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Suicide.”
The first editionof thebook is scheduled
to be released in December of this year.
iRise Leadership Institute
also has a mission to
provide suicide education tohigh schools, colleges
and corporations. One source of funds being
raised is through donations frommemorials from
friends and family lost due to suicide.
Kristie realizes that suicide is a very difficult issue
for parents to discuss with their children. The
stigma associated with the topic suggests failure
of their parenting skills or lack of a loving home.
The institute’s goal is to help talk through those
misconceptions and provide awareness and
education to younger people, who feel so much
deeper and might contemplate a suicidal act at
some point.
Kristie told us,
“If iRise Leadership Institute can help bring
awareness and education to young people
and let them see that others, just like them,
have had the same thoughts and issues they
are currently facing, it should help prevent
future instances of suicide among younger
people especially.”
One of the more interesting stories to come out
of the efforts to raise funds for
iRise Leadership
Institute
was the failure of a Kickstarter
campaign, which was established to raise
$5,000 to create funds for publishing the book.
Kristie said:
“The kick starter, by all accounts, was an
absolute bust. We did not meet our goal of
$5,000. I was sad; I truly believe in our project.
I thought that we would surplus our goal
knowing that it was about suicide awareness.
But we just didn’t. However something even
better resulted.”
Even though they failed to raise the needed
funds, her efforts were noticed by a publisher
from the United Kingdom, Kate Gardener, who
has promised to donate her firm’s publishing
services to get the
Unsung Hero’s Deconstructing
Suicide
book completed and in circulation by the
end of this year.
SOAR TO SUCCESS
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