Our Mission
Help & Heal Mental Health Fund empowers individuals living with mental illness to reclaim hope and stability by providing compassionate support, accessible peer-led community resources, and small grants that help address financial barriers to recovery and well-being. Through fostering connection, resilience, and access to critical assistance, we strive to support people through challenging mental health journeys and promote long-term healing and self-advocacy.
Our History
Dr. John Grohol, founder of Help and Heal Mental Health Fund, has dedicated his life to helping people better understand themselves — especially their mental health and emotional needs.
For years, Dr. Grohol’s mental health website Psych Central, organized community fund drives for members of its online support groups, My Support Forums. These fund drives are focused on community members who are in dire financial need due to a one-time difficulty, emergency, medical bill, treatment cost, or other situation where such financial help can mean the difference between making it through the month or being homeless. The fund drives result in the disbursement of a personal grant to the individual in need.
Psych Central was sold to Healthline in August 2020. The organization’s name was changed from the Psych Central Community Connection to the Help and Heal Mental Health Fund thereafter to reflect the continuation of the nonprofit under Dr. Grohol’s stewardship.
About the Beyond Blue Grants Program
The Beyond Blue Grants Program joined the Help & Heal Mental Health Fund in 2015 as Beyond Blue Foundation Founder Therese Borchard made the difficult decision to close the Foundation, but continue its projects. As Therese noted:
Having exhausted almost every treatment offered by both the medical world (more than 50 medication combinations, years of psychotherapy) and holistic world (supplements, meditation, specific diets, acupuncture, yoga), she wondered how she would be able to endure another 40-plus years with such a strong desire to die.
Drawing on the wisdom of her heroes — Mother Teresa and renowned psychiatrist Viktor Frankl — she tried to turn her pain into service, to connect with other people experiencing the same debilitating thoughts, and to see whether it was possible to transcend her own suffering by lifting someone else from darkness.