A LETTER FROM OUR CEO - Vicki Condon
Please accept our sincere and heartfelt thanks for your ongoing interest and support for Raise.
Since our humble beginnings, we have empowered over 5,400 young Australians to become more resilient, capable and connected. We are extremely proud of and we couldn’t have done it without you. Whether you’ve donated your time, your treasure, or your talent, it has all contributed to our mission to create thriving communities through our early intervention mentoring programs.
Young Australians are struggling more than ever. Mental ill health is pervasive and more young people die by suicide than by any other cause in our country. With your help, we can provide mentors who make a difference.
After a decade of program evaluation, we know young people with Raise mentors experience significant growth in their coping skills, confidence, communication, goal setting, hope for the future and ability to ask trusted adults for help. In doing so we help them achieve critical milestones on the path to a happy and healthy adulthood such as completing high school and gaining employment.
Our work is far from done. If Raise Villagers like you stand beside us, we can deliver on our commitment to impact many more young Australians in need. With a track record of success, an ever-growing skilled volunteer mentor base and the dedication to offer our program to every public secondary school in Australia, we now need to dramatically increase our funding.
We know you want your gift to be effective, so please know it will go straight towards providing a mentor for a struggling young person in our industry-leading mentoring programs.
Please do help. We need to do more.
Kind regards,
Vicki Condon, Founder & CEO
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