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Make It Happen for Madi Challenge… Holding on for Dear Life

The “Make It Happen for Madi Challenge” is fundraising to help Madi continue medically necessary, high-level, life-sustaining, mental health care that is no longer being covered by insurance, despite the recommendations of her psychiatrist and therapists. To save her life, she was admitted to a residential treatment care facility that specializes in helping teens regain hope… We humbly need your help. To read her FULL STORY, click “See All” under “Updates” and find the first post dated March 19.

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May 26, 2025

“Save the Date!”

Hey all… this Friday, May 30th is “Hope in Action Day” and on that day, the nonprofit Help Hope Live will cover the credit card fee for donations made in honor of our “Make It Happen For Madi Challenge”… our fundraising campaign to support Madi's fight for hope in life.

We want to really, really thank everyone for the role you’ve already played in Madi’s fundraising campaign. Mental health is no joke and recovery and healing takes time and that time takes money.

Thanks to you, we’ve been able to cover 2 months of her RTC care as well as be reimbursed for our hotel and rental car fees during parent visitation in April. We are also blessed to have her upcoming June care fee taken care of also as well as the associated costs with our parent visitation coming up in the next couple weeks.

But we still need a lot of help, and it takes a village. We’ve not quite hit our goal which is set to cover 6 months of treatment, but it could be as much as 8-12 months. That’s why we want to thank you in advance for adding May 30th to your calendar and making a donation on that day or helping us to spread the word.

To make a donation, click on the "Give" button on this page.

Your donation is tax deductible and will go a long way to help Madeline continue consistent treatment in regaining hope for a future

THANK YOU for all you’ve done to put hope back into our lives, especially Madi's!

Love and blessings to all, Kristine & Rob

May 26, 2025

Has anyone else had a "May-cember" like I have? I'm sorry I haven't made an update in a really long time, as a school teacher in May, I've had WAY too much on my plate to keep my head above water and had to let something go and this was it.

To catch up... it's been an up and down road all month. Definitely hit a wall and are slowly trying to make our way around it. I think for all of us, the reality of the longevity of the situation is hitting hard. She anticipated being home for senior year, so did we... but it's not going to happen. There is still so much to uncover, and recover and grow from, and that takes time, especially when she finds herself back into depression of not coming home when she wanted to. That in turn leads to hopelessness. Additionally, she's struggled with abandonment issues which are only exacerbated because we could not get out to see her in May (we had work obligations that we just could not get out of so that was hard). Just the other day, we were able to start a healthy count down to our visit in June, so hoping that helps. Regardless... as a family that hugs often, when you don't get that, it's really, really, really hard to keep going sometimes, ugh!

So it's "meh" kind of an update. I'm hoping for more encouraging updates to come and welcoming everyone's prayers for Madi to keep persevering through challenging times and to find and to hold onto hope that she CAN overcome. Thank everyone! xoxo

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May 27, 2025

❤️❤️❤️

Merritt Segars

April 18, 2025

keeping Madeline in our prayers!

Lorrie Jo Turner

April 8, 2025

On behalf of Bill Schoenig, VTL

Daniel Gerena