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Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Group

Suicide Loss Survivor Grief Support Group

Monthly grief support groups provide a safe space for healing and connection for those who have lost someone to suicide. Facilitated by trained volunteers with lived experience, these groups offer understanding and resources for navigating the complex grief of suicide loss.

Meets:

  • Fourth Wednesday of each month, 6:30-8:00 PM
  • Location: NAMI Chester County Office, 317 Exton Commons, Exton, PA 19341
  • No cost to attend
  • Groups are not intended as mental health treatment but as peer support
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Impact:

Decrease suicide through increased awareness and education in the community. CCSPP collaborates with our partners to develop suicide prevention strategies and works to reduce the risk, stigma, and occurrence of suicide.

Support Group Facilitators

This group is facilitated by trained volunteers, most of whom have experienced their own losses to suicide and is not intended to be mental health treatment.

Chelsea Kunkel

Chelsea Kunkel is the Coordinator of the Chester County ACEs Coalition, where she leads countywide efforts to increase awareness of trauma, resilience, and prevention. She co-developed and co-presents the Connections: Trauma & Suicide training and has served as a co-facilitator of the Chester County Suicide Loss Survivor Support Group since its inception in January 2024. After losing her father to suicide in 2019, Chelsea became passionate about supporting others through their grief journey and is committed to creating compassionate spaces for healing, connection, and hope.

Sara Linderman

I lost my brother, Anthony in 2016 and he was 36 years old at the time. It was the most profound loss that I had experienced. A lot of times I felt like people didn’t know how to just ” be” around me anymore. It was key to find a safe space to talk to people who are walking with this same level of grief. After a few years of consistently going to a survivor of suicide loss groups, I found the comfort in making new friends, talking about suicide, honoring Anthiony and the trauma that came with his death. Now that 10 years have passed, I am reaching a point in my journey that feels like it’s time to give back to new loss survivors and try to grieve and “be” with them. That is why I became a facilitator for these Survivors of Suicide Loss Groups in my area, and my only goal is help someone leave a little more connected, lighter, and not feelings they have to carry it all alone.