About Us
The Jed Foundation was founded in 2000 by Phil and Donna Satow after they sadly lost their 20-year-old son, Jed, to suicide. The Jed Foundation is a New York-based 501 (c) (3) charitable organization with a mission to reduce the suicide rate among college and university students, across the United States.
The organization’s major initiatives are rooted in our widely-distributed “Prescription for Prevention” model that defines a comprehensive suicide prevention and mental health promotion framework for colleges and universities. Our programs, informed by both clinical and public health perspectives, target the full range of audiences who can influence college mental health, including students, colleges, politicians, mental health professionals and parents. Our work:
- fosters greater public awareness of the extent of college-age suicides;
- collaborates with colleges and universities to strengthen mental health services on campus;
- creates linkages between the academic research community that works on suicide prevention, and the higher education professionals who work directly with students; and
- produces innovative internet-based intervention systems for college students.
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