With the end of 2025 and the start of a new year, we have much to be thankful for.
- In 2025 we produced a 2-week run of the one-woman show BIPOLAR & THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, created and performed by Julie Ridge, at Theater Row, Off Off Broadway in New York City. Although the run was brief, we feel fortunate to have been reviewed by Talkin’ Broadway and Stage and Cinema. To see their reviews, press these links: https://www.talkinbroadway.com/page/ob/12_11_25.html and https://stageandcinema.com/2025/12/12/bipolar-and-the-english-channel-review/
- Generous grants and donations from our supporters and friends covered the cost of the production.
- We presented three CONNECTING DOTS series and nearly a dozen one-day seminars – most of which were topical and new. They included: FLY ME TO THE MOON: the allure of space travel, IS IT LIVE or IS IT AI, and WE ARE MORE THAN OUR WORST DAY: about life in prison.
- We hosted several brand new participants, thanks to your referrals.
The Frank Ridge Memorial Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and serves the community and mental health practitioners. I am tremendously grateful to the hundreds of mental health professionals who have elected to earn literally thousands of continuing education contact hours year after year by taking our seminars, and to the hundreds of supporters who have kept us alive with their generous donations and grants.
As we enter our 13th year, we continue to create and facilitate topical new seminars; find inspiring & trailblazing movies as the springboard for lively conversation; and continue to bring our one-woman show BIPOLAR & THE ENGLISH CHANNEL and the short documentary BREATHE to communities across America. For updates on our latest work, please check out our REGISTRATION FOR EVENTS & SEMINARS page.
The short doc BREATHE – directed by Zac Norrington – was presented at the prestigious ReelAbilities 2023 Film Festival, has been a semi-finalist & award winner at nearly 20 international film festivals, and won Best Short Documentary at the Annual Greenwich Village Film Festival.
The Frank Ridge Memorial Foundation, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board’s Office of the Professions as an approved provider of Continuing Education contact hours (CEs) for all NY licensed Social Workers (#SW-0096), Mental Health Counselors (#MHC-0010), Marriage & Family Therapists (#MFT-0014), Psychoanalysts (#P-0018), creative arts therapists (#CAT-0065), and Psychologists (#PSY-0009). For more information about Continuing Education go to the New York State Office of the Profession’s website at: www.op.nysed.gov/prof/. Click on your profession’s Continuing Education tab for more information.
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