Janine Francolini, Founder/Executive Director, the Flawless Foundation SOURCE: Huffington Post Over the past month there has been an important national discussion concerning discriminatory remarks about people living with mental illness in the media. My recent posts were written as open letters to Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz and Brian Williams inviting them into a discussion about…
Janine Francolini, Founder/Executive Director, the Flawless Foundation SOURCE: Huffington Post Dear Dr. Phil, I am writing in response to your show the other day that has thankfully become headline news and to express my gratitude to you, our dear colleague Pete Earley and USA Today News for opening up this very important conversation. (For readers…
Janine Francolini, Founder/Executive Director, the Flawless Foundation SOURCE: The Huffington Post This week we celebrated the Fourth of July! A holiday we associate with fireworks, flags, picnics at the beach and a festive celebration of our country’s independence. So why on the fourth was my first thought not of fun and frolic but of…
Janine Francolini, Founder/Executive Director, the Flawless Foundation SOURCE: The Huffington Post Awareness! And Awareness is what we have been focusing on this past month, as President Obama signed a proclamation declaring May as National Mental Health Awareness Month (the first president to do so!) Mental health was prominently featured in the media — including personal…
Janine Francolini, Founder/Executive Director, the Flawless Foundation SOURCE: The Huffington Post “Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. Dear President Obama, What a week: the one-month anniversary of the tragedy in Newtown, your announcement about plans for mental health reform and gun control, and the inauguration all…
Janine Francolini, Founder/Executive Director, the Flawless Foundation SOURCE: The Huffington Post Through our shock, outrage and incomprehensible sadness at the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we listened carefully as our President emotionally addressed the nation saying that we will be taking meaningful action to prevent another such tragedy. Today we send our heartfelt…
Janine Francolini, Founder/Executive Director, the Flawless Foundation SOURCE: The Huffington Post The first night of Passover and Good Friday — a powerful spiritual double header for sure. After a long day of meetings talking about mental health advocacy, I stopped for gas on my way to the Oakland airport to head home to Portland.…
Janine Francolini, Founder/Executive Director, the Flawless Foundation SOURCE: The Huffington Post Three years ago, I started the Flawless Foundation: a charity that takes a stand for more humane, compassionate care for children living with neurodevelopmental challenges. I did this because I simply had to. I was called to take action in the same way…
