Erika's Lighthouse

Visit The Screening Room 2010!

Featuring the top entries from our recent Video Contest - including Honorable Mentions! We hope the work of these talented and insightful teens will help shed light on adolescent depression for you and everyone you know who's been touched by adolescent depression.

Watch now, then visit the Screening Room for more.

Grant Helps ELH Help Evanston Fight Adolescent Depression

Evanston Community Foundation recently awarded ELH a grant to provide staff training and development to social service and mental health agencies serving the families and youth in Evanston. The grant, entitled "A Community Working Together to Address Teen Depression" will enable ELH to help Evanston better understand childhood and adolescent depression and where appropriate, to examine how their services can be enhanced by utilizing Erika's Lighthouse materials and resources. "It was a very competitive process," said Peggy Kubert, ELH Executive Director. "We are proud to have won this grant, and to be able to provide information and tools to help communities deal with adolescent depression.

Press Release (PDF) | Evanston Community Foundation

The Score's In:
Erika's Lighthouse - 1, Stigma - Zip

It was a bad day for stigma.

Photo courtesy Robin Subar

Picture it. Almost 700 friends of Erika's Lighthouse Foundation, sporting bright orange t-shirts, cutting a 2-mile swath through Hubbard Woods, Sheridan Road, Downtown Winnetka and back to Hubbard Woods Park. Balloons, pets and dozens of informational signs designed to educate, inform, remind, and encourage people everywhere to "get depression out of the dark" by blasting stigma.