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CenterPointe holds fund raising gala to battle mental illness

Healthy Minds Strong Communities Gala
Thursday, September 27, 2018 | 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm |  Cornhusker Marriott, Lincoln, NE

Hundreds gathered in Lincoln Thursday night to help solve a major issue in America today; mental illness. It’s a challenge those who have mental health problems struggle to overcome, especially young adults. One mother understands that too well. Her namePlay Video

Hundreds gathered in Lincoln Thursday night to help solve a major issue in America today; mental illness. It’s a challenge those who have mental health problems struggle to overcome, especially young adults.

One mother understands that too well. Her name is Sue Klebold, mother of one of the Columbine High School shooters.

“Our youth of today are stressed and they are often in pain. They carry all kinds of burdens and secrets and bad feelings around with them,” said Klebold.

Video snippets of Sue’s interview

Since the tragedy nearly 20 years ago, sue has dedicated her life to tackle the mental health crisis, especially among America’s youth. Klebold’s focus is on young adults and parenting.

She believes parents sometimes try to do too much.

“I think as parents the thing we don’t do well is shut up and listen,” she said. “That is often my message is to try to help people understand that it’s not your role necessarily to try and make your child feel better, but just to help them feel and access what their feelings are." 

Video snippets of Sue’s interview

CenterPointe helps those debilitating mental illness get back on their feet and start down a positive path.

"We’re dealing with a very ill, very poor population that needs help, and we step in to do that,” said Topher Hansen, CEO of CenterPointe. “What we know is when you do that, people can get better.”

That’s an expensive task. A non–profit, much of CenterPointe’s money comes from government contracts, but it’s not enough to operate efficiently. Large fundraisers like Thursday night’s help.

“It really helps us make ends meet,” said Hansen. “The rates that we get are under the costs of doing business, so we have to fundraiser in order to get the ends to meet every year.”

CenterPointe has been serving southeast Nebraska for over 30 years. Each year they help up to 3,000 Nebraskans overcome their demons.

If you’d like to learn more about CenterPointe and how you can help, visit their website at https://www.centerpointe.org/welcome.html

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Hello friend!!😁 I was just curious if you think Dylan would’ve been interested in beatboxing, being he would always be whistling, humming or snapping his fingers to music in his head? Thanks!

Hey lovely 🙂 Mm.. my gut reaction is probably not because beatboxing is more often than not associated with hiphop culture, I do believe? So..not really his genre. But I mean, if he started messing around attempting some beatboxing at home on the weekend, to say the Chem Bros, I bet he’d be damn good at it and wouldn’t miss a beat. Haha.  

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hey friend! i’m really thinking of going to see sue speak in dallas as i live fairly close and i have family in the dfw area. i wanted to thank you because i never would have known about it if you hadn’t said anything. idk if i’ll have the courage to ask her to sign anything or even speak to her because… how crazy would that be? i’d be starstruck lol. it’s funny, you know, i wouldn’t care if i met like the rock or someone else super famous… but sue? i’m nervous as fuck!

Awh, that’s so great!  I’m so happy that my post has made this a possibility for you to go meet her in your neck of the woods. 🙂  And hey, don’t be nervous – after all it’s just our Momma Sue and she is a very nice and compassionate lady.  I think once you’re there listening to her voice, you’ll begin go feel at ease.  I hope you have the best time ever and please make sure to report back and let us know how it went?  🙂 

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How could you possibly know Dylan wasn’t interested in lust, or any of the other large assumptions you make about him? What a joke

Easy. Based on his own writings he continually speaks of prizing love not lust. He also speaks of attempting to abstain from masturbation and porn to suppress his lustful feelings  So, not at all an assumption since it’s from the horse’s mouth. *shrugs* Don’t get me wrong: when I say he wasn’t interested in it, I’m not saying he was immune to sexual feelings.  On the contrary, he was an ordinary teenage boy with the typical and natural physical urges as any – only he did not place value or worth on feeling horny or wanting to bed chicks.  Love was a more prized possession than mere lust.  But please, do tell us how it is that you seem to know better?  lol

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Happy October, Miss E-C! Did Eric attend the church function the night of the arrest or was he called after Dylan’s plans fell through?

Happy October to you as well. 🎃👻

How Eric and Dylan met up after the church thing was never spelled out in Sue’s book and Dylan might not have even fully explained how he ended up in Eric’s company instead of coming home with Zack. Unless someone had a cell phone (a rarity in those days) it’s possible Dylan drove over to Eric’s house if Eric wasnt at the church with them and Zack and Devon split after a feud. That’s likely how it happened.

