The Emery County Sheriff’s Office is offering a Suicide Awareness workshop on Friday, September 29 at 10:00 am inside their training room at 1855 North Desbee Dove Road in Castle Dale. The workshop is an educational way for community members to end September, which is recognized as Suicide Awareness month.

The presentation will feature Area Director for Utah and Nevada, Taryn Aiken Hiatt, who was hired in June of 2017 at one of the nation’s largest suicide prevention organization, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She is a survivor of her own attempts, as well as, a survivor of suicide with the loss of her father in 2002. She is a certified safeTALK, Connect Postvention Trainer and Mental Health First Aid Trainer. She has taken her own personal story and desire to offer hope by educating communities about suicide prevention.

There has been a rise in suicide attempts and suicide nationally, but Carbon and Emery counties have had their fair share in recent years. As a community, we are being offered tools through this workshop to reduce the most tragic loss of life by suicide. We can all come together to address the underlying causes of suicide and develop strategies to reduce our numbers locally.

If you as an individual have contemplated suicide or know someone who has or have had a loved one that has died by suicide, please get involved and attend this informative event.

To learn more about American Foundation for Suicide Prevention visit their website at https://afsp.org/chapter/afsp-utah/

 

PHOTO COURTESY OF AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION