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Fall 2007

In 2007 the Mental Health Grant was awarded to the Center for the Advancement of Health for the program: "Men Get Depression Educational Outreach in Colorado". This program is being done in association with State of the Art, Inc., an Academy Award winning communications company who will provide outreach materials and activities to local (Colorado) community organizations.

The materials are to include a DVD on "Men Get Depression" a program to be aired on Rocky Mountain PBS. The film is to focus on college-age and working-age men.

Fall 2006

Due to our successful Fundraising at the Port Chester NY Auction in May and the Denver Benefit Day in July, we were able to award 2 grants in 2006 to worthy mental health programs.

Our 2006 grants were awarded to:


Regents of the University of California at Berkeley
The Regents of the University of California at Berkeley will develop a campaign called Look for the Signs, Too. This campaign is intended to increase the campus community’s understanding about mental health problems; encourage early identification of symptoms; improve publicity for mental health services; and reduce stigma for seeking help. This program includes public information and community mobilization activities targeted at UC Berkeley's 33,000 students, and 20,000 faculty and staff and dissemination of the campaign model to the broader University of California system. The Carson J Spencer Foundation grant will be used toward preparation of printing and production of materials to be used in this campaign.


CrisisLink
CrisisLink will develop a one-hour, multi-culturally sensitive depression awareness and suicide prevention workshop to be presented to a total of 80 staff and 1,500 residents of thirteen (13) housing communities for low and middle-income elderly individuals in the Washington, DC area. Seniors are at a particularly high risk for suicide. According to the American Association of Suicidology, the elderly make up 12.4% of the U.S. population, but account for almost 16.7% of all suicides. This initiative too stands to be a model for other elderly residential programs.

The Foundation is proud to be able to support these excellent programs.

 

Fall 2005

Our first grant was awarded to:
Second Wind Fund
Colorado
www.thesecondwindfund.org

The Second Wind Fund is a teen suicide prevention fund. When a school counselor deems a student at-risk for suicide and the student has inadequate mental health insurance, Second Wind pays licensed, private therapists, experts in working with teens at-risk for suicide and working at reduced rates, to provide emergency counseling services for the student.

They used our grant to expand their program into Adams County, the county where Carson lived with his family. This initiative was particularly meaningful to us because not only do they provide a unique and useful service to at-risk youth in Colorado, the help the un- and under-insured, a goal that Carson also shared.

At the 5th Annual Second Wind Fund Walk/Run/Ride, on Sunday, September 24th, a record-breaking crowd came in support of youth suicide prevention. With high but reflective spirits, approximately 1,900 people were on hand to witness a commemorative dove release, gather information about suicide prevention and mental health in general, and hear local leaders speak to the topic of suicide prevention.

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