Our Mission
Footnotes Trauma Foundation financially supports mental health care at Footnotes Counseling Services for sexual abuse survivors and military veterans.
Need
Trauma is defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience. Traumatic events, such as abuse, disasters, accidents, and combat, affect a person physically, psychologically, and socially. Symptoms plaguing a traumatized person include depression, anxiety, insomnia, isolation, guilt, shame, nightmares, delusion, hallucinations and physical complications, leaving deep negative effects on the closest and most important relationships.
Financial barriers impede access to high quality, long-term, trauma centered, mental health care. The high cost of care can be detrimental to individuals and families.
In today’s society, stigma can be another barrier. Stigma is defined as a mark of shame or discredit. Some effects of stigma include strain on relationships, reluctance to seek help, harassment, and self doubt.
It is up to us! Together we can change the attitude toward mental health issues and reduce the financial burden that plague high risk individuals. These issues coupled with the trauma itself trigger the immediate call for financial assistance for those in need.
Service
Footnotes Trauma Foundation partners with Footnotes Counseling Services in response to the community need for high-quality, trauma-informed care, targeting the roots of mental health symptoms and helping real people obtain real help in a Christ-centered, attachment-oriented framework.
Footnotes Trauma Foundation and Footnotes Counseling Services are dedicated to the deep work that helps clients climb out of crisis mode and rebuild a healthy lifestyle and relationships despite the ability to pay for healthcare. With highly trained and well educated counselors, Footnotes is able to offer solid hope through advanced therapy to promote healing.
Trauma survivors have the right and option to health, wholeness and healing. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of the options Footnotes offers to help aid in trauma recovery. Please read more about the EMDR method at http://www.emdrhap.org/content/about/what-is-emdr/
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MEET OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Derick Lyngholm
Derick serves as Director at Large for the Footnotes Trauma Foundation. He is a professor of Communications and the head Men’s Soccer Coach at Bethany Lutheran College.
Mary Kay Mages
Mary Kay serves as a legal consultant for Footnotes Trauma Foundation as well as Director at Large. She is an attorney at Blethen Berens. She specializes in estates planning, real estate, commercial and agricultural law, and charitable gift planning.
Ben Lundsten
Ben serves as Director at Large for the Footnotes Trauma Foundation. He is an Assistant Professor in the Media Arts Department at Bethany Lutheran College and has a talent for marketing, website development, and branding.
Tristan Wiechmann
Tristan serves as Treasurer for the Footnotes Trauma Foundation. She is the practice manager at Kalina Dental. Although Tristan is a licensed dental hygienist at heart, her roles in her professional and personal life have given her the abilities to navigate an umbrella of duties.
Jerris Barents
Jerris serves as Secretary for the Footnotes Trauma Foundation.
MEET OUR STAFF
Joann DeMerit
Joann serves as Executive Director for the Footnotes Trauma Foundation. She has a unique understanding and passion for our trauma scholarship recipients because she also provides movement therapy at Footnotes Counseling Services through its innovative Breath En’Motion program. Originally from the Seattle area, Joann and her husband raised two sets of twins in Wisconsin before relocating to Madison Lake, MN to begin the “empty nest” stage of life.
Galen Holzhueter
Galen serves as the President of Footnotes Trauma Foundation.
Emeline Gullixson
Emeline serves as Footnotes’ Mission Advancement Director.