Survivors of Sibling Suicide, Inc. 

Our Mission

Survivors of Sibling Suicide, Inc. exists to provide safe, compassionate, sibling centered support for people grieving the suicide loss of a brother or sister.

SOSS was born from lived experience, sacred grief, and the profound need for surviving siblings to know they are not alone.
 

Our mission is to provide peer support, connection, education, hope, and healing after sibling suicide loss by creating spaces where grief can be spoken, love can be honored, and sibling bonds can continue.

We seek to ensure that surviving siblings are seen, supported, and connected throughout a grief journey that has too often been overlooked, misunderstood, or left without adequate sibling specific support.
 

Our mission is deeply personal and profoundly simple:
 

One sibling at a time, so no sibling ever has to walk this journey of love and grief alone again.
 

What We Believe

We believe sibling grief deserves to be seen.
 

We believe healing happens in community.
 

We believe love does not end with death.
 

We believe every sibling deserves a place where their loss is understood without explanation.
 

We believe surviving siblings should not have to search endlessly for support that recognizes the unique relationship they lost.
 

We believe there is no timeline for grief and no single right way to remember, mourn, or continue loving a sibling who has died.
 

We believe grief has no borders or boundaries.
 

We believe support should be accessible across abilities, cultures, communities, geographic locations, faiths, backgrounds, and life experiences.
 

We believe every sibling should be welcomed exactly as they are.
 

We believe every sibling has the right to share their whole story.
 

Every detail.
 

Every emotion.
 

Every memory.
 

Every question.
 

Every fear.
 

Every moment of anger, love, guilt, regret, hope, sorrow, and longing.
 

Every breath they still hold sacredly for the brother or sister they love.
 

Nothing about their grief has to be edited, softened, shortened, or made easier for someone else to hear.

It is all welcome here.
 

What SOSS Provides

SOSS provides free peer support, connection, resources, remembrance, and community for surviving siblings through:

• Free recurring Zoom peer support meetings

• Private online sibling support communities

• One to one peer connection

• Specialized peer support spaces, including twin sibling suicide loss support and faith centered support

• Grief writing, remembrance, and continuing bond opportunities

• Suicide loss, grief, and mental health resources

• Family support opportunities and resources for those supporting grieving siblings

• Community outreach, education, and awareness

• Partnerships with organizations working in suicide prevention, postvention, mental health, grief support, and community wellbeing

• In person outreach at community events, suicide prevention walks, conferences, and resource fairs

• Educational gatherings, guest speakers, holiday support, remembrance opportunities, and other community programming
   

SOSS currently serves siblings across the United States and internationally.
 

Our community includes people from different countries, cultures, faiths, backgrounds, abilities, and walks of life who are connected by one profound shared experience: loving a sibling who died by suicide and learning how to carry that love forward.
 

While our current peer support meetings are offered in English, expanding language, cultural, geographic, and disability accessibility is an important part of our long term vision.
 

SOSS Teens Pilot

SOSS is preparing to launch a pilot support group in November 2026 for teens ages 13 to 17 who have lost a brother or sister to suicide.
 

The SOSS Teens pilot is being developed as an age appropriate, sibling centered space where younger surviving siblings can receive support, connection, remembrance opportunities, and compassionate understanding surrounding this unique form of loss.
 

The pilot will allow SOSS to learn from participation, feedback, emerging needs, and appropriate professional guidance before determining how teen sibling support can responsibly expand over time.
 

SOSS believes younger surviving siblings should not have to wait until adulthood to find support that recognizes the profound impact of losing a brother or sister to suicide.
 

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Accessibility

SOSS was created with a fundamental promise: no sibling or family member should ever be denied support because they cannot afford it.
 

Because a sibling who has lost their brother or sister to suicide has already paid enough.

SOSS will find the funding. We will never make grief the admission price for belonging.
 

All SOSS peer support programs, support communities, meetings, one to one peer connection, grief resources, teen and adult sibling support opportunities, and family support resources are provided without charge to the people we serve.
 

Our commitment to accessibility extends beyond financial access.
 

SOSS believes sibling suicide loss support should be increasingly accessible to people with disabilities and other accessibility needs, including Deaf and hard of hearing siblings, blind and low vision siblings, and people with physical, sensory, cognitive, communication, or other disabilities that may create barriers to participation.

We recognize that true inclusion requires more than simply saying everyone is welcome.

It requires listening.

It requires learning.

It requires identifying barriers.

It requires seeking appropriate expertise.
 

It requires continually improving how people are able to access and participate in support.
 

As SOSS grows, accessibility is an organizational objective.
 

We intend to pursue partnerships, technology, accommodations, accessible communication practices, and additional resources that can help more siblings participate meaningfully in our communities and programs.

Our international growth also requires us to think beyond English language support. While our current meetings are offered in English, expanding language and cultural accessibility is part of our long term vision.

This commitment shapes how SOSS approaches sustainability and growth.
 

Grants, sponsorships, charitable donations, community partnerships, philanthropic support, and other mission aligned funding allow us to build the infrastructure, outreach, technology, accommodations, resources, and programming necessary to reach more grieving siblings while reducing barriers to participation.
 

