While it hasn’t always been this way, schools are more aware of not only the educational needs of its students, but their mental needs as well. From introducing mental health week curricula, school-sponsored awareness events, and access to social workers, there are...
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...
