Kristin Brooks Hope Center - July 2006 Charity-of-the-Month
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Kristin Brooks Hope Center
615 7th Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20002
tel: 1-202-536-3200
email: info@hopeline.com
web: http://www.hopeline.com/
If you are in crisis and want to speak with someone, please call 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) immediately.
During depression the world disappears. Language itself. One has nothing to say. Nothing. Kristin experienced this misery, yet still managed to touch many lives and even in death continues to help others find help for their depression.
Kristin Brooks Hope Center has created a unique, one-of-a-kind website that gives you a raw, personal glimpse into depression, and how it affects those around you. In addition, you will find the only clear, step-by-step path for you to follow out of the darkness. There is hope and you can feel happy again! If you need to speak with someone right now call 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433).
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Our Mission
Kristin Brooks Hope Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to suicide prevention, intervention and healing: by providing a single point of entry to community-based crisis services through innovative telephony and internet based technologies; by bringing national attention and access to services for postpartum depression and other women's mood disorders; through education and advocacy; through formal research and evaluation of crisis line services; and, by championing the need for national funding for community-based suicide prevention crisis services.
Seeking help is important
Unfortunately, many people do not recognize that depression is a brain disease and is a treatable illness. If you feel that you or someone you care about is one of the many undiagnosed depressed people in this country, please take steps to get professional medical help that may help save your own or someone else’s life.
"Depression is a serious medical condition. In contrast to the normal emotional experiences of sadness, loss, or passing mood states, clinical depression is persistent and can interfere significantly with an individual’s ability to function. There are three main types of depressive disorders: major depressive disorder, dysthymic disorder, and bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness)."
In addition to these three main types of depressive disorders, women can also suffer after childbirth from varying degrees of postpartum depression. The word postpartum means "after birth," and postpartum depression (PPD) is a condition that describes a range of physical and emotional changes that many mothers can have after having a baby. PPD can be treated with medication and counseling. Talk with your health care provider right away if you think you have PPD.
Facts About Depression
* Major depression is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and worldwide.
* Depressive disorders affect an estimated 9.5 percent of adult Americans ages 18 and over in a given year, or about 18.8 million people in 1998.
* The economic cost of this disorder is high, but the cost in human suffering cannot be estimated.
* Nearly twice as many women (12 percent) as men (7 percent) are affected by a depressive disorder each year.
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Kristin Brooks Hope Center
615 7th Street NE
Washington, D.C. 20002
tel: 1-202-536-3200
email: info@hopeline.com
web: http://www.hopeline.com/
Kristin Brooks Hope Center (KBHC) corporate office does not provide individual crisis consultations or referrals to specific mental health services and service providers.
info@hopeline.com is not staffed 24/7 and does not provide on-line counseling services.
If you are in crisis and want to speak with someone, please call 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433) immediately. Your call will be connected to a certified crisis center closest to your calling location which is staffed twenty four hours a day, seven days a week by highly trained crisis line workers.
Non-Profit at The Vans Warped Tour Summer 2006
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The Kristin Brooks Hope Center is one of the many non-profits featured during the 2006 Vans Warped Tour. The Warped Tour and ‘Take Action!’ have teamed up to showcase a variety of non-profit organizations in the hope that the music lovers (our country’s youth) attending these shows will learn about the many ways they can get involved with non-profit organizations, contribute and cause a positive social change. For more information about the non-profits involved and 'Take Action!’, please follow this link:
http://warpedtour.com/static_content/view/take_action.html
To view several more images of Warped Tour '06 and ‘Take Action!’ , please follow this link.
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