The Kristin Brooks Hope Center
President | H. Reese Butler II | |
Directors | Joel Bockovitch, Benedria D. Smith, Casey Strom, Danny Adams | |
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Revenue (2020) | $84,423[2] | |
Expenses (2020) | $85,013[2] | |
Website | www |
The Kristin Brooks Hope Center (KBHC), an American
History
H. Reese Butler II started the Kristin Brooks Hope Center after he received a check from his wife's employer which was a death benefit amounting to one year's salary. The amount was $34,017. Reese decided to donate the money to an organization focused on preventing suicide as a result of postpartum depression or psychosis. Upon learning there was no such organization in 1998, he decided to donate it to an organization that ran a national suicide hotline for people in crisis. Upon learning that in 1998 that there was no national suicide hotline linking the more than 800 community based suicide crisis hotlines, he founded the Kristin Brooks Hope Center and began linking those community crisis hotlines through 1-888-SUICIDE (784-2433). 1-888-SUICIDE and 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433) were both part of the National Hopeline Network from its activation September 16, 1998, until the Federal Communications Commission temporarily reassigned[3] it in January 2006.
The
HELP Grant
During the three-year federal grant known as the HELP Project, two separate studies to determine the effectiveness of suicide hotlines were conducted using 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433) to conduct the evaluations.[4][5] In the credits for the Mishara led study he specifically thanks[6] Reese Butler, the Kristin Brooks Hope Center staff, Jerry Reed, and the Directors and helpers at the crisis centers who participated in this study.
References
- ^ a b "[1]". Kristin Brooks Hope Center]". Tax Exempt Organization Search. Internal Revenue Service. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
- ^ a b c "Form 990-EZ: Short Form Return of Organization Exempt from Tax". Krsitin Brooks Hope Center. Internal Revenue Service. September 30, 2020.
- ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- PMID 17579543.
- PMID 17579545.
- PMID 17579543.