Thank you so much for checking out my fundraising page. As someone who suffers from mental health illness and who has spent many days suicidal, this cause is so important to me and dear to my heart. No donation is too small and with whatever amount you decide to give your donation goes to educate mental health professionals, physicians, teachers and the general public about mental health illnesses and to reduce the stigma that so often comes with that. Removing that stigma will allow for people to come forward to talk about thier illness and thus not have to suffer alone and in silence. Chances are that in your lifetime, someone you know will die by suicide. Please do not be fooled into thinking that it will never happen in your family or to anyone you know. Someone dies by suicide every 16 minutes in the U.S. and every 17 minutes thier friends and family are left to ask...WHY? As long as there is life...there is HOPE!  I am doing a 4 mile swim across The Straits of Mackinaw this August to raise awarness and a 50 mile non stop swim in August of 2011 for this same non profit foundation. Please help me bring that hope to thoes who feel hopeless. Thanks so much! Please feel free to pass this on. Again, no amount is to small, because every amount you choose to give helps save lives. If you can not be there to support me at my swim, this is the second best gift you could give me, thanks so much! Katrina