Each year FHE Health awards two outstanding individuals, one an undergraduate and one a graduate student, with a $5000 scholarship to help further their education in the field of addiction, mental/behavioral health and/or psychiatry. In this first of two blogs spotlighting this year’s winners, you’ll meet Joseph ... Read More
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2024 Hope for Healing Undergraduate Recipient Shares Story of Resilience
Meet the 2024 Winners of the “Hope for Healing Scholarship”!
Last week, we introduced you to eight outstanding finalists for this year’s “Hope for Healing Scholarship,” each with an inspirational story to tell. We can’t thank them enough for their contributions in the field of behavioral health and wish them the very best in their pursuits. They will go far! Once again, the ... Read More
How Therapy in Sign Language Became Her Dream: Lindsay Koncz’ Path to the 2023 Hope for Healing Scholarship
Some stories change lives forever. At the time, Lindsay Koncz was majoring in Deaf Studies at Towson University, near Baltimore, Maryland, when a Deaf man visited her class. The man shared what it was like to lose his best friend to AIDS in the 1980s and face the many emotions of grief on his own, without help and ... Read More
From Drugs and Alcohol to Star Student and Campus Leader – Mason Collie’s Journey to Win the 2023 Hope for Healing Scholarship
Updated May 23, 2024 21-year-old Mason Collie has come a long way in just a few years. At the age of 17, his struggles with drugs and alcohol had escalated to a point where he was facing potential legal consequences as a result of his actions. Today, the future looks bright for the undergraduate recipient of the ... Read More
Meet the Finalists for FHE Health’s 2023 Hope for Healing Scholarship
FHE Health’s Hope for Healing Scholarship committee has chosen eight finalists for the 2023-2024 award. You’ll get to meet each of these outstanding people below, but first, some fun facts about this year’s applicant pool: Once again, the competition was fierce: Over 470 people applied; 162 of them at the graduate ... Read More
FHE Health Honored as “Large Business of the Year” for Its Community Leadership and Service
FHE Health was honored to receive the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce’s “Large Business of the Year” Award, at a luncheon at the Wyndham Deerfield Beach, on Friday, December 9, 2022. The third annual Community Heroes Awards ceremony, hosted by the Chamber of Commerce’s Deerfield Beach Council, recognizes a ... Read More
FHE Health Luncheon Raises $12,000 for Another Therapy Dog for Broward County First Responders
It began as one first responder’s journey through PTSD with the help of his therapy dog. Today, it is a movement to train and enlist more therapy dogs for first responders in Broward County— and to inspire more communities around the country to do the same for their emergency personnel. That was evident at an ... Read More
First Responder Mental Health at Heart of New Partnership
FHE Health has a new partner in its mission to support first responder mental health. The non-profit organization Irish Angel has been working to end mental health stigmas among first responders and to help them access quality treatment that addresses their unique needs. Amanda Coleman is the co-founder of Irish ... Read More
