LOSS Team Program
LOSS Team Mission Statement
To instill hope for healing in Survivors of Suicide through resources, guidance, and connections from compassionate community members and those who have experienced a suicide loss.
What We Do
LOSS (Local Outreach for Survivors of Suicide) Team is a response program designed to assist family members, friends, and loved ones (referred to as “Survivors of Suicide” or “SOS”) of people who have died by suicide. The program utilizes a postvention method to help SOS make connections and find community resources as close to the time of their loss as possible. The program consists of mental health professionals as well as community members who have experienced suicide loss themselves. All contact is made in a safe, comforting, and confidential manner to instill hope for healing to our SOS community members.
Contact Jennifer Potter, LOSS Team Coordinator at (806) 342-2549 or JPotter@fss-ama.org for more information.
Where can I find resources for Suicide Prevention and Grief & Loss?
- Local Organizations:
- Grief Peer-Support Groups:
- Scene Clean Up and Restoration:
- Online Grief Support Resources:
- Suicide and Mental Health Support Hotlines:
- Family Support Services (806) 342-2500
- Texas Panhandle Centers (806) 337-1000
- Toll-Free Hotline 800-692-4039
- BSA Hospice of the Southwest (806) 356-0026
- Grief Support Groups
- Online services including educational videos, articles, and current grief support activities
- Crisis Intervention Team through Amarillo Police
Department: referrals for local mental health programs and wellness checks - The Hope & Healing Place: Programs
- Amarillo VA Health Care System
- Nathan Bradley 806-355-9703 ext. 7537
- Hope and Healing Place (806) 371-8998
- Survivors of Loss Peer Support Group
- Family Bereavement Groups
- Wesley Community Center (806) 372-7960
- “La Esperanza” – Spanish Grief Support
- Group Bereaved Parents of Amarillo: Peer Support Groups for parents,
grandparents, and siblings who have lost a child, grandchild, or
brother/sister. Contact Greg Tucker, 806-341-8641, gtuck777@gmail.com - Grief Share Peer Support Groups: Bereavement groups at local churches:
- St. Paul United Methodist Church (806) 352-5615
- St. Mary’s Catholic Cathedral (806) 376-7204
- Hillside Christian Church (806) 679-2929
- Paramount Baptist Church (806) 355-3396
- Suicide Grievers “SOS” Support Group (806) 342-2549
- ServPro: 24/7 service, 806-331-4555
- ACT Remediation Services: 24/7 service, 1-888-477-0015
- PuroClean Services: 806-318-9700
- Also provides Hoarding cleaning services
- Chad House Construction and Remodeling: (806) 382-7090
- Carpet Tech: carpettech.com/
amarillo/ (806)-331-5142
- Suicide, Finding Hope: articles about suicide, grief, resources, as well as an SOS blog for questions or testimonies.
- Loss Community Services: GriefWords Library: books and articles about grief and loss
- LOSS Team Postvention Training: Dr. Frank Campbell and Associates’ website regarding LOSS Team
- American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: Get Help
- What’s Your Grief: grief support for grievers, supportive grievers, and professionals through articles and blogs
- Heal Grief: website for national and local grief resources, child and teen camps, and virtual support chat rooms
- Actively Moving Forward (AMF) App: online platform for young, grieving teens
and adults
- Actively Moving Forward (AMF) App: online platform for young, grieving teens
- Facebook Support Groups:
- “Mothers of Suicide”
- “Mothers Grieving Suicide”
- “Mothers of Suicide”
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
- Crisis Text Line
- Text “Home” to 741741 to connect to a trained Crisis Counselor
- Military Veterans Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-TALK 8255 (Press 1) Suicide
- Hotline in Spanish: 1-800-273-TALK 8255 (Press 2)
- LGBT Youth Suicide Hotline:
