Grief Support for Suicide Loss
If you have suffered a suicide loss, you are not alone. Our community is here to walk with you.
When you don’t know how to move forward, take the next step with support from the Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide (LOSS) community. Receive understanding and a caring and accepting community to walk with you following the devastating loss of your loved one to suicide.
Individual counseling, grief support, and pastoral care are available from experienced professionals through a program recognized as a national model for survivors of suicide loss. Learn more below.
Call (312) 655-7283 to talk to a specially trained professional.
Loving Outreach to Survivors of Suicide Program
-
Unavailable -
721 North La Salle Drive,
Chicago, Illinois 60654
If you have lost a loved one to suicide, you are welcome to join us.
Monthly group meetings: Drop in to a monthly in-person or online group as your schedule allows. For online groups, we request a brief telephone intake prior to attending.
Weekly group meetings: Join us for an eight-week support group, offered on a rolling basis. Readings and resources are provided. We ask that you commit to attend all eight sessions to build and maintain group cohesion. To join or learn more, contact (312) 655-7283 or email loss@catholiccharities.net
link
View our calendar of support groups and events:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=se3pn1sh3d8knm70htp2lqsl6o%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America%2FChicago
link
Visit the LOSS YouTube channel for more information and resources.
https://www.youtube.com/@lossprogram
link
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988 to connect with mental health professionals 24 hours/day. (Formerly known as the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.)
https://988lifeline.org/get-help/
link
For Survivors of Suicide: Alliance of Hope
https://allianceofhope.org/
link
For Suicide Prevention: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
https://afsp.org/
link
For Suicide Prevention: American Association of Suicidology
https://suicidology.org/
link
Sign up to receive the Obelisk newsletter.
https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/cuomUi0/obelisk
After our daughter took her life, I was utterly destroyed, non-functional. ... It's absolutely life-changing to witness someone go from that utter devastation ... to watching them reblossom. ... If I can offer that little, tiny glimmer of hope to someone, then I feel like our journey has been meaningful."
LOSS support group facilitator and survivor