Crisis Lines, Books & Support Websites:

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~Phone Support & Crisis Hotlines

• First Candle offers 24/7 phone support in English and Spanish: 800.221.7437 lori@firstcandle.org
• COPEline offers phone support (leave a message if it’s after hours and a volunteer will call you back): 516.364.COPE (2673)
• National Council of Jewish Women free phone support (212) 687-5030 ext. 28 or at plsp@ncjwny.org
• US National Suicide Prevention Hotline offers 24/7 confidential support: 800.273.TALK
• Grassroots Crisis Hotline: 410.531.6677
• SIDS Hotline (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome):  800.232.SIDS (7437)
• Focus on the Family Christian counseling hotline and resources
• Canada Crisis Line: 888.322.3019
• Canada Suicide Prevention Hotline: 877.435.7170
• Finley’s Footprints offers Hope Coaching from the UK
• Samaritans.org offers Suicide Prevention support in UK/Ireland
• Befrienders offers crisis support and suicide prevention by country
• Germany has a Suicide Prevention program (and here’s another one)
• Australia offers a LifeLine
• Suicide prevention in Belgium
• Brazil offers suicide prevention support
• Crisis hotline support in Denmark
• Finland offers crisis support
• Suicide prevention in Hong Kong
• Israel has crisis support
• Suicide prevention in Netherlands
• Norway suicide prevention
• Crisis support in South Korea
• Taiwan suicide prevention

~Books

• The Invisible Pregnancy – Heidi Faith
• I Miss His Everything – Dawn Gilner
• All That is Seen and Unseen – Elizabeth Petrucelli
• Asleep in Heaven’s Nursery – Tommy Mann
• What Was Lost – Elise Erikson Barrett
• Grieving the Child I Never Knew – Kathe Wunnenburg
• Empty Arms – Sherokee Isle
• In Faithfulness, He Afflicted Me – Lynnette Kraft
• Still: Artwork and Writings – Stephanie Paige Cole
• Your Baby is Safe – Melissa Yuan-Innes MD
• Naming the Child – Jenny Schroedel
• When Hello Means Goodbye – Kirk & Schwiebert
• Beautiful Pain – Mary Welch
• Tear Soup – Schweibert, DeKlyen & Bills
• Sopa de Lagrimas (Tear Soup in Spanish)
• Couple Communication After a Baby Dies – Ilse & Nelson
• Heaven is For Real – Todd Burpo
• Parenthood Lost - Michael Burma MD
• A Bereaved Father – Steve Younis (mens grief)
• A Guide for Fathers – Tim Nelson (mens grief)
• Swallowed by a Snake – Thomas R. Golden (mens grief)
• Butterbean – Brandon Roberts PhD (mens grief)
• A Man You Know is Grieving – Thomas R. Golden (mens grief)
• Remembering Our Angels – Hannah Stone
• Sarah’s Laughter – books on infertility
• Navigating Land of If – Melissa Ford (on infertility)
• For Bereaved Grandparents – Margaret Gerner (grandparent grief)
• When a Grandchild Dies: What to Do, What to Say, How to Cope – Nadine Galinsky (grandparent’s grief)
• Grandma’s Tears – June Kolf (grandparent grief)
• I Will Carry You – Angie Smith
• Grief Unseen – book on cultivating art therapy through grief
• Carrying On  (workbook) – Darlene Viggiano
• Still to be Born – Pat Schwiebert
• Motherhood after Miscarriage – Dr. Kathleen Diamond
• Creating a Life – Corbin Lewars (on rape and loss)
• The Midwife and the Bereaved Family – Jane Warland
• Footprints on my Heart - Molly Remer MSW, ICCE, CCCE
• books for children gives a complete listing as well as additional support specifically for children through loss and grief

~Books for Children

• books for children gives a complete listing as well as additional support specifically for children through loss and grief

~Books on Strengthening Marriage

(these are ways to stay focused on keeping your marriage strong, and make great gifts from loved ones after infant loss)

• The Invisible Pregnancy
• The Love Dare
• The Husband Project
• The Respect Dare

~More Reading, Researching & Understanding Grief

• Resources for Fathers 
• Creativity through Grief
• Research on Grief
• Religious & cultural perspectives & resources

~Newsletters

• M.E.N.D. (Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death)
• U.T.P.A.I.L. (United through Pregnancy and Infant Loss)
• Still Standing online magazine

~Mentorship & Online Groups

• Stillbirthday offers a mentorship program.  Just click your state to view your mentors.
• Prenatal Partners for Life offers mentorship for adverse diagnosis
• Hope Wood is the owner of three websites (Hope in Bloom and Beautifully Broken and Grief Journeys) and the owner of several online public and private support groups at Facebook.  Contact her for her different ministries and how you can get involved.
• Hope Mommies offers prayer support
• Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope has a pen-pal program
• Initiative Regenbogen (Germany) is parents supporting parents through loss.

~Websites

• Visit our Emotional/Spiritual Health articles
• Sufficient Grace Ministries (shop, and blog with updated articles & information)
• M.E.N.D.
• Teen Mothers Together offers support tailored for teen mothers and fathers, including pregnancy loss
• UnSuicidal explains a phenomenon in grief
• Compassionate Friends has local resources in several countries
• Angel Babies Foundation offers counseling support in Australia
• SANDS – Australia offers resources and support
• SANDS – UK offers resources and support
• Live in Hope resources page
• Remembering Our Babies
• Faces of Loss, Faces of Hope
• Exhale online magazine for pregnancy loss and infertility
• Still Standing online magazine for pregnancy loss and infertility
• TTTS Day (twins)
• CLIMB (multiples)
• Schmetterlingskinder (Germany) support and information for pregnancy loss
• Feileacain (Ireland)
• Please visit our National Long Term Resource list for additional national organizations and groups resources.
• Please visit your state listing for additional long term resources and support.

Facebook (these are only a few of several groups/pages)

• M.E.N.D.
• Born Into Heaven
• October 15
• (for more, type in key search words at Facebook such as grieving, TTC, miscarriage, stillbirth, angel babies)

Other Online Forums

(typing in real time)

• Stillbirthday has a forum
• Grief Journeys (Stillbirthday highly supports Grief Journeys)
• Hope Mommies Christian forum
• Silent Grief
• Hope in Loss
• Pandora’s Aquarium (rape/pregnancy)
• Aphrodite Wounded (rape/pregnancy)
• Wise Woman University - Perinatal Loss Workshop

Specific to Countries/Regions outside of USA

• Towards Tomorrow Together provides butterfly boxes to hospitals and individuals, in addition to therapy support resources – UK
• Lyssa Clayton – homeopathy and flower essences for grief – lyssa.clayton@yahoo.co.uk – Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
• So Go and Run Free – offers memory boxes and additional support in the Highlands area, UK
• SiMBA – events and projects in the UK
• Schmetterlingskinder – online support and information for pregnancy loss – Germany
• Initiative Regenbogen – parents supporting parents through loss – Germany
• Feileacain – Ireland
• Angel Babies Foundation offers counseling support in Australia
• SANDS – Australia offers resources and support
• Compassionate Friends has local resources in several countries (just click your country)

Bereavement Diversity Books

• Bereavement Diversity Books & Other Keepsakes

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