Suicide Prevention and the Holiday Season
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Throughout the holiday season, we hear from friends, family and others in the community about how stressful it must be working at a crisis prevention…
Successful Transitions From Foster Care
Imagine spending your young adult years in different foster homes, or being placed in emergency shelters because there isn’t a foster home available to take…
Structure Best When Heading Back to School!
School is back in session! Summer is a time to be care free, but once another school year begins, it is back to business, structure,…
Future Fest Provides Hope
This blog is from Foundation 2 Mobile Crisis Staff Jessica Copley. Jessica writes about her experience staffing a booth at Future Fest. “On March 15,…
Random Acts of Kindness
February 17 is Random Acts of Kindness Day. It doesn’t take a big act to make a BIG DIFFERENCE! You never know what someone is going…
Foundation 2 Welcomes New Development Director
Foundation 2 is pleased to welcome Matthew R. Pollock as Development Director with Foundation 2. Matthew Pollock started as the Development Director with Foundation 2…
2017 Foundation 2 Gift Card Drive
This November Foundation 2 encourages you to help clients in need. To achieve this goal, we are holding a gift card drive! Why gift cards?…
Talking About Suicide
Yesterday, on July 20, 2017, Chester Bennington, the lead singer for Linkin Park, died by suicide. When well known people die, the issues that they…
Mental Health in Iowa
By Emily Blomme, guest columnist As the Executive Director of Foundation 2, a large agency in Eastern Iowa whose expertise is in crisis response, suicide…
Talking About Suicide
It is not easy to talk about suicide or to think that someone in your life may have thoughts of suicide. Perhaps you have had…