In the third installment of Robin Robert’s #ThriverThursday, Lift the Mask documentary subject Claire Griffiths lifts her mask to a national audience. At age 13, Claire was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. During her darkest times, she developed an eating disorder, hallucinated and at her worst attempted suicide. Through treatment, Claire has gotten better and is now sharing her story and working to change the stigma of mental health.

The Quell foundation announces the addition of Sarah Marshall as the Director of Marketing and Communications. Marshall brings to the foundation strategic communications experience which was obtained during time she spent in various university athletic departments, with non-profit organizations, and with the governing body for USRowing.

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Kevin Lynch sits down with Joyce Bender on “Disability Matters” to discuss The Quell Foundation and its mission to reduce the number of suicides, overdoses, and incarcerations of people with mental health disabilities.

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod (AFCC) and The Quell Foundation announce a partnership to provide scholarships to high school seniors who have either been diagnosed with a mental health condition or who have lost a family member to suicide and who are planning to pursue a college degree in an arts-related field.

The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and The Quell Foundation partner to provide scholarships for high school seniors on Cape Cod who suffer from a mental health condition or have lost a family member to suicide.

Nova Southeastern University (NSU), to premiere the film, “Lift the Mask Portraits of Life with Mental Illness,” at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 2 in the Knight Auditorium.

Becker College receives $40,000 donation from The Quell Foundation, which will be awarded in the form of scholarships, are designed to address an escalating shortage of mental health professionals and the need for greater access to quality care.

When Carrah Kalat lost her mother to suicide in the summer of 1992, she had just a few months to grieve before starting college. On campus, Kalat juggled feelings of pain with relief that her volatile childhood and her mom’s struggles were over. And when pressed by friends, she’d say it was cancer that killed her mother at 45 — something more respectable, she thought, than alcoholism and depression.