The Elizabeth Morgan Brown Center, a One Mind ASPIRe clinic, recently opened in Sonoma County to serve young people ages 12-30, who experience early psychosis. The Center is a collaborative effort between One Mind, the Elizabeth Morgan Brown Memorial Fund, The County of Sonoma, Buckelew Programs and Aldea Children & Family Services and other public and private entities generously providing financial support. The Center is the inaugural coordinated specialty care clinic of One Mind’s ASPIRe initiative that will serve as an early intervention resource for the Sonoma community and connect families to additional care options and be staffed by professional mental health personnel including psychiatrists and nurse practitioners. It will serve as a model for other early intervention coordinated specialty care programs that the ASPIRe Initiative will launch in California and the nation to support the ASPIRe Initiative's goals of enabling 100% of youth with early SPI to receive gold-standard care and the proportion of patients who recover from SPI to rise to 75% by 2040.
Together with One Mind, we have raised funds to launch this cutting-edge clinic, made possible by our generous donors. Our goal is to expand this clinic to cities and counties throughout California and the United States so that youth everywhere will receive the gold standard of care.
Devastated by the loss of our daughter, we needed to channel our grief into a project which would make a difference for young people experiencing the mental health challenges faced by our dear Elizabeth. After extensive research and outreach, we met with Brandon Staglin, the President of One Mind, and shortly thereafter committed ourselves to the mission of One Mind and the achievement of the ASPIRe Initiative’s vision. Our activism, in tandem with One Mind’s extensive foundation and reputation in the community, has made the Elizabeth Morgan Brown Center a reality.
Thank you to everyone who attended the virtual grand opening event. If you missed it, you can watch the rebroadcasting of the event below:
About The Inaugural Concert in 2019
To address this mounting crisis we HELD a concert IN OCTOBER OF 2019 to help Sonoma County youth through Elizabeth Morgan Brown One Mind ASPIRE Sonoma County program.
The concert, A Message of Hope and Help, is part of a larger effort to bring mental health awareness, suicide prevention and treatment programs to Sonoma County through a public/private partnership. We are working to establish an innovative, evidence-based and effective Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) treatment program in Sonoma County, through the Elizabeth Morgan Brown Memorial Fund and One Mind’s ASPIRe program. This CSC program will assist children and young adults experiencing the symptoms of early psychosis, helping to reduce and manage symptoms, so participants may succeed in education, careers, and relationships.
We envision a purposeful, holistic, and compassionate approach to mental health care, a Coordinated Specialty Care program, providing a continuum of integrated approaches which involve educational and internship opportunities as well as art, music, lecture series, and college credits that will benefit our young people during recovery and treatment.
MANY THANKS
to sponsors’ generous donations, volunteers, and everyone
WHO ATTENDED THE CONCERT EVENT AND celebratED Elizabeth’s spirit and her legacy to help our Sonoma County youth in need and the families.
Click to listen to Elizabeth’s song.❤️ Love Yourself - A message of hope and help. ❤️
Elizabeth’s Story
From her earliest childhood, our joy in Elizabeth only grew, as we watched her develop into an intelligent, caring, and compassionate young lady with a passion for writing and music. She became an accomplished musician who played piano and violin for the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Elizabeth entered college early, at the age of 15, attending Bard College in Massachusetts, where she participated in a semester abroad at Oxford University in England. Though she devoted significant time and energy to her academic and artistic development, Elizabeth cultivated a profound commitment for helping others, and volunteered to serve those less fortunate in Africa, Haiti, and at home. She always focused on devoting herself for the sake of others, helping the most desperately poor and disenfranchised.
Elizabeth established an after-school program teaching karate to children with incarcerated parents, and a self-defense weekend retreat for the victims of domestic violence. During her struggles with depression and anxiety, she volunteered with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), intending to share her story with her peers at high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, to help bring awareness to mental health issues, and dispel the stigma and the silence. Sadly, before she could achieve her heart’s ambitions, Elizabeth took her own life, passing away at age 19 in May 2018. The Elizabeth Morgan Brown (EMB) Memorial Fund exists to realize her intentions to end the stigma and shame associated with brain illnesses and to serve others as she did. The EMB Memorial Fund is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and young adults suffering from brain illness. We thank you for your interest and support.
Click to learn more about ❤️ Elizabeth. ❤️