Useful resources

This guide offers helpful tips to make informed decisions about managing media interest.

This guide helps you understand flashbacks better and outlines way to manage them. 

This guide gives advice on how to tell children and young people, questions that might get asked and common reactions.

This resource hosted on the Le Va website is based on the voices of families and communities involved in the 'Suicide Postvention: Support for Pacific Communities' Waka Hauora funded project.

A resource produced by Australian organisation Conversations Matter, that provides some basic tips for talking with a child about a suicide. It is designed specifically for parents or primary caregivers but the information may be useful for other adults.

Designed by the Australian Support After Suicide Loss Standby Program. This journal is for children under 12 with activities to help children identify their feelings.

Designed by the Australia Support After Suicide loss Standby Program. This journal is an outlet for teenagers to express their grief, identify their feelings and to identify support and coping options.

Advice produced by Australian mental health charity Orygen, as part of their #chatsafe campaign safely talking online about someone you know, or a public figure who had died by suicide. Advice on how to look after yourself and your friends when you have these conversations.