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In the wake of eight suicides in the Manasquan community, Friends Helping Friends (FSF) was founded by students wishing to put a stop to the epidemic taking their friends from them. FHF, working with the network of community stakeholders that has been established in response to the current episode of suicide contagion, created a Teen Center. The Teen Center is a place where teenagers can gather and, in addition to having a place of their own, also have counseling services available. The Foundation’s grant money was used to complete several goals that FHF set for the Teen Center, including obtaining computers to allow for tutoring and after school programs and sponsoring free counseling sessions. For more information visit www.friendshelpingfriendsmhs.com.
Annual Grant
The Dave Nee Foundation provides a yearly grant to a deserving organization whose mission aligns with ours in serving to support those with depression and/or prevent suicide. Below you may review the past year’s recipients of the Annual Dave Nee Foundation grant; we applaud all their hard work in the various communities they serve.
We are now soliciting applications for our 2012 grant. To apply for this grant, please download the Grant Application. A PDF of the application can be found here. Once completed, please submit the application by email to Stephanie Arcella at [email protected] or mail it to the Dave Nee Foundation, P.O. Box 231487, New York, NY 10023. The deadline to submit applications for our 2012 grant is July 31, 2012.
Past Grant Recipients
Families for Depression Awareness is a national nonprofit organization that helps families and friends recognize and cope with depressive disorders to get people well and prevent suicides. The organization provides education, outreach, and advocacy to support families. Families for Depression Awareness is made up of families who have lost a family member to suicide or have watched a loved one suffer with depression, with little knowledge about how to help. For more information, visit www.familyaware.org.
In 2008, we provided a separate grant to the Emergency Mobile Crisis Services, a division of the Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut that, for over 20 years, has provided immediate mental health assessment and crisis stabilization services, with a special focus on suicide prevention, for children and adolescents experiencing serious psychiatric symptoms and severe reactions to traumatic events. For more information, visit www.childguidancect.org.
We provided a grant to SPAN USA, an organization dedicated to preventing suicide through public education and awareness, community action and federal, state and local grassroots advocacy. The grant is helping SPAN USA to raise awareness about College Campus Suicide Prevention on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites. The grant will also help SPAN USA to disseminate information about the funds available to college campuses for suicide prevention under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act (GLSMA). For more information, visit www.spanusa.org.
In 2007, we provided our annual grant to Active Minds, a not-for-profit peer-to-peer organization dedicated to the mental health of college students. Through this grant, Active Minds was able to open thirty new college chapters, start its first high school chapter, develop an internship program and start a new program entitled Send Silence Packing. As part of this program, on April 24, 2008, Active Minds displayed 1,100 backpacks on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., representing the 1,100 college students who die by suicide each year. This powerful display is traveling to different sites around the country. For more information, visit www.activeminds.org.
In 2006, we provided our inaugural grant to Columbia University’s Teenscreen Program, a national mental health and suicide risk screening program. Our grant permitted TeenScreen to expand its efforts to additional communities, resulting in the establishment of several local TeenScreen programs that then went on to screen thousands of teens. With the help of the Foundation, TeenScreen came ever closer to reaching its goal of making voluntary mental health check-ups available to all American teens. For more information, visit www.teenscreen.org.