{"id":471,"date":"2018-12-23T20:18:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T20:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2019-05-24T20:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T20:23:51","slug":"sir-owen-glenn-donates-research-grant-to-rotorua-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/2018\/12\/sir-owen-glenn-donates-research-grant-to-rotorua-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Owen Glenn donates research grant to Rotorua woman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christmas has come early for some lucky New Zealanders thanks to donations by philanthropist and businessman, Sir Owen Glenn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rotorua local, and dedicated suicide prevention advocate, Suzy Taylor has received a research donation to help her find proven ways to reduce youth suicide rates in New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor has been working to raise awareness of youth suicide since she lost her daughter, Georgia, in 2016. This was not her first experience with suicide, first losing her husband in 1995 and then her best friend in 2001.<\/span><\/p>\n

To bring attention to the rising youth suicide rate, Taylor helped place 606 pairs of shoes along the Rotorua lakefront, each representing a young life lost to suicide in New Zealand every year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Taylor was now looking to visit leading experts and those with lived experience abroad, and was planning a research trip to Iceland and Scandinavia where the suicide rate was the lowest in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

With Sir Owen’s support, Taylor believed her research would help save lives in New Zealand. \u00a0 (read more)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas has come early for some lucky New Zealanders thanks to donations by philanthropist and businessman, Sir Owen Glenn. Rotorua local, and dedicated suicide prevention advocate, Suzy Taylor has received a research donation to help her find proven ways to reduce youth suicide rates in New Zealand. Taylor has been working to raise awareness of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sirowenglenn.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}