We believe funding should remove barriers to grief support, not create them.
 

Our goal is not simply to say that SOSS is inclusive.
 

Our goal is to continually do the work required to make belonging possible.
 

Our Vision for Growth

SOSS is building more than a support group.
 

We are building a scalable, sibling specific suicide loss support network designed to ensure that surviving siblings no longer remain the forgotten mourners.
 

What began as one sister searching for understanding has already grown into an international peer support community of more than 3,000 adult siblings.
 

Our vision is to expand access to sibling specific suicide loss support throughout the United States and internationally while thoughtfully developing programs for different ages, needs, abilities, cultures, and grief experiences.
 

Our growth strategy includes expanding adult peer support, developing specialized communities, strengthening one to one connection, responsibly developing support for younger siblings, growing referral pathways with suicide prevention, postvention, grief, mental health, school, and community organizations, expanding educational and grief resources, improving accessibility, and building the organizational infrastructure necessary to serve tens of thousands of siblings over time.
 

As SOSS grows, we want every surviving sibling to know that somewhere there is a community that understands this loss without requiring them to explain why the death of their brother or sister changed their life.
 

Our ultimate vision is a world in which sibling suicide loss is no longer overlooked, sibling grief is recognized as a distinct and significant bereavement experience, and no surviving sibling has to search alone for a place where they belong.
 

Our Promise From One Sibling to Another

At SOSS, we do not try to fix grief.

We sit beside it.

We honor the sibling who died.

We support the sibling who remains.

We create space for love, memory, pain, connection, faith, questions, anger, hope, and healing to coexist.

There is no expectation to move on.

There is no timeline for grief.
 

There is no requirement to make grief smaller, neater, or easier for someone else to understand.

At SOSS, you are welcome to bring your whole story.
 

The parts that are easy to speak.

The parts that are difficult to say aloud.

The memories that make you laugh.

The memories that break your heart.

The questions that may never have answers.

The emotions that change from one moment to the next.

The details you have carried silently.

The love you still hold.
 

The breath, memory, and connection you continue to carry sacredly for your sibling.

You do not have to censor your grief here.

You do not have to make your story more comfortable for anyone else.

You do not have to explain why something still hurts.

Your whole story is welcome here.

Every detail. Every emotion. Every memory. Every sacred breath of love you continue to carry.
 

It all matters.

It all belongs.

And it is all welcome here.
 

Whether a sibling comes to share their story, speak their sibling's name, ask questions, listen quietly, cry, remember, or simply sit among people who understand, they are welcome here.

Your grief matters.
 

Your sibling's life matters.

You matter.

Your love endures.
 

Together, we are creating a community where sacred grief can meet understanding, healing, remembrance, belonging, and hope.
 

You do not have to carry this alone.
 

Created by Love

SOSS was created out of one sister's enduring love for her beloved brother, Justin Christopher.

On April 12, 2021, Founder and Executive Director Noelle Cady lost her brother Justin to suicide.

In the days, weeks, and months that followed, she searched for support that spoke directly to the experience of losing a brother or sister to suicide.
 

She found meaningful resources for grief and suicide loss, but very little created specifically for siblings.

It was a lonely realization during the darkest season of her life.
 

That absence became impossible to ignore.
 

Out of heartbreak, love, and the belief that no sibling should have to walk this heartbreaking journey alone, Survivors of Sibling Suicide was born.
 

SOSS did not begin as a strategic plan or an organizational concept.
 

It began with one grieving sister searching for understanding and realizing that other siblings were searching too.
 

That belief remains the heartfelt foundation of SOSS today.
 

Every sibling who enters this community brings the story of someone deeply loved.

Their brother or sister is not reduced to the way they died.
 

Their life matters.

Their name matters.

Their memories matter.

Their relationship matters.

And the love that remains matters.
 

SOSS exists because sibling love does not end when a life ends.
 

We honor our brothers and sisters by speaking their names, sharing their stories, carrying their light, and walking beside one another through the sacred journey of love, loss, grief, healing, and transformation.

Even in loss.

Even in silence.

Even in the spaces where they are no longer physically beside us.

Love endures.
 

What began with one sister's love for Justin has become a community carried forward by thousands of siblings and the enduring love they hold for their own brothers and sisters.
 

We Are the Light Bearers

For generations, siblings grieving the death of a brother or sister have been called the forgotten mourners.

At SOSS, we are changing that story.
 

We are no longer the forgotten mourners.

We are the Light Bearers.

We carry the names of our brothers and sisters.

We carry their stories.

We carry their memories.

We carry their light.

We carry the love that death could never take from us.
 

And when another sibling cannot see the way forward through the darkness of grief, we help carry the light until they can see it again.
 

We are the Light Bearers, and we matter.
 

Our grief matters.

Our sibling's life matters.

Our stories matter.

Our voices matter.

Our love matters.
 

Together, one sibling at a time, we will work to ensure that no surviving sibling ever has to walk this journey of love and grief alone again.
 

We are no longer the forgotten mourners.
 

We are seen.

We are heard.

We are remembered.

We are the Light Bearers.

And we matter.
 

Where sacred grief meets a community of sibling support, healing, and hope.

Created by love. Siblings make it a community.