I wanted to make everyone aware of the organization Filling in the Gaps and Mike and Fiona Roth. Madi’s death was April 13th, 2021 and Mike and Fiona Roth lost their daughter Kaitlyn Roth just a year and a bit later. They’re advocating for better mental health care in Ontario. Madi and Kaitlyn both grew up in the Kitchener/Waterloo area. Below I have copy and pasted directly from the Filling in the Gaps website. The link is also shared below. We don’t have to look far to find more Madi’s and Kaitlyn’s. We need to support each other.
“On April 28, 2022, Kaitlyn, a third year University of Waterloo student who had dreams of working with children with special needs, died due to the disease of mental illness.
The Roths made a decision to focus on helping others right from the day of her death. They were so disappointed with the adult mental health system, that they decided to use their voice from their difficult lived experience to bring hope to others and hopefully use their story to be a vehicle for positive change. Their mantra is ‘let's make it better and not be bitter’. There are many Kaitlyns out there.”