Ongoing
Scholarships
From our inception in 2021, we are proud to say that we have been able to provide over $ 26,000 in financial aid for people in our community to be able to obtain counseling. These services not only have enriched their lives, but the lives of their families, workplaces, friends, and thereby our greater community.
Tool for Tough Times
Our county has seen a dramatic rise in suicide ideation, attempts, and completions, as well as substance use and abuse among our kids. This terrifying reality brought about our newest initiative: to install regular Dialectal Behavioral Therapy Groups in all of our middle and high schools in Coweta County. We were so fortunate to get our initial funding from a Grant from Caring Customers Newnan Utilities Foundation! We have since begun these groups in a few of our middle schools and have plans to expand this programming as time goes on. We are eager to continue to help the adolescents in our community learn more tools to help them increase their tolerance for distressing emotions, knowing that they are capable of getting through hard times and getting to the other side, where the rest of their full lives await them.
Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
The Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia graciously granted Frayed Edges Foundation with funds to provide individual counseling scholarships to mothers and expecting mothers.
We were awarded a grant through Coweta Community Foundation Long Term Tornado Relief Funds and in partnership with Coweta Family Connections aimed at providing stress relief and healing for the executive directors of many of the nonprofits in our county who provided aid for those affected by the tornado. These leaders in our community have continued to work with people for the last year and a half and have thereby been exposed to vicarious trauma and incredible stress to the point of potential burn out.
We will be contracting out the therapy services through Sea Glass Therapy.
The program consists of an initial event were we will host all of the executive directors of the nonprofits in our community who helped when the tornado wreaked havoc in Newnan. The event will have food and an experiential therapeutic exercise for them to help assess their stress levels as well as experience relaxation. At this event, they will be offered the opportunity to sign up for the full program.
The full program allows for 12 of the executive directors to participate in 6 weeks of individual therapy sessions as well as group sessions that consist of experiential healing therapeutic exercises as well as group processing.