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Hey. Firstly, I love your blog sm. secondly, I was wondering if you knew or had any idea as to what happened to the school equipment that wasn’t damaged in the shooting? I’ve just revisited the police videos and a large portion of the library computers appear to not be damaged. Also the books, shelves, chairs… tables? etc. I was wondering if they would’ve been sold off or perhaps what was salvageable kept for when the school reopened (which I doubt)? Thanks 💛💀

Thankss 🙂  Answered before here ❤

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As much as Dylan desired ‘true love’, he also seemed to valued his friendships (his remorse over his argument with Devon, trying to mediate between Eric and Brooks, his unwavering loyalty to Zack, ect.) Would he have pursued an opportunity at love had it been openly and unquestionably offered to him even if it meant upsetting a close friend?

If it was an opportunity at love with someone who had revealed their feelings for him and he felt the same way about?  Then sure, he would’ve gone for it but I think he also would’ve been very careful in how he minimized damaged with his close friend over claiming that love relationship for himself.  In other words, I don’t think he would’ve helped himself selfishly without any regard for his friend.

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That time that dylan hit the girls car or she hit him and Eric jumped out mad as hell and Dylan was calm about it. Do you think that was Dylan trying to be “accepted” by not making a big deal outbit? This might be a reach buttttt idk.

Dylan could see that the girl was upset and on the verge of tears and he was trying to smooth things over and make the situation all better by minimizing the damages done and basically he told her ‘hey don’t worry because my car has been hit before’.  I mean, he could’ve been a dick about it and got all worked up about his car getting hit but instead what happened to his car didn’t really matter to him. My feeling is that his behavior demonstrates that he felt badly over her reaction and wanted to make everything ‘okay’.   And Eric being a petty arse and getting all pissy with a girl already in tears (and feeling badly about what she’d done) certainly wasn’t helping the situation. 

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Hei precious E-C. Do you think Dylan was willful manipulative. There are a lot of people, who think that dylan was cruel and bad by playing everyone…But I think he was just really ashamed of ALL his emotions and feelings, so he played a role, because he tried to fit in somehow. But when he felt comfortable, he was also real and open…what do you think? Have a magnificent day:-*

Hi dearheart. 🙂  Teenagers can be deceptive, secretive and manipulative in general but I don’t think Dylan was intentionally manipulative to the point where you could consider him Machiavellian.  Dylan was a people pleaser and he wanted to fit in and for people to like and accept him.  I think he became shaped this way because he was gifted and desperately wanted to fit in and be seen as ‘normal’ so once he formed friendships he feared losing any of them.  Friendships defined him and buoyed his self-esteem. So I think it was like second nature for him to be rather chameleon-like in his approach with various people he had relationships with and to naturally intuit what sort of friend to be for them while in their company. He had this ability to shift gears fluidly and adopt being a certain way for one friend or friends that wouldn’t have worked in approach for another. Devon had mentioned this about him and also that Dylan never wanted to disappoint anymore. He didn’t want to rock the boat or cause unpleasant situations with people. He often found himself in the middle of other friends inability to get along.  In the process, he compromised himself, and his own personal wants and needs, feelings – particularly his negative emotions, which would get internalized and not expressed or shared with friends.  All of the disallowed expression had built up within him.  But when he was with Eric, he was able to express his compartmentalized ‘Bad Dylan’. And all of the emotions he had regularly suppressed or minimized- all the anger, resentment, jealousy and rage – he was able to not only cathartically express but also amply to great exaggeration, right alongside Eric.  In their mutual vested interest of ‘going NBK’,  the two had to be intentionally manipulative in order to achieve a means to their destructive ends. But in saying that Dylan utilized manipulation because he was working towards the planning of a surprise attack does not then define him as entirely willfully manipulative with everyone else in the entirety of his life. There are shades of grey and nuance in everyone and in oversimplifying by labeling Dylan as just a conniving manipulator and Eric as a born psychopath does nothing but reduce them into one-dimensional caricatures to which no one can understand as humanly relatable.  

Hope you’re having a magnificent weekend. ❤

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Do you know if sue is coming to the Denver/boulder area?

Sue recently spoke in Keystone CO just last month.  See here.  This speaking engagement was extremely low profile and it wasn’t really advertised around publicly.  Sadly, I think that’s because there is a concern that she’ll be received poorly and with harassment in her own state because she’ll always be scrutinized as that horrible Columbine killer’s mom. :-/  It was surprising that the engagement suddenly had just happened and so I was scrambling to report this one after-the-fact. 

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