Charity Spotlight: The Hope For Us Network
The Hope For Us Network is pioneering Proactive Suicide Prevention through innovative mental health education and outreach.
We utilize events like the Stream For Hope Cup to raise funds to underwrite our direct education programming. This work aims to empower individuals and communities to become proactive on mental health care disrupting the highest risk factors for harm from mental health crises and suicide.
Our public fundraising efforts aim to create the budgeting ability to offer direct education to the public at ZERO cost to the hosting space. This way, we can ensure the lowest barriers to critical tools and resources to support mental health.
The Hope For Us Network is a diverse coalition of lived experience advocates, educators, clinicians, and professionals who came together because we mutually recognized that underserved mental health care is a public health crisis.
For generations, harm from underserved mental health has been a nearly silent public crisis. This silence results from the culture of concealment that has shaped how we approach mental health as individuals, among our community spaces, and within institutions.
Mental health has no prejudice. The World Health Organization indicates that more than 700,000 people die by suicide each year. The CDC tracks that more than 47,000 people die by suicide each year in America.
Presently, rates of illness, injury, and harm are not only persisting but surging and accelerating. In America, suicide rates have reached a staggering 35-year high.
According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, nearly 130 people die of Suicide each day as of 2021. That number is UP from 121 persons per day in 2016.
Together WE Can Halt this accelerating pace. We can drive back and reduce the rates of harm!
Successful intervention in this public health crisis begins with declaring a demarcation — to define this moment where we make peace with the past and commit our energies and passions to a new course of action.
The Hope For Us Network realized that existing tools, while needed, are reactive and continually only offer an incremental impact. Tools like Lifeline, hospitalization, and training like Mental Health First AID, Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR) focus on persons reaching a crisis point.
This reactive posture is due to the culture of concealment that shapes how we engage mental health personally, socially, and institutionally. Current tools are reactive because the primary way people identify as needing mental health support is by hiding their experiences until their mental health challenges disrupt their quality of life so intensively that they cant hide their challenges anymore.
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Our communities need dramatic transformational change to reduce harm and halt the acceleration.
That was the origin of the Proactive Prevention Plan, a first-of-its-kind solution to reduce rates of harm by disrupting the highest risk factors for mental health crises.
Our content addresses the massive scope of deficiencies in mental health care that are systemic and embedded across a vast web of interconnected intersections of cultures, communities, and institutions.
The primary goal of becoming Proactive is to close the gap between the onset of symptoms and intervention with treatment and support.
Together we realize this goal. Providing education to just one person gives them the tools to become proactive and enables them to be powerful peer-to-peer supporters.
One person educated in proactive prevention can positively impact at least 25 others in their community by destigmatizing initial mental health conversations and being a bridge to support.
If we can provide our proactive prevention education to 240 individuals, they represent a potential impact on nearly 6000 lives.
Since 2016, Proactive Prevention education has been delivered to more than 100,000 individuals across the globe by Network team members. That reflects nearly two and half million lives impacted. With your support, we can continue expanding our direct education delivery and build the Network of Proactive Prevention surrogates!
TOGETHER WE CAN BUILD A NETWORK FOR CHANGE
TOGETHER WE CAN BECOME PROACTIVE IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE
TOGETHER WE CAN DISRUPT THE HIGHEST RISK FACTORS FOR MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
TOGETHER THERE IS HOPE FOR US
Written By:
Carl J. Evans
Founder/CEO
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