Half a Sorrow Foundation

We improve mental health for individuals and organizations by promoting real conversations. Our four pillars are programming, advocacy, storytelling, and training. Yes, that does spell PAST and we are focused on helping people move forward---past suicide---and on to living. Our founder, Dennis Gillan is an ordinary guy with an extraordinary story of loss, perseverance, and healing. Dennis helps tear down the walls of silence which have surrounded the issues of mental health, depression, and suicide. He infuses his passion and humor into a tough subject that touches everyone in the audience. Dennis Gillan is a national thought leader on Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Advocacy and the Executive Director of the Half A Sorrow Foundation. He travels internationally speaking, raising awareness, and opening up the mental health conversation. Dennis has been deeply touched by suicide after the losses of two of his brothers to suicide 11 years apart. After years of sitting on the sidelines, he jumped into helping those in need by working on the suicide prevention hotline and this started him down the path of healing.