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Sandy W.
Review for Alliance of Hope for Suicide Loss Survivors, Evanston, IL, USA
The Alliance of Hope for Survivors of Suicide has become much more than a life-line to me. The website provides powerful education as well as links to take me to valuable resources. Direction for counseling, reading, etc. The forum has provided me with more support than I dared to imagine possible. However, it does much more than provide support. I have found that reading and posting on the forum has allowed me expression of both my pain and my joy, for this journey of grief is complicated and multifaceted. I deeply appreciate that when Ronnie created this site she had a vision of helping survivors not only 'get through' their pain, but to allow them to see that a happy, even joyous life is possible again. This hope is offered by Ronnie and others who have also experienced losing a loved one to suicide and so I knew they had credibility. Their love and honesty has been a steady support for me as I have traveled these months since losing my son at only 23 years old. Thanks to the incredible support of these people I am honored to now call friends, when I think of my son now, there is much less pain. Much more joy. For me that is appropriate because to know my son, was to know joy. I am grateful that this site exists and hope that it will continue to be available as long as there is someone out there who has lost a loved one to suicide.
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Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2012
Review for Alliance of Hope for Suicide Loss Survivors, Evanston, IL, USA
I found this site and forum a month or so after my youngest son took his own life at the age of 23, December 2010.
I searched the internet to find support, but was sadly disappointed in what I found until I came upon Alliance of Hope for Suicide Survivors. I found great compassion and support in the information provided by the site. This site was very different from others in that it offered information from other survivors. There were articles written by professionals and lay people alike. Points of view from all walks of life were offered.
This site assured me that my journey through this experience would be unique and that there is nothing wrong with having a unique experience. To read that there are often steps through grief that may be expected, but that these were not written in stone provided me with assurance that I was not doing anything wrong in feeling 'different' than what I had been finding in books and on other sights.
The people on this site and forum have provided true compassion, support and understanding. This has been a healing place for me to visit, sometimes many times a day.
I am deeply grateful for having found this site and I have not hesitated to recommend it to others.
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I've personally experienced the results of this organization in...
The words of understanding, encouragement and compassion that I have read and breathed in have changed my life.
If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
I would perhaps keep the forum private.
How would you describe the help you got from this organization?
Life-changing
How likely are you to recommend this organization to a friend?
Definitely
How do you feel you were treated by this organization?
Very Well
How did you find this group?
Searching the internet.
What, if any, change in your life has this group encouraged?
Deeper compassion with those who need and deserve it as well as strengthening my ability to protect healthy boundaries.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2011
