Thanks for visiting my page! Please help me to reach my goal and to support those people suffering with mental illness. Did you know that 1 in 5 people suffers with a mental illness? But only 1 in 20 of those who do suffer will seek treatment? We have to start the dialogue TODAY and I need your help. Let's get together and support those with mental illness the way we support a person with any other disease. Each year Carrier Clinic treats over 6,000 teens, adults, and older adults. People from all walks of life are treated at Carrier Clinic. Your gift will help us to help them.

This year we are raising funds for our East Mountain Youth Lodge. At the East Mountain Youth Lodge we understand that our residents are survivors not only of psychiatric, learning, and emotional difficulties, but often abuse, neglect, and violence as well. As such, they have developed coping strategies such as substance abuse, running away, defying rules and authority figures, even attempting suicide.

As part of our mission to create, promote and maintain a healing environment, we invite teens to put aside their past survival skills and learn new ways of coping and self-expression. We reinforce these newly-acquired skills with individual and group therapy, family education, therapeutic recreation, and day-to-day interactions with highly-trained staff.

The aim is to nurture emotional healing, provide social skill acquisition, and prepare our residents for a future in a less restrictive setting. Families are involved in each individual’s treatment from day one to ensure the opportunity to meet their four basic needs: Belonging, Mastery, Independence, and Generosity.

Please consider supporting in anymanner you can, the proceeds from this year’s Walk of Hope will benefit the Adolecent Courtyard Renovation. This will help provide our children a safe and healing recreational outdoor enviroment.

Making a donation is easy and safe! Simply click on the "DONATE NOW" button and follow the prompts. You will receive an immediate thank you note/receipt for your tax deductible donation to this great cause!

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