Goals
- Increase awareness of mental health and the tragedy of student suicide
- Hold public education displays that are catalysts for action
- Give thousands of young people the opportunity to see the displays
- Develop educational resources with broad appeal and longevity
- Provide an outlet for people who have lost friends and loved ones
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Overview
Active Minds’ Send Silence Packing is a traveling display of 1,100 donated backpacks representing the 1,100 college student lives lost to suicide each year. This interactive event ends the silence around student suicide by bringing attention to the 1 in 10 students who contemplate suicide. We foster a dialogue about the 1,100 who commit suicide and ways to get that number to 0. The display manages to put a human face on the numbers of this tragedy. We have the capacity to continue this dialogue on campuses through our chapters long after the display is broken down, but we need your help to build it up. Active Minds can pair the display with speakers on the subject and the resources to start or maintain a chapter of Active Minds on a campus that hosts the display to ensure that the dialogue is not dropped and instead is continued at that school for years to come.
How will the 50K be Used? |
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| Budget Notes: Additional education materials distributed during the event that are secured for free from partner organizations such as the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, and Active Minds specific materials. | |
| $ 15,000 | Transportation and Travel |
| $ 18,500 | Project Management (incl. volunteer coordination) |
| $ 9,000 | Marketing and Supplies |
| $ 7,500 | Location and Rental |
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