Dear Friends and Community,
We ask for your support during this difficult time, as a family in Crown Heights deals with a severe mental health crisis. When a member of the family reached out to Righteous regarding their situation where two members in the family require urgent psychiatric care, not covered by medical insurance, we knew we needed to help. One family member actually overdosed three weeks ago in a suicidal attempt.
As you can imagine, a devastating situation like this comes with a lot of baggage, and the medical and therapy expenses have been overwhelming, putting the family in serious debt. In addition, the shame and public scrutiny that they may now face will be alleviated if they are able to handle the tremendous expense burden.
We are reaching out to ask for your help in covering the cost for our fellow community member. Any contribution, big or small, would be greatly appreciated.
Please consider DONATING to this campaign to help us give the family reprieve from the financial hardships they are facing. They want their two kids to get well, and with your financial contribution, they will be one small step closer to getting the help so desperately needed.
Mental health in the Jewish community is an extremely important and underdiscussed topic that deserves more attention. Nobody should be suffering so terribly on the inside.
Ty for helping crown heights it’s a big problem
Thank you for the opportunity to help! And yes, your exactly right, this topic of mental health should be mainstream and love and acceptance must be felt and given by all especially in the Chabad community that invented “No Jew Left Behind!” May your beautiful children have an immediate and permanent refuah shlaimeh and yeshuos, bgashmius and bruchnias and for all who need it! Only revealed good to you and your family, nachas, and all the brochos of the Avos and Imahos now and forever!
Thank you for speaking about this; a very relatable and important topic. Happy to contribute what I can. Thank you for doing G-d’s work.
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Why can’t they go to any public mental hospital in Brooklyn? They can’t refuse you if you can’t pay. This is clearly a life and death Gd forbid situation. Even if you get a bill after, somehow Gd will help you deal with it. Right now these children are in serious life threatening situations. Why aren’t you going to any public mental hospital in Brooklyn? Because you can’t pay up front? If you children Gd forbid were both physically dying in front of you, would you let them die because you don’t have the money to pay up front? It’s… Read more »
Most ppl that are struggling are not willing to get help and that’s the main issue, hashem should help
We all know that these hospitals won’t help. They’ll help just temporarily to make sure the person stays alive. They don’t have the best doctors to truly help someone. To really help someone with their mental health, you need really good therapists, doctors, professionals to help. Healing the brain is so complicated and the lowest quality doctors are not capable. So yes, a tremendous amount of money is needed to truly heal someone because the good doctors out there cost a fortune.
I just think a lot of these people that are struggling these options don’t always work
Just like we don’t go to just any public hospital or Medicaid Dr. when we have serious health issues chas veshalom someone struggling with a Mental Illness should be able to get the same quality care.
Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan has an excellent out patient psychiatric program.
Free of charge if your are on Medicare, both for therapy and medications