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HOME | ABOUT PATRICK | SCHOLARSHIP | FUNDRAISING EVENTS | MERCHANDISE | SUPPORT GROUP | SUICIDE AWARENESS

 

 

 
 

Mission Statement

It is the goal of the Patrick M. D’Aliso Foundation to seek to honor young men who have successfully competed on the athletic field, in the classroom and in society with the highest level of deportment. Two scholarships will be available each year to graduating Senior wrestlers, who will be attending accredited four-year colleges or universities. The Patrick M. D’Aliso Foundation will also provide financial support to accredited suicide awareness and prevention programs, focused on assisting teenagers.

 

     

     
 

Donation Information

Donations can be made payable to PMD Foundation & mailed to

PMD Foundation
84 Walton Terrace
Monroe, NY 10950
Tax ID# 203-938-124

 

     

PMD Foundation Board Members

President: Tom Kennedy
Vice President: Patrick D’Aliso Sr.
Treasurer: Kristi D’Aliso
Secretary: Jodi Fischbein

 

News
PMD Foundation to host “Out of the Darkness” Community Walk Sunday, October 4, 2009
6:00AM – 10:00AM
Monroe-Woodbury High School, Central Valley, NY
Details Coming Soon!

By walking in the Out of the Darkness Community Walks to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), you will be walking with thousands of people nationwide to raise money for AFSP's vital research and education programs to prevent suicide and save lives, increase national awareness about depression and suicide, and assist survivors of suicide loss.

WALK TO HONOR A LOVED ONE...Many of our participants walk in memory of a loved one lost to suicide. AFSP provides opportunities for survivors of suicide loss to get involved through a wide variety of educational, outreach, awareness, advocacy and fundraising programs. Each walk site has its own unique remembrance activity in which you can participate to honor a loved one.

WALK TO RAISE AWARENESS... AFSP funds research aimed at improving our understanding of suicide and ways to prevent it as well as educational activities to increase awareness about prevention, warning signs and the psychiatric illnesses that can lead to suicide.

Contact Information

For all inquires please call 845.492.1251 or fill out our Contact Page.

 

 

To view or order photos from the PMD Annual Golf outings, please visit

http://pmdgolf.shutterfly.com/

 

 

Signs of Concern

1. 
Talking about suicide.


2.  Making statements about feeling hopeless, helpless,or worthless.

3.  A deepening depression.

4.  Preoccupation with death.

5.  Taking unnecessary risks or exhibiting self-destructive behavior.

6.  Out of character behavior.

7.  A loss of interest in the things one cares about.

8.  Visiting or calling people one cares about.

9.  Making arrangements, setting one’s affairs in order.

10.  Giving prized possessions away.

     
 
THE SILENT EPIDEMIC OF YOUTH SUICIDE



 
  • Suicide ranks as the THIRD leading cause of death for ages 15-24 and FOURTH for ages 10-14.

 
  • Suicide is the SECOND leading cause of death for our college age youth as well as for ages 15 to 19, in many states.

 
  • NHSDA Report / SAMHSA (US Dept. of Health) – In 2000, over ONE million youth attempted suicides in the U.S. That equates to over 2700 attempts each day in our nation by youth, ages 12 to 17.

 
  • Each week in our nation, we lose approximately 100+ young people to suicide.

 
Even though white males make up the majority of completed suicides, from 1980-1995, suicide among black youth, ages 10-14 increased 233% and in black youth, ages 15-19, suicide rates increased 126%. For black youth in the Southern region of the nation, there was an increase of 214%.

 
In the past forty years, youth suicide rates have almost tripled. Between 1980 and 1996, suicide rates for ages 10 to 14 increased by over 100%.

 
More teenagers and young adults have died of suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease COMBINED.

 
According to the APA, four out of five people who attempt suicide have given clear warnings.
 
   

 

 



Saturday, July 25


Sunday, February 17
Scholarship Application: 


Wednesday, April 25
Orange County Choppers to benefit suicide prevention foundation



By
     April 25, 2007

Patrick would have loved this bike.

A sleek, custom-built Orange County Choppers number decked out in Monroe-Woodbury High School's trademark purple, just like his wrestling singlet.

On the bike, there are insignias with the initials PMD — his initials.
In a way, it is his bike.

But he will never get to ride it.

Patrick Michael D'Aliso — star high school wrestler, honors student, son of Monroe-Woodbury's winning football coach, all-American boy — committed suicide on May 19, 2004, at the age of 16.

The bike that bears Patrick's initials was designed by OCC's Paul Teutul Jr. and recently built as the centerpiece of a fundraising raffle to benefit the D'Aliso family's charitable foundation, which also bears Patrick's name. It's bittersweet because the teen loved watching Teutul and the rest of the OCC crew on the TV show, "American Chopper."

Patrick's death blindsided those nearest and dearest to him, and left his tightknit family wondering why. But they can't dwell on questions that have no answers.

Though the D'Alisos will never know why Patrick killed himself, what is certain is that they don't want Patrick's death to overshadow his life, or to have any mom, dad, sister or brother go through what they're enduring in the wake of Patrick's death. It is out of this philosophy that the Patrick M. D'Aliso Foundation was born.

The foundation funds scholarships for local high school athletes who embody Patrick's ideals. It also lends financial support to suicide awareness and prevention programs for teenagers, pushing an often taboo topic out to the forefront.

"If I can save one kid, it's all worth it," says Kristi Salmon, the foundation's treasurer and Patrick's older sister. "Patrick was the No. 1 person in my life."

Salmon says she was like a second mother to her baby brother, eight years her junior. She attended all his wrestling matches and was the go-to person if he couldn't talk to their mom and dad.

"I'm not the same person I was before Patrick died," she says. "You don't worry about the trivial things. Life becomes about surviving every day."

Skipping the traditional tossing of the bouquet at her wedding last year, she placed the flowers on her brother's grave instead. It was her way of making him a part of the important day, of remembering him.

And she wants others to remember, too. "It can happen to anyone," she says.

The benefit bike will serve as a very visible reminder of that as it makes its way to events all over the area. Beginning April 16, the $80,000 chopper will be on display at the OCC retail store in Montgomery. From there, Salmon is working on having it displayed at various local malls, bike rallies and summer fairs.

She's sure Patrick would be pleased.

"I think he's looking down on us and he's proud of what we're doing," his sister says.

Raffle tickets are on sale now for the Patrick M. D'Aliso Foundation's custom chopper. Tickets are $20 each and benefit the foundation's work.

To purchase tickets, get a better look at the bike, or to find out more information about the foundation, its mission and its support group, log on to   www.patrickmdalisofoundation.org.

The raffle will continue into August and culminate with a two-day autograph signing on Aug. 25 and 26 — part of the festivities for the three-year anniversary of Orange County Choppers' retail store on Route 17K in Montgomery. The winning ticket will be drawn by an OCC celebrity at 4 p.m. Aug. 26.



Monday, June 25
2007 Golf Outing



 
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