Gale Donates Proceeds from Cameron’s Collection Sales to the CKG Foundation to Support Student Mental Health & Wellness
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. and RICHMOND, VA. – May 21, 2022 – Gale, a part of Cengage Group, in the present day introduced the Cameron K. Gallagher (CKG) Foundation with a examine for greater than $18,000 from the proceeds of Cameron’s Collection and Cameron’s Camp for Wellness on the Gale eBooks platform to additional help their training and consciousness of pupil psychological well being and wellness. The collections are units of eBooks created by Gale that assist college students higher perceive their psychological well being and supply steering to strengthen their social and emotional studying (SEL) abilities.
Since the collections launched in 2018, Gale has donated almost $70,000 of the proceeds bought to the CKG Foundation. More than 2.5 million college students throughout the nation have entry to the collections.
Cameron Gallagher, a vivid and gifted younger lady battling despair and anxiousness whose dream was to increase consciousness and stop the pointless struggling from stigma. At the age of 16, she abruptly handed away from an undiagnosed coronary heart situation after crossing the end line of a half-marathon, a objective she set which helped her cope. Her legacy and efforts dwell on via the CKG Foundation and its nationwide “SpeakUp” 5k races, which increase consciousness and supply assets to teenagers that suffer from despair and anxiousness.
To help Cameron’s dream and preserve her legacy alive, Gale, in collaboration with the CKG Foundation, created Cameron’s Collection and Cameron’s Camp to guarantee colleges are geared up with academic assets to assist college students, in addition to donate a portion of the proceeds from every assortment bought to the CKG Foundation to help their mission to domesticate consciousness and understanding of teenage despair and anxiousness.
“CKG Foundation is so grateful for Gale’s support. I am personally incredibly grateful for all this company does to prioritize mental health,” mentioned Grace Gallagher, Cameron’s mom and Executive Director of the CKG Foundation. “I feel privileged to work with Gale to reach as many students as we possibly can. The generous support given to CKG Foundation to deliver our work is truly saving lives. Our students deserve the very best from us and thanks to Gale they know they are not alone, they can reach out for help, and most importantly they have hope and can realize their true worth being here on earth.”
Cameron’s Collection has greater than 100 digital titles span a variety of subjects together with: ADD, ADHD, alcohol, anorexia, anxiousness, bulimia, caregiving, reducing, despair, divorce, medication, consuming issues, homelessness, OCD, self-injury, stress, suicide, mindfulness practices, objective setting and neighborhood involvement. Created in partnership with the CKG Foundation, this assortment goals to encourage college students to make their psychological well being and wellness a precedence.
Cameron’s Camp for Wellness comprises greater than 100 eBooks that present focused steering on delicate points for Okay–5 college students, lecturers, and counselors with subjects on managing feelings, teamwork, problem-solving, household points, staying optimistic, being secure, and far more. The core basis of this assortment helps college students acknowledge and handle feelings, social abilities, and security.
“Studies show that one out of five teens suffer from mental health challenges and more than 75% don’t seek help[i],” mentioned Paul Gazzolo, senior vice chairman and common supervisor at Gale. “Our young people are more than just statistics. They are daughters, sons, sisters, brothers, cousins, nieces and nephews. We likely all know someone who has been impacted by mental health challenges. Gale is honored to partner with the CKG Foundation. We know that this donation will go far in supporting awareness of and addressing the mental health needs of our nation’s youth.”
For extra info, go to Gale’s SEL webpage.
About Cengage Group and Gale
Cengage Group, an training expertise firm serving hundreds of thousands of learners in 165 nations, advances the method college students study via high quality, digital experiences. The firm at the moment serves the Okay-12, increased training, skilled, library, English language instructing and workforce coaching markets worldwide. Gale, a part of Cengage Group, believes in the energy and pleasure of studying. For colleges, the firm helps drive optimistic outcomes by offering important, curriculum-aligned content material that empowers educators to remedy curriculum challenges and meet college students the place they’re. Today that features supporting distance and social and emotional studying in addition to fairness and inclusion targets. Gale’s Okay-12 choices prolong from academic databases and customized eBook collections to tutorial instruments {and professional} improvement assets. For extra info, please go to: www.gale.com/schools.
About the Cameron Okay. Gallagher Foundation
The Cameron Okay. Gallagher (CKG) Foundation is a beacon of hope for many who are affected by teenage psychological sickness. From free psychological well being packages for teenagers, to peer help curriculum in native colleges, to nationwide 5k races that increase consciousness for teenage despair and anxiousness, CKG Foundation helps those that are preventing the good struggle to SpeakUp and get assist.
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[i] National Alliance on Mental Illness: Mental Health by the Numbers
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