b'among employees after a suicide death, promote healthy grieving, link those in need to resources, andhelp transition from suicide postvention to suicide prevention.Moving ForwardIn this SuicideTakingMemorialization Prevention andCollectiveSection Awareness ActionThis section provides information for long-term steps, including how to appropriately memorialize a death by suicide, and also key considerations for implementing suicide prevention programming and awareness initiatives, including recommendations for collective action.MemorializationEmployees may wish to memorialize a colleague who has died by suicide. It can be challenging to strikea balance between compassionately meeting the needs of grieving staff and appropriately memorializingthe person who died, without risking suicide contagion among other staff who may themselves be at risk,so careful attention should be paid to how the death is memorialized. In the event that some type of memorialization takes place, workplaces should strive to treat all deaths in the same way. Therefore, the same general approach for memorializing a staff member who died of cancer or ina car accident should be taken when memorializing a staff member who dies by suicide. In the aftermath of asuicide death in particular, it is important to memorialize the person in a way that does not inadvertently glamorize or romanticize either the person or their death. Wherever possible, workplaces should coordinate memorialization with the family in the interest of identifying a meaningful, safe approach to acknowledging the loss.Recommendations for safe memorialization can include:Holding a day of community service or creating a work-based community service program in honorof the deceased Putting together a team to participate in an awareness or fundraising event sponsored by one of the national mental health or suicide prevention organizations, or holding a fundraising event to supporta local crisis hotline or other suicide prevention program (in the same way that in the case of a death by cancer or heart disease, staff might participate in a fundraising event sponsored by one of the associated organizations for that particular illness) Sponsoring a mental health awareness day Raising funds to help the family cover their funeral expenses Making a book or notecards available for several weeks, in which employees can write messages to the family, share memories of the deceased, or offer condolences, that can then be presented to the familyon behalf of the workplace After A Suicide | Postvention Toolkit For Workplaces 10'