TOMORROW WAS YESTERDAY WHITE HOUSE BOOK PROJECT by Dede Ranahan SMI Advocates Urge President Biden’s Pick for HHS Secretary to Leave No One Out WORLD-WIDE GOOD DEEDS IN HONOR OF TOMMY RASKIN by the Raskin Family TOMORROW WAS YESTERDAY NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS SILVER MEDAL 2020 by Dede Ranahan IN MEMORY OF SYLVIA CHARTERS by Dede RanahanĮLLIE SHUKERT TAKES NO PRISONERS IN HER LETTER TO THE POWERS THAT BE - by Ellie Shukert LETTER TO SENATOR WYDEN/SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE by Dede Ranahan LETTER TO CA ASSEMBLY ABOUT LPS REFORM by Dede Ranahan MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE IN SAN FRANCISCO ARE CYCLING IN AND OUT OF EMERGENCY ROOMS by Heather KnightīEING THE MOTHER OF SOMEONE WITH SCHIZOPHRENIA by Susan Inman I respect them even when/if I don't agree with them. The opinions expressed by other writers on this blog are their own. People in need of mental health and mental illness assistance should see their mental health/mental illness providers. The mental illness comments and information I post on this website and on these blogs shouldn't be taken as advice or recommendations.
Sooner than tomorrow.ĭISCLAIMER: I never was or ever will be a psychiatrist or psychologist. I hope, with these two blogs, we'll see increased understanding and movement toward better mental illness care. It included a legacy for Pat and a stealth indictment of our mental illness system. But after Pat died, my diary morphed into something some complex. I wanted to leave a time capsule for my grandchildren. I wanted to reflect on the extra-ordinary in the ordinary. I felt like I was being dragged into the walled city of old age. My Diary: I began keeping my diary as I was approaching my 70th birthday. With already nearly $1 million raised, the Fund will be able to provide generous support every year to the causes Tommy championed, including ending global poverty and hunger, promoting human rights, defending animals against violence and suffering, and advancing global peace and non-violence.”īlog 1: Your Stories: Our stories of serious mental illness - and how it impacts individuals, our loved ones and our families - will help bring this topic into the mainstream discourse.īlog 2. This living Memorial - guided by Tommy’s values and led by Tommy’s sisters, cousin, and friends from Harvard Law School, Amherst College, and Montgomery Blair High School - will continue permanently. I called a family member I haven’t spoken to in many months because of a misunderstanding and it was so wonderful.įrom the Raskin Family: “We are touched by the thousands of contributions people have made from all over America - and all over the world - to the new Tommy Raskin Memorial Fund for People and Animals. I made 120 sandwiches for Shepherd’s Table. I’m doing one good act every day all year, including helping an elderly couple fix up their house and I cleaned and delivered my son’s old tricycle to a young girl who needed one.
I’m getting 6 birdhouses with plaques that say, “In Memory of Tommy Raskin and his love of animals” to give to all the Montgomery County Schools where Tommy went, including TPES, Eastern, and Blair High School. I will always speak up for the underdog in honor of Tommy and I’m donating to Animal Outlook. I donated to NAMI and will do a good deed every day in Tommy’s honor for 21 days.Ī husband and wife have started “Tommy’s Tuesday” when they go vegan. I donated 15 new pairs of boots to people in need. I adopted an elephant in Tommy’s name through Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Trash cleanup is going on in the Black Forest of Germany to make a better environment for animals and people. I’m giving food all week to unemployed restaurant workers in Baltimore. I’m donating stimulus checks to anti-hunger and pro-justice groups in El Salvador. Kids are donating toys, stuffed animals, and clothes to Children’s Hospital. I’m sending thank-you cards to frontline workers. I’m an 8th grader donating my Christmas money to the Safe Haven Farm Sanctuary.Įleven churches in “Field of Hope” are donating $16,548 in honor of Tommy to help give farmers overseas training and tools to end global hunger. I’m delivering groceries to families in Maryland struggling financially.
It’s gone worldwide.Ī few of the efforts being made in Tommy’s memory: The Acts of Goodness Project in Honor of Tommy Raskin, and in Support of the Raskin Family is a local project launched by the McDonough Family. Tommy Raskin, the 25-year-old son of US Congressman Jamie Raskin and his wife Sarah, died by suicide New Year’s Eve 2020.
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