"Fighting Mental Health Stigmas"
Welcome to Fighters for Hope
Fighters for Hope (FFH) has a focused mission to increase awareness about mental health issues and remove the stigma about having meaningful conversations about suicide ideation and prevention. Through our two layers of message delivery, we provide first-hand deliverables to audiences at venues across the nation with heartfelt passion and intentional professionalism.
We partner with local behavioral health providers to ensure sustainable results. FFH also strives to provide constant care through our coalition group and a digital app, creating 24/7 access to immediate local help.
Veterans, first responders, at-risk youth, and vulnerable members of Indigenous groups are underserved and deserve the opportunity to change their narrative. Instead of losing so many to mental health issues or suicide, we must act!
What Fighters for Hope Coalition is About
Our Coalition
Fighters for Hope is a coalition of for-profit and non-profit entities that have joined forces to address mental health support and suicide ideation across multiple at-risk groups through ongoing education and inspirational events across North America. Our Fiscal Sponsor is Isaiah Drone III of Brokenness to Healing Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit aligned with our mission of hope. We are thrilled to partner with people and organizations that share our dream of making the mental health and suicide ideation conversation an essential part of the behavioral health environment. We can no longer bury the need!
Our Vision
The stigma of mental health and the shaming process embedded in our culture needs to change. FFH approaches these issues with a combination of local providers, local sponsors, and local non-profits who align with local behavioral health providers to deliver world-class care. The key is “Local,” with programs designed to create increased revenue that stays in your community. Our partners ensure that locally sponsored events keep 50 percent of every dollar that crosses the threshold. We return dignity to the equation. We focus on the physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being of our at-risk participants.
Our Promise
We will vette all local partners, so you don’t need to. We will provide training on our programs to all non-profits and behavioral groups we engage with. We will leave at least 50 percent of all revenue in the local economy with partners who will use the funds to benefit the at-risk populations they serve. We will do pro bono in-school events matching our paid events upon local administrator requests. We will provide on-site interventions for those who wish to participate. We will never walk away from those who need us the most. We will commit 90 percent of all donations back to the area generating the donation. We will provide access to resources and programs through our coalition and partners without discrimination. When we say, “No blaming, shaming, or judging,” that’s what we mean without exception. Can you make our promise a reality for your community?
FFH Original Events!
Four Pillars © Community Boost Camp ©
Description:
What is “Community” in today’s divisive social environment? Families are more disconnected than ever, and COVID-19 created a polar opposite effect when family groups were thrust into hyperbolic inclusion involuntarily. Add in the barriers to social interaction, and you have a recipe for social discontent. A day of fun interaction focused on how to co-create community and personal space is the answer to what ails society. Plus, it offers unique bonding opportunities intra-family, inter-family, and neighbors, permitting people to be “human” again. This full-day event guarantees lunch and fun. FFH focuses on “local first” groups, energizing congregations for pastors, culture-building for organizations, and community-building.
Dinner With a Winner ©
Description:
Everyone loves a celebration. Why not include some light education and a story-sharing event with someone special? Well, yes, bring your “+ one”; however, we use our Dinner with a Winner event to honor someone from your backyard! That’s right, such as a noted prosocial advocate, someone with a ‘survivor to thriver’ story, a community activist who fits our mission, or someone our partners and sponsors nominate. We feed the room, have our honoree tell their story (or let us help them if they are stage-shy), gift them an honorarium, and interject some basic ideology from our core mission. “DWAW” is the perfect event for a date night or to gift someone you know needs an uplift with one of our scholarship packages. Won’t you join us for a memorable event?
Break-Out Sessions at our Community Boost Camps © can include:
(All Break-Out Sessions performed by Path 2 Knowing Academy Staff or Special Guest Speakers)
Optimal Journey to Oneself ©
What is Optimal? We start with a solid foundation that helps participants self-define their quality worldview. Eudaimonia from the annals of Aristotle and transcendence from the Maslow Hierarchy, concept models 2000+ years apart, synthesize into a modern, cutting-edge approach to human development, and that’s only the first module we will discuss. Every mentor of note has a model; how many give you core concepts you can build upon for your unique needs? At the intensive and mastermind levels, this program sets participants on an incredible journey toward hyper-success.
Lost in Transition ©
What does “transition” look like, feel like, or entail? Sadly, failures in transition are common and share two identical root causes regardless of the type of pivot we discuss. Familiar transitions are from active-duty military to civilian life, first-responders released due to declines in physical ability, competitive athletes to post-career less or non-competitive pursuits, down-sized executives facing “chronic nonemployability,” recently divorced, or empty nesters. Here’s one you might not identify with readily: Adult offspring out on their own for the f irst time. There are many other potential transitions, and we have training and responses that will allow an optimal approach to this challenging dynamic. This offering is the “power player” course that uplifts and accentuates what self-actualization becomes when someone faces a life-altering transitional pivot zone.
LEAP Approach to Intervention ©
This course approaches one of the tragic aspects of being human is how we universally struggle with how to be the help someone in our orbit needs. There are many acronym-labeled approaches to intervention; however, most align with being a professional in the behavioral field. Our system is time-proven and easy to understand and implement. All it takes is a mindset shift, minimal role-playing to embed the training, and a welcoming heart set. How important is it to be a lifesaver? I’ll give you a hint: I’d rather spend my time saving a life than ever preparing to attend untimely funerals that are decades too early.
Prosocial Approach to PTSD/PTSI/STI ©
PTSD/PTSI/STI, most commonly attributed to veterans and first responders, is present in the daily lives of everyone. FFH aligns our approach to multiple trauma environments and vectors, primarily PTSI and STI. Although many sufferers devolve and anchor into PTSD, the more common version is not a disease or defect; we know it is an injury. Then, there is STI, certainly never a form of victimization anyone chooses. Yet, millions suffer from sexual trauma silently and needlessly, as we can help them escape from their pain and depression. There are answers; most require a tiny bit of courage and participation. Our trainers at FFH are the bridge between suffering in silence or getting confidential relief by removing the stigma and overwhelming shame most STI victims experience. Let us be your guide. Veterans, first responders, and STI survivor-thrivers willing to share?
Custom events for businesses and organizations upon request through Path 2 Knowing Academy!
Working Hours
Monday-Friday: 8am to 6pm
Saturday: 10am to 4pm
Sunday: Closed
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