Happy Holidays from PRMS
As part of PRMS’ ongoing commitment to support mental healthcare and in the spirit of the season of giving, we are pleased to announce our annual holiday support of three organizations working to improve mental health and wellbeing in communities across the country and world this month – Child Mind Institute, World Central Kitchen, and The Trevor Project. Each organization recognizes the unique challenges faced by different members of society, from children and youths to those affected by war and natural disaster, and we are proud to highlight their missions this holiday season of giving.
Child Mind Institute
Nearly 1 in 5 children struggle from mental health or learning challenges, and around 70% of counties in the United States do not have a child and adolescent psychiatrist, according to the Child Mind Institute website. The Child Mind Institute recognizes the need for compassionate, personalized and evidence-based care among young people and is dedicated to advancing child and adolescent mental health, combatting the challenges that stigma, misinformation, and lack of access to care, create for children and their families through public education, research, clinical centers in San Francisco and New York City, and telemedicine support in certain states. Since its founding more than a decade ago, the organization has helped more than 15,300 children receive clinical care and has educated millions of families, all while leading a revolutionary approach to the science of the developing brain through its Scientific Research Council, an advisory team of the country’s top leaders from various academic institutions. To support and learn more about Child Mind Institute, visit www.childmind.org.
World Central Kitchen
Renowned chef, José Andrés, created World Central Kitchen (WCK) in 2010 to use food as a means of empowering communities and strengthening economies. Since then, Chef Andrés has grown the organization to do so in the wake of crisis and disaster, providing a warm plate of food to individuals in need everywhere from Puerto Rico to Australia to Lebanon, as described on WCK’s website. In 2020 in the midst of COVID-19, World Central Kitchen provided meals across the U.S. and the world to meet the daily needs of families in need and supported local restaurants forced to temporarily close due by employing workers and utilizing vacant kitchens. WCK also invests in the communities it supports through its Food Producer Network, helping to create food resilience for future disasters, and chef training in various countries to create career paths and boost tourism. Find out more about World Central Kitchen and support its efforts by visiting www.wck.org.
The Trevor Project
Founded in 1998, The Trevor Project was established by the creators of the 1995 Academy Award-winning short film, “TREVOR” to provide crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning young people in the United States under the age of 25 – a group of around 1.8 million individuals. Providing programs and services such as a 24/7 crisis intervention and suicide prevention lifeline, online chats, and text messaging services with trained volunteer counselors (who had over 263,000 communications in 2022), as well as suicide prevention trainings, workshops, and resources. The Trevor Project is also committed to research that brings knowledge and clinical implications to the field of suicidology through a two-pronged approach. The first approach is through partnership “with external research organizations (such as academic institutions) to carry out complex investigations that range from program evaluations to interventions,” and the second is by monitoring, analyzing, and evaluating “existing data collected from Trevor-served youth to produce insights into vulnerable populations, suicidal risk factors, and social factors influencing suicidal ideation and attempts.” To find out more about The Trevor Project, support the organization, and get involved, please visit www.thetrevorproject.org.
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