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Dear Friend,

Jason was my youngest son. He was an average 16-year old. He got mostly B’s on his report card, and he loved sports. Especially football. He was active in a youth group and he had a lot of friends. Jason was the one who was always up for going places and trying new things. From all appearances...my son loved life.

But on July 16, 1997, he placed a .38 caliber pistol to his head and pulled the trigger. I was the one who opened the door to his room and stumbled over his body. Believe me when I say, there are no words to describe that kind of pain.

In trying to come to terms with what happened, I began researching teen suicide. The statistics are alarming, but my research also gave me hope because it showed me that teen suicide can be prevented.

That’s what The Jason Foundation is all about. I urge you to get involved. Together we can help stop this epidemic. Ask for our material. Read it. Then share it with your friends and others. Please help us reach out to hurting teens with another choice - another way to handle life’s problems, pressures and disappointments.

I will never hug my son again. But I can and will work alongside you -- perhaps to save your neighbor’s child, a relative or even your own son or daughter.

Thank you for your help.

Clark Flatt
President / CEO
The Jason Foundation, Inc.




 


The Jason Foundation Would Like to Recognize its Past Partners for
Their Financial Support...
Joe C. Davis Foundation
The Memorial Foundation
HCA Foundation
TriStar Health Systems
William B. Stokely Foundation
O’Charley’s
United Way of Sumner County/
& Nashville
Landmark Foundation
City of Hendersonville
Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Webster’s Excavating
Ezell Foundation
Martin Foundation
Tennessee Dept. of Mental Health
Odom Foundation
The Mick Foundation
Volunteer State Bank
Black Eyed Pea USA
 
 
 
...and the many other individual and business/corporate supporting sponsors that have made our programs possible.

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Disclaimer:

Although The Jason Foundation, Inc., makes every effort to insure its programs are well formatted and directly address the problem of teen suicide, we recognize that there is no one way to combat the problem. Our programs promote awareness and cannot, therefore, guarantee the prevention of suicides or suicide attempts. Professional help should always be sought whenever there is a possibility of suicidal ideation. Never try to solve this type of problem without obtaining professional help.

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If at any time the terms and conditions of this Agreement are no longer acceptable to you, you should immediately cease all use of the Web Site.

Privacy Policy:

1. Data collected by this web site may be used internally by The Jason Foundation Inc. Names or other personally identifiable information will not be published by The Jason Foundation Inc. except as it relates to it's obvious intended use (a letter of endorsement, for example).

2. Information collected by The Jason Foundation Inc. may be used for purposes other than what it is obviously intended for and stated for. An example of this is using seminar or material requests to determine the level of topical interest in a given geographical area. Names or other personally identifiable information would not be used in this type of "data mining".

3. We Will Not GIVE, SELL, TRADE, SHARE or SHOW any information provided to us by our visitors and clients, to anyone outside of The Jason Foundation Inc. (We will surrender information if we are forced to do so by an authoritative court or government).

4. Currently, our site does not use any "Cookies" at all, or any other form of tracking with the following exceptions:
Page Counters
Web Server Statistics
" Cookies" are small text files a web domain (or web site) can use to recognize repeat users, facilitate the user's ongoing access to and use of the site and allow a site to track usage behavior and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto a user's system and damage files. If we should begin to use cookies, they will work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the jasonfoundation.com domain.

5. If ever our privacy policy changes, we will post the new policy here and notice of the change on our "News and Announcements" page. Upon a user's request, The Jason Foundation Inc. will use commercially reasonable efforts to functionally delete the user and his or her personal information from its database; however, it may be impossible to delete a user's record without some residual information because of backups, and records of deletions. In no case will information be transmitted outside of The Jason Foundation Inc. unless we are forced to do so by an authoritative court or government. This policy is to protect the privacy of our guests and users.

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