Getting Help

If you feel you or someone else is at risk of suicide click here.

If you need to talk with someone click here.

If you, family/whaua, friend or colleague need help or information with depression, click here.

CASA maintains a network of health professionals experienced in providing support to those bereaved by suicide or affected by suicide attempt.

This Specialist Counselling Service (SCS) is funded by the Ministry of Health.  It is free and confidential, and offers the following support:

• Counselling for anyone affected by a suicide or suicide attempt - family/whanau including children, friends and associates
• Up to six sessions of free counselling
• Counselling provided in your home if you prefer
• Information on what to do after a suicide attempt
• Maori Cultural Service available including support by  Kaumatua and Kai Atawhai.

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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.

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