Hello Family and friends. Thank you for visiting my Tour de Vail fundraising page

I am taking part in this year’s Tour de Vail fundraising event for adults with mental illness.
Vail Place provides recovery-oriented support services to help people manage their mental illness, live self-sufficiently in the community, and stay out of the hospital.

$4.60 a day or $1,900 a day, and 80 percent. . .

• It costs Vail Place $4.60 a day per person to provide its services.
• It costs an average of over $1,900 for one day of psychiatric hospitalization here in Minnesota.
• The hospitalization rate of people who come to Vail Place is reduced by over 80 percent!
• a gift of $32 will support a member at Vail Place for a week.
• It would take almost 60 gifts of $32 to pay for that one day of a hospital stay.

I am pleased to be a part of this effort and to be able to ask you for your help. Donating through this website is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to support my fundraising efforts. Thank you for taking this opportunity to join me in supporting this vital work.

And here is a note from my best friend who is a Member of Vail Place and is also on The Board of Directors for Vail Place...  Theresa Dolata

“When I first came to Vail Place, I didn’t have many friends. I had just come out of the hospital after being hospitalized for my mental illness. I had been so depressed and isolated. I was homeless and jobless. Vail Place helped me find a place to live and a place to work. And at Vail Place, I found a welcoming atmosphere and, remarkably, a second family. I found people who are here for me – we understand each other. I have more friends now than I’ve ever had, and I am part of something again . . . not just something, but part of a wonderful community. It has been the key to my recovery.

“Oh, and by the way – I still have a mental illness . . . thanks to Vail Place, it no longer has me, and I have my life back. And I have not been back to the hospital since I started coming here. There are many more of us on the path to recovering our lives, and we count on our relationships with the members of the larger community for support. Thank you for taking this opportunity to help Vail Place provide the support we need to maintain our mental health, to keep us in our homes and our jobs, and on the path to recovery.”

Be an angel and give! Thank you for all your support!

Mish Megow