struggling myself?
Suicide loss raises a survivor's own risk, and taking that seriously is strength, not drama. If you're in crisis, call or text 988 (the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) now. Support groups are for grief; 988 and a counselor are for crisis — you're allowed to need both.
While You’re Here
Free tools, if they’d help
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