World Suicide Prevention Day 2024: Start the conversation
4th September 2024
World Suicide Prevention Day 2024: Start the conversation
World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 is on Tuesday 10th September. The event aims to raise…
Suicide Bereavement Services
Contact the Leeds Mind suicide bereavement services:
(Open Monday – Thursday 9am – 5pm, and Friday 9am – 4:30pm)
0113 305 5800 (Leeds Mind reception)
The Leeds Mind Suicide Bereavement Services offer a safe space to talk and get practical guidance.
We support:
- Families as a group, and people aged 11+ in Leeds and Kirklees
- People aged 11+ across Bradford, Calderdale, Craven and Wakefield
You can benefit from our support if you:
- Have lost anyone to suicide, such as: a friend, colleague or family member; someone you know professionally or an acquaintance
- Think someone ended their own life, even if an inquest has not been held or did not determine suicide as cause of death
- Have been affected by suicide but do not identify as bereaved, e.g. if you witnessed a death or were exposed to a death through work (e.g. as part of an emergency response team)
- Were affected by a suicide months, years or decades ago
Our Suicide Bereavement team. “We get it because we’ve been there.”
We offer Suicide Bereavement Support in Bradford, Calderdale, Craven, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield.
One-to-one
You’ll be assigned a suicide bereavement practitioner who has lived experience of loss by suicide. Through six one-hour sessions, you’ll have the space to talk and explore your feelings, as well as getting practical support. Support can be face-to-face, over the phone, on Zoom or via WhatsApp.
As a group
You might have experienced loss as a group of friends, or part of a community group. You can receive support as a group with a postvention practitioner, to help you talk to and support each other.
At work
If you lose a colleague, we can offer suicide bereavement support to a workplace. This can include group bereavement support, training, resources and signposting.
As a family
In Leeds and Kirklees, we offer whole family support. This means that a parent or carer can benefit from one-to-one support, and the whole family can have sessions as a group.
In Bradford, Calderdale, Craven and Wakefield, we can also help support the whole family more indirectly. Get in touch for details.
In school, college or uni
If an education institution (such as a school, college or university) experiences a loss by suicide, it can be helpful to offer support to students, staff and your wider community. We can offer group bereavement support and training to help staff manage the situation. We can also offer resources and signposting to more services.
Other support
Self support information – we always start with trusted and established resources, such as ‘Help is at Hand’, ‘Finding the words’ and ‘Is What I’m Feeling Normal?‘
Events and courses – See also our events programme and our latest courses listed below.
Our events
We hold monthly support groups (both online and face-to-face), as well as special, one-off events. Previous one-off events have included workshops to help you plan self-care around significant dates and anniversaries, and a family-friendly visit to the Donkey Sanctuary.
These events are for clients of the Suicide Bereavement Services. This is a great opportunity to be part of a community that understand because they have also experienced a loss through suicide.
Click below to see our calendar for October – December 2024.
How to access our Suicide Bereavement Support
If you’re interested in receiving support for yourself, please use the form linked on the button below. You can also call us or email if you’d like a chat about how the service works first.
We also take professional referrals (e.g. from doctors or other health professionals).
Latest news
All the latest news and opinion from the Leeds Mind Suicide Bereavement Services teams. You can find older stories here.
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Meet the team
Kiran, Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Bradford & Craven
Lisa, Senior Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Leeds
Megan, Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Kirklees
Thom, Suicide Bereavement Service Administrator
Deirdre, Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Leeds
Tasleem, Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Leeds
Elliot, Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Calderdale
Mia, Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Calderdale
Laura, Family Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Kirklees
Rachel, Senior Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Kirklees
Sophie, Suicide Bereavement Practitioner – Wakefield
About our services
The Leeds Mind Suicide Bereavement Services are made up of:
- Leeds Suicide Bereavement Service – Run by Leeds Mind and Leeds Survivor Led Crisis Service, with funding from Leeds City Council
- West Yorkshire Suicide Bereavement Service – NHS England has provided funding for a suicide bereavement service across West Yorkshire. The project is run by Leeds Mind and informed by the Leeds Suicide Bereavement Service.
