SAY San Diego:
Leading Mental Wellness
in Our Community
The WellSpring Initiative:
Leading Mental Wellness
in Our Community
Mental Health Care Shouldn’t Have a Waiting List
In a region as resourceful as Greater San Diego, no one should wait months for mental health care. SAY San Diego has united civic leaders, corporate partners, and your neighbors in a combined effort to provide immediate, permanent mental health support for our children and families.
When we look out for one another, all of San Diego rises. Join us in ensuring that every neighbor has a reliable path to a brighter, more stable future.
Goal:
Raise $2 million to create an enduring source of support that provides 1,300 therapy sessions annually for children, youth, and families across San Diego.
Meeting a CRITICAL COMMUNITY need
Families across our region continue to face rising mental health challenges alongside academic pressures, economic stress, and social isolation. For many, timely, affordable, and community-informed therapy is difficult to access—especially for children and caregivers who may already be navigating trauma, housing instability, or family disruption
Too often, families are pushed into a “spin-cycle” of care—short-term, crisisdriven support that starts and stops without continuity—rather than the steady, relationship-based services that drive lasting progress. Without early intervention and consistent support, these challenges can escalate, affecting school attendance, learning, relationships, and long-term health.
They need WellSpring: a permanent safety net of reliable, evidence-based care that ensures no family has to navigate the journey to wellness alone.
Our promise is to support children, youth, and families in healing and growing stronger together, creating a community where every individual has the opportunity to thrive.
Your Impact, Doubled
Your investment in San Diego’s future goes twice as far. Through a generous 1-to-1 Match, every dollar you contribute to the WellSpring Initiative is matched by SAY San Diego, instantly doubling the resources available for children, youth, and families in our community. Together, we are building a $2 million initiative to ensure that high-quality, evidence-based mental health care remains a permanent reality for our neighbors.
THE IMPACT OF WellSpring
The WellSpring Initiative is a sustainable funding effort to strengthen and expand SAY San Diego’s mental health services. We don't just provide short-term relief; we provide a reliable safety net of evidence-based care designed to help families break cycles of trauma and instability for generations.
Provides 1,300 therapy sessions annually and in perpetuity for children, youth, and families, utilizing SAY's staff of 14 community-trained therapists who live and work in San Diego.
Delivers mental health services across 20 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 4 high schools in the San Diego Unified School District, as well as 20 additional after-school programs.
Offers individualized, evidence-based therapy, including CBT, mindfulness, family systems approaches, and more.
Keeps care accessible with a $10 co-pay per session, helping remove cost as a barrier to treatment
How the WellSpring Initiative Works
To demonstrate our deep commitment and ensure the long-term stability of this vital resource, the SAY San Diego Board of Directors has authorized a one-time investment of $100,000 from SAY’s savings to permanently launch the WellSpring Fund.
Now, we invite you, donors, partners, and friends, to stand with us.
Double your impact and help us reach our immediate goal of $200,000 to ensure mental health and wellness are community priorities – not privileges.
Your donation will directly disrupt cycles of need, having a ripple effect of well-being. By supporting this initiative, the youth of San Diego will grow healthier, more resilient, and equipped to build a stronger, more stable future for their families and our entire community.
Leave a lasting impact on San Diego today.
United for Change: Our Foundational Partners
The WellSpring Initiative is a movement backed by San Diego’s most trusted civic and corporate leaders. We are proud to celebrate the visionary partners who provided the initial $800,000 in commitments to launch this fund, including:
- SAY San Diego
- The California Wellness Foundation
- California Health Care Foundation
- Christopher Weil & Co.
- CMR Risk & Insurance Services, Inc.
- Rob Gaan
- The Irvine Foundation
- San Diego District Attorney’s Office
- Torrey Pines Bank
"This is a profound story of a region coming together to champion the vulnerable. This fund is a statement from our community partners that we are willing to stand shoulder-to-shoulder to create a more equitable San Diego."
— Louie Nguyen, CEO, SAY San Diego