illness
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 23:03.
Hailing from Kearney, NE, Brandon Fletcher won a BRICK Award in 2004 for his work promoting awareness of mental health challenges. Diagnosed with learning disabilities, Brandon founded Youth Encouraging Support (Y.E.S.) to support kids with mental health challenges and shatter the stereotypes and stigma associated with mental illness.
Submitted by BRICK Winner on Sat, 08/26/2006 - 22:40.
2000 BRICK Award winner Heather Barr worked as a Staff Attorney at the Urban Justice Center in New York City. A formerly homeless teen, Heather wrote a definitive report on the incarceration of people with mental illness, filed a successful lawsuit to compel New York City to provide discharge planning for 30,000 inmates with mental illness each year. She also co-founded the Nathaniel Project, the nation’s first alternative to incarceration program for felony offenders with serious mental illness.
