Peer Support After Suicide – Open to Hope talks with Franklin Cook and Eric Marcus

Here Franklin Cook and Eric Marcus talk about losing their fathers to suicide, the small circle of peer support professionals, and why they have been engaged in this work.

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Lived Experience Visits the White House

See the full White House Event panel on Lived Experience including Lived Experience Academy Faculty Dr. DeQuincy Lezine and Heidi Bryan.

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How Men Grieve After Death of Brother or Father – with Franklin Cook

Franklin Cook, with Eric Marcus and Jim Giaccone talk with the Open to Hope program about the male experience of loss and grief.

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United Suicide Survivors International

United Suicide Survivors International is an upcoming group operating by and for people with lived experience that aims to: serve as a home for people who have experienced suicide loss, suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts and feelings, and their friends and families — collectively known as people w/ lived experience with suicide – to leverage […]

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Suicide Loss Survivors and Personal Grief Coaching with Franklin Cook

Franklin Cook talks about compassionate responses after a suicide loss, and also covers questions about why someone died by suicide as a special circumstance with suicide loss. He also talks about the importance of peer supports and being a personal grief coach.

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Self disclosure and Stigma – Heidi Bryan at AAS 2013

Providing both strength and hope, Heidi Bryan speaks about her experiences as an attempt survivor, loss survivor, and suicide prevention advocate with David Covington at the AAS Conference in 2013:

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