The What Remains Guidebook is designed to be a living document for organisations that may work with women with experience of perpetrator suicide. It will be updated as our learning develops. Each section leads on from the last, and we recommend that you work your way through each page, returning to i. What remains: a guidebook for organisations when completed.
“Perpetrator suicide” means the person who harmed or abused someone dies by suicide. This guidebook is about how suicide can be part of the harm and control they cause.
What Remains scaffolds a collective voice that has never spoken together before - gathering singular voices that, until now, have largely existed in silence.
Within this guidebook we will cover our framing, understanding perpetrator suicide as a form of coercive control, understanding the impact of perpetrator suicide on women and children, understanding how systems collude with harm, principles to support healing, reflections and closing thoughts.
It is suggested that you work through this guidebook with colleagues and peers from both inside and outside your organisation. This is because the act of perpetrator suicide impacts all areas of women’s lives, and as such, all areas should try to work together as much as possible to reduce the harm and risks it causes.
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