As 2021 comes to an end, so does our time with our first SPARKING Change Youth Leadership Internship program cohort. We want to thank each of you who donated to our inaugural year, last year. At the end of 2020, we raised $42,000 for this new program, and every penny...
I did not know I was suffering. Like a fish that would never understand what water looks like, I had no idea that my experience of “normal” was poor mental health. It was an honest mistake; mental health issues are the main narrative of my family story. Alcoholism....
Since I was a little girl, some of the hardest times I can remember were holidays. Normally, you wouldn’t expect that from a child but on March 8th, 2002, my excitement for holidays came to an end. It was that day that my emotional development took an unexpected...
This topic is close to our hearts here at SPARK as several of us have been personally touched by suicide and the impact it leaves behind. For the past year we have been thoughtfully discussing the link between our SPARK youth mentoring programs and suicide...
When I first started my internship with the SPARK Initiative, I honestly could not have imagined how deeply this knowledge would impact my daily life. The awesome part about this curriculum is that it is not based on opinions, but rather, it is based on fact;...
In February of this year, we launched an internship program called the SPARKing Change Leadership program wherein we hired 10 interns to join the SPARK team on a 10-month immersive learning and growing endeavor where they have a chance to explore their innate...
