About us
Click “Read more” to see group times, locations, websites, and access notes at the end of this group description.
This Meetup is for people who personally know what it is like to live with suicidal thoughts, whether current or past. You do not need to be actively suicidal, and you do not need to share details.
Because this group is private, event descriptions and addresses may be hidden unless you join. Public group details are listed below. Click “Read more” to see group times, locations, websites, and access notes at the end of this group description.
You do not need to join this Meetup or RSVP to attend any listed peer support group. RSVPs are not used here. You can just show up.
About Alt2Su
While each group is managed independently, the groups listed here are based on the Alternatives to Suicide model developed by Wildflower Alliance. Alt2Su groups are peer-led, non-clinical spaces for people who have lived with suicidal thoughts to talk openly, honestly, and voluntarily with others who understand from lived experience.
For more detail about Alt2Su values and practices, read the Alternatives to Suicide Group Charter.
Who this is for
This network is specifically for people with personal lived experience of suicidality. That includes people whose suicidal thoughts are current, in the past, occasional, intense, quiet, chronic, connected to attempts, or hard to name.
People may also be struggling with self-harm, despair, isolation, trauma, grief, fear, anger, identity, relationships, or other experiences that are hard to talk about in ordinary spaces, but personal experience with suicidal thoughts is what makes someone a peer in these groups.
This Meetup is not for observers, students, researchers, providers attending professionally, or people whose only connection is supporting or grieving someone else.
Privacy, joining, and RSVPs
This Meetup group is private because suicide-related support should not require people to publicly display their name, profile, or attendance.
You do not need to join this Meetup group to attend any listed peer support group.
You do not need to RSVP on Meetup to attend any listed peer support group.
RSVPs are not used in this Meetup for peer support events. If a hosting organization ever offers a different kind of event that requires registration, that event should be advertised and managed separately by the hosting organization, not through this Meetup page.
Values
In these spaces, we try to honor these core values:
• People are the experts on their own experiences.
• Suicidal thoughts can have meaning, context, and history.
• Honest conversation can reduce isolation and shame.
• Support works best when it is voluntary, mutual, and non-coercive.
• We do not assume illness.
• We do not assess people for involuntary intervention.
• We do not call police or emergency services on people simply because they talk about suicide.
• We respect confidentiality and the privacy of everyone who attends.
Group details
Queer Alt2Su Peer Support — The Center on Colfax
This queer-only Alternatives to Suicide peer support group meets on the 1st and 3rd Mondays from 6:30–8:00 PM when The Center is open.
The Center may close for federal holidays or special events, including around Pride, so please check current updates when possible. The Center’s own website may not always show the correct time or schedule for this group.
Location:
The Center on Colfax
1301 E. Colfax Ave.
Denver, CO 80218
Denver LGBTQIA+ Alternatives to Suicide Website
LGBTQ Colorado: The Center on Colfax
Alt2Su Peer Support — Joy Hertz
Joy Hertz is a nonprofit created to support people around suicide and self-harm. The southeast Denver metro location is expected to host Alternatives to Suicide peer support groups on Thursdays from 6:30–8:00 PM beginning in June 2026.
Details are still being finalized, and this listing will be updated when Joy Hertz groups are officially scheduled.
Looking for support right now?
This Meetup page may not be monitored quickly or consistently. The best next step may be to attend the next available group, reach out to someone you trust, go to a place where you feel less alone, or use whatever support helps you stay connected and physically safer in this moment.
This network is here for connection, honesty, peer support, and helping people find rooms where they do not have to carry hard things alone.
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