Our Founder and President, Gary McCabe & Board Member Ernie Corrigan, wrote an article for the December 2021 issue of Wellesley Living Well Magazine about A Path in the Woods Foundation. Read a little below:
A few years after the loss of their son Dan to suicide in 2007 just months before his expected graduation from Wellesley High School, the McCabe family, with the help of their friends decided to be public about their son’s death and his lasting impact on them and others. They started A Path in the Woods Foundation to focus on the needs of young adults who are struggling with mental health issues that are more complex and lasting than the academic or social struggles that most teens find their way through.
Creating the Foundation began as a response to their personal and painful experience of profound grief and loss. “The mission as a foundation, in large part, was the mission of the family that was left behind,” Gary McCabe recalls. “We were trying to understand why our family was no longer whole and why other Wellesley families were feeling the same pain, and why were we so helpless to do anything about it.”