The purpose of the Share Hope Through Art Fund is to share hope through art by doing art workshops and sharing art created, as well as resource information (suicide prevention material and local resources) with local mental/behavioral health treatment centers, wellness centers, etc. in Maryland in hopes of increasing mental health awareness, decreasing the stigma around mental and behavioral health struggles, breaking the isolation associated to feeling alone in one’s struggles and ultimately prevent suicides.
The founder wanted to turn suicide prevention, her passion, into a career. Judith Viers is a Licensed Master Social Worker and is now at Healing Hearts Carroll as a mental health therapist, specializing in depression and loss who can include creating memorial keepsakes to help clients live their best lives possible and have peace within.
Judith is soon July 2024 launching workshops with Share Hope through Art and hoping to find more workshop leaders as funds become available.
Judith is also a writer on mental health. Books at: J. K. Viers - Books and Publications Spotlight | Lulu.
NEW website!!!! The original website is Share Hope through Art (sharehopeart.blogspot.com).
Share Hope through Art is a grassroots suicide/ overdose prevention non-profit using art and community to help promote healing and hope. Check out our New Affirming Clothing Fundraiser!
Please view our first Community Meeting on Preventing Deaths of Despair on Facebook Live YouTube and professional camera footage continue the conversation by commenting, links to helpful information welcome!
Above videos are 1st- dream of a Share Hope Art Studio (pitch video for Carroll County Biz Challenge). 2nd- Founder speaking 1 minute about the non-profit at a local competition for funding at Westminster TownMall for the Carroll County Biz Challenge. (FYI- I did not get the Biz Challenge funding.) 3rd- Share Hope Art 2021 Book. 4th- Share Hope Rocks. Click here to hear the reason for Share Hope through Art.
Fundraisers:
Fundraising Book
Crap Happens Philosophy Introducing the Psychology & Sociology of Crap is a fundraising book for Share Hope through Art and may be used in future workshops, book discussion groups, and potentially a course. The purpose of this book is to help people come to terms with their struggles, so they can start overcoming them. The goal is to reach zero deaths due to despair, and to just start the conversation about mental health. We need to talk about it to end it. Crap Happens Website. Facebook. Order Book Here.
Share Hope through Art is founded by Judith Marie Kuzmak Viers, MSW, Peer.
Contact sharehopeart@gmail.com for more information.
Judith's biographical summary read at Ignite Carroll 9 by Vince Buscemi. Suicide Prevention J.K. Vier's Purpose Article.
On 6/29/2021 Share Hope through Art became an official fund and obtained non-profit status under the Community Foundation of Carroll County.
(c) 2021-2022 Judith Marie Kuzmak Viers. All right reserved.