Leadership
Meet Our Passionate Team
Board Members
Gavin Ward
Luke Tharasri
President & CEO
Maximon Behavioral Health
Dr. Patrick Sullivan
Chris Wheeler
Melanie Pignotti
Dr. Terence Chiramel
Chris Ward
Jason Lee
Advisory council
Jacques Dallaire
President
Performance Prime
John McFadden
Community Liaison
Patrick Wood
Veteran Sports Marketer / Educator / Advocate for Mental Wellness
Founders
Jim & Diana Missig
FOUNDERS
Our Core Values
Racing For Mental Health is committed to destigmatizing mental health and transforming the conversation around it. By being a voice and standing up to better educating our society, we can eliminate the mental health stigma along with fears of seeking treatment. Through our activism, we seek to change society for the better.
Racing For Mental Health stands for the following core values:
Inclusion
Removing barriers to equal access and opportunities
Empowerment
Enabling everyone to live their lives to the fullest
Activism
Vigorously campaigning to bring about social change
Social Justice
Fairness for all without discrimination and intolerance
The Mission
To spread public awareness with emphasis on destigmatizing mental health for the well-being of all people through normalizing conversations, public education, research, advocacy, and direct services.
The Vision
A world where the mental health stigma has been abolished, in which all communities have equitable opportunity for mental health and well-being — enabling people to flourish and live with purpose and meaning.
The Goal
To create transformative change, and to make a substantive difference in the lives of all who suffer from mental health issues.