Spes is a nationwide non-profit organization that is politically and religiously unaffiliated and is for everyone who has lost a family member, relative, partner, or good friend through suicide. Everyone active in Spes has lost someone close through suicide. Spes is an abbreviation for the National Association for Suicide Prevention and Survivor Support and means hope in Latin.
We offer support and help to survivors. We train contact persons, have a support line and chat for survivors and offer meetings and self-help groups for survivors.
Spes also has youth activities in various parts of the country.
On Facebook, we have a closed group where survivors can support each other in a safe environment.
Our members receive our magazine Forget-me-not four times a year.
Spes was founded in 1987 and since then we have raised the issue of suicide in the media and informed politicians and decision-makers about how suicide can be prevented.
