"Suicide Survivors: Those Left Behind" on the Discovery Channel

Dr. Frank Campbell, LivingWorks Coaching Trainer and Director of the Baton Rouge Crisis Intervention Center (BRCIC), will be featured in the documentary "Suicide Survivors: Those Left Behind" — one of the few stories the Discovery Channel chooses to present each year because of the social issue's great need to be examined. It will air on September 14th from 6pm–7pm EST and 5pm–6pm CDT. It is expected to be an international release. Contact your local Discovery Channel provider for times in other areas.

The program is enlightening, heart-warming and inspiring. Thanks in advance for helping get the word out, and please record it to share with family, friends, fellow students and others. We have hope that the powerful voice of survivors can change the postvention efforts in our world.

About the documentary

• Narrated by Mariette Hartley (author of Breaking the Silence, and well known presenter to AAS and AFSP audiences)
• Features highlights from the Out of Darkness event in Washington DC that was sponsored by AFSP
• Features several survivors that are regulars at the AAS conferences such as Paul and Judy Tunkle, Mark Wilson, Buddy and Betty Knox, Jim and Edith Moore (the current AAS survivors award winners), Kari Millet, Kitty Leming, and Frank Campbell
• Recognizes the BRCIC for developing a service known as Postvention
• All the survivors highlighted on the program have received help from BRCIC

About the BRCIC postvention service

• Literally whatever time of the day or night, BRCIC volunteers—most often survivors themselves—go to the scene of a suicide to be resources for the devastated loved ones of the deceased
• Postvention is coordinated with the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner's Office
• The volunteers (tagged the LOSS team for Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors), have proved invaluable in assisting those left behind
• The service reaches out to suicide survivors so they can begin receiving healing support within 40 days instead of the traditional approach. That approach averaged 4.5 years before survivors would begin searching for coping skills to heal the deep, still existent pain, confusion and unanswered questions.