Many
years ago, I asked God, "Why are queer* kids born to intolerant
families?"
Softly, simply, He answered, "To increase
their capacity to love."
i.e.
to increase both the LGBT child's capacity to love beyond
the fear of rejection, and pain, and to increase her, or
his family's (and family community's) capacity to love
beyond the fear of damnation, and shame. ~
Love. And if you
are unable to be so loving, be willing to be so loving. If
you're not so willing, be willing to be so willing--dial it
back to as many layers of willing as you may need, just be
willing to eventually get to that heart space; Divine Love
will take care of the rest, including [if you're willing]
enabling you to eventually Be as Love Is too.
Rev.
Michaele de Cygne Founder,
National Suicide Prevention Directory
(Ephesians 5:2. Galatians 5:14)
"...it
gets better..."
A Message to Queer Youth from Fort Worth City
Councilman Joel Burns
LGBT/GLBT kids, the
Councilman is right. Had the founder of the NSPD been
successful in her suicide attempts as a child, and teen,
this resource would not be before you now. The primary
motivation behind the creation of the National Suicide
Prevention Directory was the prevention of suicide among
LGBT/GLBT children, teens and youth. Youth is only a
season in life; it passes, and, as it does, your
positive, self-uplifting options increase, your ability
to stand [despite any, and all odds against you]
increases, and life DOES get better!!
Just
reach out, speak your truth, and you'll find
others who will stand with you; you do not need
to stand alone.
In
mid-1996, Rev. Michaele de Cygne was walking out onto
her front porch, in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles,
CA. In her hands was a newspaper article about a local
lesbian teen who had (then) recently committed suicide.
Being a researcher, and the Executive Director of a
charitable trust, she went to research the availability
of online crisis line info, and found there only a few
at that time. That finding inspired her to conceive, and
then to assemble the National Suicide Prevention
Directory. (To date, other than hiring two people to
update it in 2005, she has been single-handledly
advancing this Work since its conception.)
Initially,
the NSPD was presented by theMERE
Project Trust, (which Rev. de Cygne had
established in 1992, to advance the
production, and public distribution of
neuroaudio software she had developed, as well
as any other charitable endeavors she chose to
pursue.)
Scope
The National Suicide Prevention Directory (NSPD) was
developed to be the most comprehensive list of U. S.
suicide prevention/crisis intervention centers available
on the Internet. The NSPD was
primarily established to be a national deterrent to
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) youth
suicide.
Since its inception, the NSPD has received tens of
thousands of hits per month, which translates into it
having been a significant deterrent to suicide in the
United States of America during its existence, (naturally
extrapolating to such prevention in the rest of the
world's human population).
Public
Support is Required to Update, and Upgrade the NSPD
Elvespirit
sponsors the NSPD for
the MERE Project Charitable Trust, and relies
on the public to fund all aspects of NSPD
updating. The Trust has contracted the web design
consultancy, Smack
Happy Design, to deliver a complete
overhaul of the NSPD. (The estimated cost of
the overhaul is $10,000 USD. The Trust will
also require additional funds to hire2
independent consultants to call every existing
therein contact, to verify them again, to make
any needed changes [for Smack Happy], and to
add locations that have arisen since the last
update.) The Trust must rely on public support
to raise those funds, hence, it has enabled
you to thereto donate in order to participate
in making that happen--for the entire country,
all of its territories, and, expanding the
International section, the entire world. Please
Do!
Last
Comprehensive NSPD Update: 2005
To date, according to recent reports from others
who encouraged the Trust to take this step,
there is still no other more comprehensive
database for such resources. Certainly,
watchdogs of the respective organizations have
kept an eye on the NSPD, and have enabled the
NSPD to accurately represent their contact info,
however, the last time the NSPD was given a
major overhaul was in 2005. Please hereby assist
the MERE Project by enabling it to fulfill the
"Smack Happy ReVision" of the NSPD. The
friend, co-worker, family member, or stranger
at whom you find yourself idly staring today
may be planning on not being alive tomorrow--any
material support you hereby provide the Trust
will directly serve to enable the NSPD to help
others to save countless lives; if not their
own.
Required Funds
Smack
Happy ReVision Budget
Web design services: $10,000 USD
Freelance consultant services, (2
persons, verifying, and updating the NSPD's raw
data): $6,500
Total: $16,500
Disclosure:
(January 4, 2021) The above donation
button(s) constitutes a charitable
solicitation thereby being made by Elvenspirit
(EIN:
85-3090728), which is organized, and
operated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit,
tax-exempt organization.
All funds hereby donated are fully
tax-deductible.
How You May Otherwise Help to Upgrade the
NSPD
Additionally, if you are presently aware of any
relevant suicide prevention organizations in your
local area that are not herein listed,
particularly those which serve to prevent the
suicide of this nation's youth, irrespective of
sexual, and/or gender orientation, please contact
either of the below e-mail addresses with update
requests:
