Have you ever wondered why Catalyst grew and grew so fast? We grew to meet needs. We grew to close gaps. And we grew to remove barriers to services. Our growth came out of a fight for people...local kids, our therapists, and our community. How do you say no to a local school pleading for help? How do you turn away kids if building therapists get full? And how do you ask therapists to compromise quality by taking on more clients? You don’t. You hustle, you hire, and you build an organization that can handle it.
Our fight has been to hire additional therapists for each school building to keep up with the need so we’re not turning away kids. And our fight has been to “friendly stalk” private insurance companies until we pierced through almost every commercial panel. But what about families that are uninsured or underinsured? What if a family has a $5,000 or $10,000 deductible and can’t afford to pay out of pocket until they reach their deductible?
We’re proud to announce that we have established the Catalyst Counseling Foundation, a separate non-profit organization developed to help us CLOSE GAPS in care! We want to raise money to help cover the cost of mental health services for uninsured and underinsured kids. The fight is not over; we’re just getting started.
We may not be able to close gaps across the world, but if we put our heads and our hearts together, we can change the whole world of people right in our community by giving them access to quality mental health care!