While a suicide has a distressing impact upon those directly bereaved, it also affects others in the wider community - neighbours, schoolmates, colleagues, etc.
On occasion, glorification of the person who died, sensationalisation of their death, imitation and the presence of a highly charged emotional environmen may influence others in the community to attempt or complete suicide. This is referred to as "suicide contagion".
CASA provides the Community Postvention Response Service (CPRS) to help communities address and manage suspected or confirmed suicide contagion. The considerable skills and experience of its nationwide team of psychologist, nurses, social workers and cultural advisors in suicide prevention and suicide postvention combined with a sophisticated telcommunications and information technology enables CASA to assist communities through this most difficult of circumstances.
Learn more about the Community Postvention Response Service.