Assistance for the Mulford family

Hello friends,

We've created a fundraiser to help the Mulford family.

After sixteen years overseas, Holly and Mike and their 4 girls moved to Evanston, IL in August of 2025. This transition in sixteen year old Ellie’s life combined with early childhood trauma led her to a profound depression and she’s been in mental health treatment since their return. Things with Ellie declined further near the end of last school year, necessitating intensive mental health care over this past summer. She then started a school this fall which provides specific support for teens who profoundly struggle with their mental health. Holly and Mike were hopeful this would be the change needed to really help Ellie thrive. However, a little more than two weeks ago, she went missing overnight. Because of her specific vulnerabilities, Holly and Mike quickly involved the police and had their community look for Ellie. Thankfully, she was found outside of their home 20 hours later. However since returning home, she has not been doing well and has been hospitalized. She would be best served by targeted and intensive residential treatment and the Mulfords have located an appropriate facility in Connecticut. 

The financial piece involved in all of this has been significant due to therapy copays, school tuition/fees, and attorney costs. The specific expenses we’re hoping to assist Holly and Mike with at this time are for a specialized transport team to safely take Ellie across the country from her current inpatient facility to the residential center, for transportation costs for Holly and Mike, and for their ongoing attorney costs. We chose this platform (Kindbee.com) as 100% of the money given will go directly to their family.

Thank you so much for your consideration of this! Please reach out to us (rachelevans@gmail.com and coleens@gmail.com) with any questions or if we can clarify anything.

Rachel and Coleen