{"id":92672,"date":"2019-08-05T19:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suicide-survivor-will-help-others-learn-to-tell-their-story\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T19:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T19:19:17","slug":"suicide-survivor-will-help-others-learn-to-tell-their-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/suicide-survivor-will-help-others-learn-to-tell-their-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide survivor will help others learn to tell their story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sharing the story of surviving a suicide attempt or losing a loved one to suicide can help bring others hope and healing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be this scary, unspoken taboo,\u201d said Emma Harmon, a suicide-attempt survivor and Durango resident.<\/p>\n<p>Harmon attempted to take her own life in 2014 and at first was ashamed to talk about it. But since then, she has used her story to share messages of hope.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the more you talk about it, it makes it more of a conversation. \u2026 It doesn\u2019t seem so big and scary,\u201d said Harmon, who now works for the health department, but not in suicide prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, San Juan Basin Public Health will hold a training for those who would like to learn how to share their experience with suicide and help prevent deaths by suicide across the community, said Laura Warner, the agency\u2019s deputy director of operations.<\/p>\n<p>By training more residents to talk about their experiences, the health department hopes to spread positive messages, Warner said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelp is available, and it\u2019s possible to heal and move on from suicidal thoughts,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The training can help suicide survivors feel more comfortable talking about it in one-on-one settings or with larger groups, Warner said.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=049a1d75-8758-4631-ad04-f4c1254d0e41&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2002\" alt=\"Harris\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Harris<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Leah Harris, a writer, activist, and suicide attempt survivor, will lead the training.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, she won the Paul G. Quinnett Lived Experience Writing Contest and her work is included in the recently released anthology, \u201cWe\u2019ve Been Too Patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also works as a trainer and curriculum developer with the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors and she is a faculty member with Zero Suicide Initiative, created to provide safer care in hospital settings.<\/p>\n<p>The training will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Durango Community Recreation Center in the Sunlight Room, 2700 Main Ave. The training is free.<\/p>\n<p>Participants will not be expected to talk about their personal experiences.<\/p>\n<p>To RSVP, contact Kate Jones at <a href=\"mailto:kjones@sjbpublichealth.org\">kjones@sjbpublichealth.org<\/a> or 335-2084.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:mshinn@durangoherald.com\">mshinn@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basin Public Health to hold training to spread message of hope<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5843,5844,5847,6168,6169,6170],"tags":[29,668,686,3796],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-92672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living","category-living-living","category-newsletter-living","category-public-health-living","category-san-juan-basin-health-department","category-suicide-prevention-living","tag-newsletter","tag-public-health","tag-san-juan-basin-health-department","tag-suicide-prevention"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92672"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=92672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}