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Suicide prevention is very personal to me \u2013 one of the reasons I chose this path is that I want to make sure that help is accessible, and it\u2019s something that people are not afraid to talk about.<\/strong><\/p>\n I grew up in extreme poverty \u2013 my brothers and I all struggled with our own mental health and substance use issues, and loss was a very prominent part of my upbringing. I saw how our health was impacted by these larger cultural systems and not just our individual choices.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve always had a sense that what we see on the surface is just that \u2013 it\u2019s only the surface, and that we all have things going on inside that we don\u2019t show to everybody. I wanted to understand more.<\/strong><\/p>\n After my graduate work in Marriage and Family Therapy, I became a volunteer at Lines for Life. I completed Mental Health First Aid training and ASIST training, which gave me so many skills to work with people in mental health crisis and people who are thinking about suicide. I started working professionally as a call counselor and became an ASIST instructor \u2013 teaching others the skills to help someone in a suicidal crisis.<\/p>\n Now, as the Director of Clinical Training at Lines for Life, I get the opportunity to share that knowledge exponentially, with every call counselor and volunteer on our team.<\/strong><\/p>\n We provide 200 hours of training for our incoming crisis lines staff \u2013 three weeks of classroom training and two weeks of experiential training, and we are all constantly learning more.<\/p>\n I particularly enjoy bringing in guest speakers to continue learning about ways to connect across culture and experience, and to better support people with specific identities on our helplines. I will never have the same experience as every person who calls \u2013 but being able to connect about the emotion or the feeling they are having is where a lot of healing can happen.<\/p>\n Many of the call counselors \u2013 like me \u2013 have personal experience and an added layer of understanding that comes from struggling ourselves or knowing someone who has struggled with suicide.<\/strong><\/p>\n If you\u2019re struggling \u2013 it can help a lot to reach out and talk with one of us.<\/p>\n Colleen, Director of Clinical Training<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Suicide prevention is very personal to me \u2013 one of the reasons I chose this path is that I want to make sure that help is accessible, and it\u2019s something […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-you-call-we-answer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.linesforlife.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4313"}],"curies":[{"name":"\u00a1Buen juego!","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}