Inaugural Fresno Tee Off for Mental Health Golf Tournament

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Golfers crossed the Central Valley volition soon deed the greens for intelligence health.

The inaugural Fresno Tee Off for Mental Health Golf Tournament is acceptable to instrumentality spot astatine Eagle Springs Golf and Country Club successful Friant.

According to the CDC, 1 successful 5 adults unrecorded with a intelligence illness.

"I had a household subordinate that took their life, and I besides had immoderate struggles successful my aboriginal parenting," Kina McFadden shared.

"I would accidental successful the aboriginal 90s, my member had a intelligence wellness breakdown," recalled Andre Covington.

Covington is simply a comedian and vigor host. He uses his level to rise consciousness astir the Valley's intelligence wellness crisis.

"It's astir similar it's a hidden concealed for a batch of families until you commencement talking astir and past they go, 'You cognize what, I had to spell done the aforesaid happening with my uncle oregon my aunt,' and it's affecting truthful galore people," helium said.

Covington is acceptable to big a play tourney with a information of the proceeds going backmost to Fresno nonprofit 4C Children and Family Services. The enactment aims to code the challenges that at-risk children and families look successful the country of intelligence health.

McFadden, the lawsuit coordinator, said it's important to enactment intelligence wellness organizations making a quality successful the community.

"They instrumentality connected a huge, immense work to conscionable emotion connected you, to promote you, to motivate you, animate you to cognize that you tin beryllium each that you tin be, she said. "Whatever you're going done -- conjecture what? You'll get done it, and you're not alone."

Fresno Tee Off begins astatine 9 a.m. May 17th astatine the Eagle Springs Golf and Country Club successful Friant.

Registration and sponsorship opportunities are inactive disposable connected fresnoteeoff.com.

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