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A Walk With Hope - 5k to Support the With Hope Amber Craig Memorial Foundation

A Walk Wiht Hope! A fundraiser walk at Orange Lutheran High School in Orange CA, on Saturday, May 9th, 2009 for With Hope - The Amber Craig Memorial Foundation.

With Hope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to suicide prevention through improving mental health support services and education in our schools and throughout our community. With Hope Foundation is committed to supporting our local schools' efforts in suicide prevention through education. We have pledged to make available, at no cost to the schools, speakers and materials to effectively educate our community's youth.

If you would like to show your support with a small donation, it would be much appreciated! Even a little bit helps! If not, that is OK too, just send your positive energy and prayers for those that feel lost!

If you would like to donate, please make any checks out to: With Hope Foundation - Tax id number 74-3151202

You can mail them to me at: Re/Max North Orange County - 1441 N. Brea Blvd, Fullerton, CA 92835

For more information on Amber's Story, The Walk, or With Hope, please visit: www.withhopefoundation.org
Thanks for your support!

Cristal Drake - Re/Max North Orange County - 714-423-7525

"Hello. I am a junior at El Dorado High School. Ms. Craig had visited my church my freshman year, Yorba Linda Friends. During my sophomore year i had always thought bout suicide and because i heard Ambers's story it made me think. I did try once and have gotten the help needed. I would just like to thank everyone working with this foundation to help suicide prevention. I think what you people do really changes lifes. I know it had changed my life and made me think twice. So thank all of you who put all your time and effort into this foundation."



Amber's Story

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We have lost on this earth a creative, beautiful, strong, loving, and, yet, deeply wounded young lady. Amber Craig took her own life on the morning of May 25, 2005. She was exactly 14 and a half years old. She selfishly took from us the pleasure of knowing and loving her. She devasted a community.

Amber was an avid soccer player, a good student, and a loving friend. She was the keeper and co-captain for her JUSA G90-A Club soccer team and

keeper for El Dorado High School. As a freshman she played varsity soccer and still had time for her family, her boyfriend and her friends. She was silly. She was bold. She was encouraging. She was determined. She was...Amber. We now know she was also profoundly sad and her one mistake (other than her final act) was that she didn't reach out for the help available. She masked her pain in the midst of all her talents. She hid her pain from a community of people who truly loved her. Amber's inability to share her pain has tragically affected those who loved her deeply. This website is dedicated to Amber and people like Amber; people who wish they could share their darkest thoughts and, for whatever reason, are unable to reach out.


Do we know why Amber took her own life? Do we know what she was thinking as she took her own life? No, we don't. We wish we could turn back time and talk to her just once more to give her a shred of hope. We wish we could turn back time and let her know how very loved she was...is. We wish we could turn back time and hear her...see her...feel her. But we can't. All we can do now is pray with hope that we can offer resources to those hurting. Please use them. Please reach out. You are important. You have something to contribute to this world. You are loved.


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Posted Monday May 04