Everyone experiences moments of crisis in life. You might be struggling with depression or substance abuse. Or maybe you’re overwhelmed by problems at work, feeling lonely, or having a conflict with a loved one. Call ReSolve Crisis Center of UPMC at 1-888-796-8226 or utilize the walk-in crisis center located at 333 North Braddock Ave.

The Trevor Project helps LGBTQ+ young people  connect with counselors and find answers, tools, and information.

If you are thinking about harming yourself the Trevor Project provides connection to a crisis counselor 24/7, 365 days a year, from anywhere in the U.S via text, chat, or phone. The Trevor Project is 100% confidential and 100% free.

Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support and a culturally-sensitive hotline for trans and queer people in crisis. 

Call BlackLine provides a space for peer support, counseling and reporting of mistreatment for those most likely to be impacted by systematic oppression, centering LGBTQ+ BIPOC people. BlackLine can provide immediate crisis counseling to those who are upset, need to talk with someone immediately, or are in distress after experiencing hate-based violence.

List that you can refine to find a hotline or warmline that fits your need.

Seeking support during the grieving process can help if you’re struggling to process your emotions. The JFCS Grief Support Group meets virtually biweekly. To learn more or sign up for access to this virtual group please call (412) 389-1417.

Click here to learn more and see dates.

UPMC offers a variety of Pittsburgh-based services, including local grief groups, Camp Good Grief, a one-day annual camp for children, and Growing Through Grief, a six-week educational and support program.  Click here to learn more.

A GriefShare support group is a 13-week group to provide peer support and education. Since there are no neat, orderly stages of grief, you’ll learn helpful ways of coping with grief, in all its unpredictability.

GriefShare is often a Christian and church-based program.

Click here to learn more and find local groups.

AHN holds grief support groups and provides Bereavement Coordinators who can help you to access bereavement support at home.

Click here to learn more.

Rabbi Dovid Small, JAA Director of Pastoral Care, facilitates a bereavement group that meets monthly both virtually and at the 10.27 Healing Partnership. Contact Rabbi Small at dsmall@jaapgh.org or 412-521-1685 to learn more.

The Center for Relational Change 
1789 S Braddock Ave 
Suite 350 
Pittsburgh, PA 15218 
Call Dr. Demarquis Clarke at (412) 419-2180 

Hope Alliance

Contact Jullian or Jessica at 412-965-2809

Second Tuesday of every month 6:30 pm (in-person)

Greater Valley Community Center, 300 Holland Ave, Braddock PA

The Highmark Caring Place provides support for children grieving the loss of a loved one through its various programs. The Caring Place provides peer support to children who have experienced the death of someone important in their lives, providing a safe place where grieving children and families can come together and be with others who understand what they’re going through. No insurance is necessary.

https://www.highmarkcaringplace.com/cp2/index.shtml  

STAR-Center offers Survivors of Suicide (SOS) bereavement support groups for adults who have lost a loved one or family member to death by suicide. 

Email survivorsofsuicide@upmc.edu or call 412-864-3346 to register for this group. 

Open to anyone over 18 years of age, and with any type of relationship to the deceased. The group meets in an 8-week session. A new group begins each fall, winter, and spring. 

Learn more at  https://www.starcenter.pitt.edu/clinical-services/survivors-suicide  

Find a local Support Group for loss due to suicide by visiting: https://afsp.org/find-a-support-group 

5:45 to 7pm on Thursdays 

Kachina Mooney, MA, ATR Steel Valley Wellness Group, LLC 
3212 Main Street Munhall, PA 15120 
412-368-3535 (Phone) www.steelvalleywellnessgroup.com 

Third Wednesday of every month 

5:30 to 7:00pm at 339 Old Haymaker Road, Suite 209, Monroeville Pa 15146. 

Please contact 412-495-7198

Online Support Group 

Learn more at: https://herrenproject.org/grief-support 

See list: https://www.ddap.pa.gov/Documents/Agency%20Publications/Overdose/Grief%20Supports%20List.pdf

See full list: https://www.highmark.com/content/dam/digital-marketing/en/highmark/highmarkdotcom/wholecare/wholecare-working-images/documents/pdfs/addiction-resource-center/pro-a-pa-sud-grief-support-groups-by-county-and-resoruces.pdf-new-logo.pdf

Whether your family has had a child die (at any age, from any cause) or you are trying to help those who have gone through this life altering experience, The Compassionate Friends exists to provide friendship, understanding, and hope to those going through the natural grieving process. Bereaved parents, siblings, and grandparents meet together to talk, listen, share, and provide each other emotional support after the devastating death of a child, grandchild, or sibling. 

https://www.compassionatefriends.org/ 

• Tips for Survivors of a Disaster or Other A tip sheet that covers signs and symptoms of re-traumatization, as well as how to know if you may benefit from more help and guidance on how to manage it. It also provides resources for support and ways you can build resilience.
• Tips for Survivors of a Traumatic Event
  • A tip sheet with information and resources on what to expect in your personal, family, work, and family life following a traumatic event.
• Twelve Self-help Tips for Coping in the Aftermath of the Attack on the U.S. Capitol
  • Brief “tip sheet” of things you can do, as well as some self-help resources you may find helpful.
• Managing Distress Grounding Tips for Crime Victims, Survivors and Family Members of Mass Violence Incidents (MVIs)
  • A guideline for Victims Survivors and Families of Mass Violence Events

Compendium of written resources to “help the helpers” who may experience compassion fatigue or vicarious trauma.

