Welcome to United Suicide Survivors International
United Suicide Survivors International is an independent global organization that serves as a home for people who have experienced suicide loss, suicide attempts and suicidal thoughts and feelings, and their friends and families – collectively known as people with lived experience with suicide – to leverage their expertise for large scale change.
We help people turn their pain into purpose
Our Mission & Vision
Our mission is to cultivate the lived expertise of suicide into action through leadership, collaboration and advocacy. We envision a world where lived expertise becomes the fulcrum that leverages all suicide prevention efforts. Our complete vision is to see a day when we are no longer needed.
Our Core Beliefs, Guiding Principles and Values
Convene - Standing Together for Change
Community - Building Networks of Action
Cultivate - Lifting Up the Voices of People with Lived Experience
Inclusion – True change requires diversity of thought and action.
Collaboration – Our work is about shared goals, not status or affiliation.
Courage – Willingness to proceed in spite of the fear and rejection by others.
Action – Recognition that awareness is meaningless without action.
Our Goals
Assist those with lived experience in the transition of discovering their role as change champions and advocates.
Support the implementation of lived experience international guidelines and best practice programs.
Leverage the voices of lived experience to advocate for policy, systems and cultural change.