Bluebonnet Trails and Pick With Austin, Inc., Launch Suicide Prevention Partnership; Target Young Central Texans Through Music
Round Rock based charity, Pick With Austin, Inc., and Bluebonnet Trails Community Services are partnering to increase suicide prevention efforts targeted at youth in Central Texas. The goal of this new partnership is to identify those who will benefit from services provided by Pick With Austin, Inc. and positively impact families, teens and youth in crisis.
Round Rock, TX, March 12, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Round Rock, Texas, based charity, Pick With Austin, Inc., and Bluebonnet Trails Community Services are partnering to increase suicide prevention efforts targeted at youth in Central Texas. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young people between the ages of 15 to 24. Even more disturbing is the fact that suicide is the fourth leading cause of death for children between the ages of 10 and 14.
The goal of this new partnership is to identify those who will benefit from services provided by Pick With Austin, Inc. and positively impact families, teens and youth in crisis. Music is an important part of most young peoples’ lives so the partnership will harness the beauty and therapeutic properties of music to educate and reach out to at-risk children and teens. To this end, Pick With Austin, Inc. will deliver the message and distribute musical instruments to children and teens who are disadvantaged, who live in lower socioeconomic areas or have significant health problems and impairments.
The new partnership is an innovative and aggressive step toward further promoting awareness of the dangers of depression and suicide in our youth. Together, the organizations focus efforts toward educating people about the signs and symptoms, prevention, maintenance and treatment. Comprehensive solutions and assistance are available in Texas through programs such as those offered by Pick With Austin, Inc. and Bluebonnet Trails Community Services.
About Bluebonnet Trails Community Services
The mission of Bluebonnet Trails Community Services is to ensure the provision of accessible, efficient and effective services that support the dignity and independence of those they serve. Within our communities, Bluebonnet Trails serves adults with serious mental illness; children and adolescents with serious mental illness or emotional disorders, autism and pervasive developmental disorders; persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities; as well as infants and toddlers with developmental delays.
Bluebonnet Trails serves families in Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Lee and Williamson Gonzales.
About Pick With Austin
Pick With Austin, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation that operates in the memory of Texas teen guitarist, Alan Carter Villaruz-Curley. The organizations purpose is to help educate and elevate a community awareness about a grow epidemic of youth depression and suicide. Pick With Austin uses Alan's Gift of Music to enhance this awareness while providing donated guitars to kids and teens in hospitals, in youth groups and ministries, and/or those whom have been identified in some way as being potentially "at risk" of depression.
Pick With Austin, Inc. is fully funded and supported by private and corporate grants and donations, and by the goodwill of those who donate their time and efforts into making Alan's memory live on forever.
For more information, contact Pick With Austin, Inc. by calling 512-826-5380.
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The goal of this new partnership is to identify those who will benefit from services provided by Pick With Austin, Inc. and positively impact families, teens and youth in crisis. Music is an important part of most young peoples’ lives so the partnership will harness the beauty and therapeutic properties of music to educate and reach out to at-risk children and teens. To this end, Pick With Austin, Inc. will deliver the message and distribute musical instruments to children and teens who are disadvantaged, who live in lower socioeconomic areas or have significant health problems and impairments.
The new partnership is an innovative and aggressive step toward further promoting awareness of the dangers of depression and suicide in our youth. Together, the organizations focus efforts toward educating people about the signs and symptoms, prevention, maintenance and treatment. Comprehensive solutions and assistance are available in Texas through programs such as those offered by Pick With Austin, Inc. and Bluebonnet Trails Community Services.
About Bluebonnet Trails Community Services
The mission of Bluebonnet Trails Community Services is to ensure the provision of accessible, efficient and effective services that support the dignity and independence of those they serve. Within our communities, Bluebonnet Trails serves adults with serious mental illness; children and adolescents with serious mental illness or emotional disorders, autism and pervasive developmental disorders; persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities; as well as infants and toddlers with developmental delays.
Bluebonnet Trails serves families in Bastrop, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Lee and Williamson Gonzales.
About Pick With Austin
Pick With Austin, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation that operates in the memory of Texas teen guitarist, Alan Carter Villaruz-Curley. The organizations purpose is to help educate and elevate a community awareness about a grow epidemic of youth depression and suicide. Pick With Austin uses Alan's Gift of Music to enhance this awareness while providing donated guitars to kids and teens in hospitals, in youth groups and ministries, and/or those whom have been identified in some way as being potentially "at risk" of depression.
Pick With Austin, Inc. is fully funded and supported by private and corporate grants and donations, and by the goodwill of those who donate their time and efforts into making Alan's memory live on forever.
For more information, contact Pick With Austin, Inc. by calling 512-826-5380.
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Jeff Curley
512-826-5380
www.pickwithaustin.com
Jeff Curley
512-826-5380
www.pickwithaustin.com
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