Office of Victims of Crime: Resource Compendium

• Preventing and Managing Stress Tips for Disaster Responders
  • This fact sheet provides tips to help disaster response workers prevent and manage stress while on assignment. It includes strategies to help responders prepare for their assignments, take stress-reducing precautions, and manage stress in the recovery phase.
• Tips for Families of Returning Disaster Responders: Adjusting to Life at Home
  • This fact sheet offers tips and strategies families can use to help disaster response workers return home and adjust to daily life. It describes things to keep in mind while adjusting to the return of a loved one, signs of stress, and when to seek help.
• A Guide to Managing Stress in Crisis Response Professions
  • This guide aids crisis response workers in stress prevention and management before, during, and after a public health crisis. It describes the stress cycle and common stress reactions while offering tips to promote a positive workplace and monitor and minimize stress.
• A Guide to Psychological First Aid (PFA)
  • The Psychological First Aid (PFA) Field Guide, developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, is an evidence-informed approach for assisting people in the immediate aftermath of disaster and terrorism. Available as a manual and an app, the goal is to reduce initial distress and foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning for adults, families and children.

Click here to view participants’ drawings, writing, and reflections on their experiences during the “Healing with Nature Mosaics Program.”

• Tips for Survivors: Coping with Grief After Community Violence
  • This fact sheet discusses tips on how to cope with grief after an incident of community violence. It introduces common signs of grief and anger and offers tips for helping children deal with grief.

• Tips for Survivors: Grief After Disaster or Trauma
  • This tip sheet contains information about grief, the grieving process, and what happens when the process is interrupted and complicated or traumatic grief occurs. It also offers tips and resources for coping with both types of grief.
• Tips for Health Care Practitioners and Responders: Helping Survivors Cope with Grief After a Disaster or Traumatic Event
  • A tip sheet offers health care practitioners and responders guidelines for communicating with survivors experiencing grief that includes background information about the grieving process and what happens when the grief process is interrupted and complicated or traumatic grief occurs.
• Understanding Compassion Fatigue
  • A tip sheet that provides information on the causes and signs of compassion fatigue (CF) and tips for how to prevent it from happening to you as a disaster behavioral response worker.

Telling Every Story: Building Narratives as a Community After Hate-based Mass Violence

This article by Maggie Feinstein, Executive Director of the 10.27 Healing Partnership, outlines how the 10.27 Healing Partnership has strived to build more diverse narratives within our programs, community initiatives, and activities related to Oct. 27th, such
as media, commemoration, and memorialization efforts.

Building Community Resiliency

This article, written by Executive Director Maggie Feinstein, outlines how, when we are experiencing a communal trauma, we can both “lean in” to give solidarity and support and “lean out” to receive it.

• Secondary Traumatic Stress
  • For the many of us who have been trying to help those in grief or who are going through a tough time, we too can have some of the traumatic effects.

• Talking to Children about Hate Crimes and Anti-Semitism
  • Children can experience strong reactions when learning about hate crimes, and they will often turn to trusted adults to ask questions and seek guidance. Here are some strategies for how to take on the role of that trusted adult.
• Parental Guidelines for Helping Youth after Mass Violence
  • Young people may deal traumatic events differently from adults. Here are some ways to be supportive and understanding of youth after a traumatic event, including strategies for adults to cope themselves.
• Talking to Children about the Shooting
  • Children experience sadness, grief, helplessness, anxiety, and anger as they process traumatic events. Here are some ways you can speak to children as they struggle with their thoughts and feelings about the stories and images of the traumatic events they may have seen.

• Coping with Death through Different Ages
  • Developmentally there are different tools that are more or less appropriate for different kids. This page helps us to understand this.

• Psychological Issues for Older Adults in Disasters
  • This publication is intended to provide disaster mental health and human service workers, service providers, program planners, administrators, as well as care givers, and older persons themselves with the tools and knowledge to appropriately respond to the needs of older adults in times of disaster.

• Anniversary Effect
  • As the annual date of a disaster or traumatic event approaches, many survivors report anxiety, anger, flashbacks, depression, or fear. Knowing what to expect in advance can sometimes be helpful. Review some common reactions among survivors of a disaster or traumatic event so you can be there for yourself and others.

• Best current mindfulness apps

Here is a list of some healing quotes.

You can view our videos on our YouTube channel.

Over Time, Creating Belonging

This article written by Executive Director Maggie Feinstein discusses how building belonging is critical in our post-communal trauma work.