Tabitha Slater's son Marshall died two years ago from a suicide at the age of 21.
"If it wasn't for my son, I would have never ever thought to do something like this," Slater said.
That something was NARCAN training. NARCAN is a brand of naloxone, which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.
"It doesn't matter who you are, I don't want you to die," said Slater, who's the Gansevoort Fire Commissioner.
A month after receiving her online NARCAN certification, Slater's training was needed after hearing nearby screams in Gansevoort.
"Grab the NARCAN and I just ran," Slater recalled. "I got to the person and he was just done."
A person, around the same age of Slater's late son, was suffering from an overdose. She quickly jumped into action and administered NARCAN -- saving their life.
"Even some of the people at the firehouse didn't realize that we can do this," Slater said. "Like we can get our community trained to help each other. Which is so, so cool because how many times you see something and you want to help and you just kind of stand there like, I don't know what to do."
Now, more community members do know what to do. Earlier this month, Slater organized a drive-thru NARCAN training event at the Gansevoort fire department. 96 NARCAN kits were handed out. With more people like Slater trained, more children will have a chance to be saved.
"Not wanting to see another mother go thru what I'm going thru and the pain I have to go thru every day."
Slater is hoping her community hosts another NARCAN training and expects the turnout to be even bigger. She says training only takes 5-10 minutes.