Outhru

MISSION Empowerment through art, education, and technology. PROJECTS OuThru App – A peer-counseling network with key tools for users and moderators to track successes, symptoms and episodes. Impartment of actionable personal goal plans for those attempting to live successfully with mental health issues. OuThru Shelter App – Distribution of technology, enabling a connection to the OuThru network, to other homeless persons, and to readily available resources for the displaced (i.e, shelters, health care, food banks, job placement, etc.) Invention and distribution of state-of-the-art means of shelter, storage, electricity, water filtration, gardening, food preparation, and transportation. Volunteer opportunities for those with the desire to help. ART Building teams of artists with and without mental health issues to create meaningful, thought-provoking, and entertaining media, and to design and construct economical, socially conscious art installations. EDUCATION Educating those without how to best support those with mental health issues. Educating those with mental “illnesses” to identify their conditions and use them, instead, as strengths. Mentoring, groups, and apprenticeships, which promote art as a life-saving tool. Workshops on economics and financial management. TECHNOLOGY Establishing a network of developers to catalyze social action. Creating apps, websites, networks, games, installations, and contraptions to assist those with mental health issues, and to change current conceptions about the mental health community.