Like so many others, our mother faced an uphill battle with mental illness. She was a smart, passionate, and fun woman who danced with us in the car, laughed with us at the park, and let us stay up late to watch Tales from the Crypt and Baywatch reruns. 

As the years passed, her struggles with mental illness were exacerbated by the stigma surrounding mental health treatment and the lack of available resources to treatments and programs that would have made a difference in her life, and the lives of countless others. 

Flowers will fade and food will be eaten, but your donation in her memory will live on to support the valuable and important work done to bring education, understanding, and help to those who have shared, and continue to experience, her struggles. 

If you are unable to donate, please consider volunteering in your local community in her honor.