KyleCares Foundation News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . September 2021 |
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Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
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September is National Suicide Prevention Month. All month, mental health advocates, prevention organizations, survivors, allies, and community members unite to promote suicide prevention awareness.
By knowing the signs, asking questions, and helping connect others to support, each person plays an important role in preventing suicide.
To learn more about warning signs, prevention supports, and resources in the community, visit our partner site at the Samaritans below. |
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KyleCares Announces Keynote Speaker for KylePalooza 2021! |
Jon Mattleman, a mental health counselor, trainer, and highly-sought after presenter with 35+ years of experience working with children, teens, young adults, parents, and families, will be the Keynote Speaker at the KylePalooza fundraising event on November 27th at Lake Pearl in Wrentham, MA. Jon’s workshops and presentations, which have been described as engaging, warm, respectful, humorous, accessible, fun, energetic, and personal, provide participants with tools they can implement immediately, strategies that work with children and youth, and approaches which have
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proven to be critical to building healthy relationships.
You can read more about
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THANK YOU to the Millis High School Girls Soccer team for selecting KyleCares as their charity of choice as part of their 50/50 fundraiser! In just two weeks the girls raised $5,000 for their program and KyleCares – a phenomenal gesture on their part. Kudos to coach Olivia Zitoli for leading a program that produces not only winners on the field, but productive members of society off the field who give back to their community.
Good luck this season girls!!
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Madison & Matthew Kelley
The Kelley siblings of Norfolk, MA are leading the way to bring awareness to mental health and suicide prevention in a variety of ways at both the high school and college level. Madison is a sophomore at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and a graduate of King Philip Regional High School in Wrentham, MA where her brother Matthew is currently a junior.
Stunned by the tragic loss of their 28-year old cousin to suicide in August of 2019, Madison and Matt soon realized
the breadth and depth of mental illness all around them, and they set out to make a difference for students who might be dealing with mental health issues such as anxiety and depression.
With a steadfast goal and a lot of perseverance beginning in the spring of 2020, the Kelley siblings have worked tirelessly with King Philip School District Wellness Director Dorothy Pearl, school district leadership, Norfolk Police Sergeant Michelle Palladini, and others to advocate those in authority to print suicide prevention hotline phone and text lines on the back of all student ID cards at King Philip High School.
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focuses on 3 main objectives: Producing Knowledge (Research), Distributing Knowledge (Dissemination), and Using Knowledge (Practice). Established in 2007 and based at the University of Michigan and Boston University, the Healthy Minds Network (HMN)
is led by an interdisciplinary team of scholars from public health, education, medicine, psychology, and information sciences.
HMN generates and shares research on the mental health of young people, and is dedicated to improving the mental and emotional well-being of young people as they address the connection between the mental health of adolescents and young adults and their health behaviors, physical health, and social, educational, and economic outcomes.
The Healthy Minds Network’s annual web-based survey is one of the nation’s premier studies of college and university undergraduate and graduate students’ mental health. Since 2007 HMS has been fielded at about 400 colleges and universities, with over 550,000 survey respondents, and now it is available for high schools!
New this year, the Healthy Minds Study for Secondary Schools (HMS2) online survey aims to better
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understand factors that influence student mental health and well-being such as help-seeking and health behaviors, knowledge and attitudes about mental health, and social and emotional development of high school students nationwide.
HMN compiles the student survey answers and provides a detailed data report to each school describing the state of mental health at their school, and then as a point of comparison those results can be matched up to a national data report. These reports can help inform a school’s decisions to implement or modify mental health programs, policies, and resources to better serve their students.
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KylePalooza is just two months away! Sponsorship opportunities, raffle and/or auction items are still needed to help cover the event expenses and raise funding to allow us to continue our mission of helping schools!!!
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Special THANK YOU to our 2020/2021 Diamond Sponsors:
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PAUL & KARYN
STAUBI FAMILY
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ESTATE OF GEORGE
O. JOHNSON, JR.
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BILL & MELISSA
WAGNER FAMILY
FOUNDATION
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