About the Jacob Crouch Foundation

Over the course of the 2006 Memorial Day weekend, the first annual Crouch Stock featured five Acadiana area bands, mouth watering food and an assortment of outdoor activities for people of all ages. To our most humble amazement, we doubled our goal in donations! We proudly announced that the Jacob Crouch Foundation had earned over $30,000 in donations!

There was sweat from the intense Cajun dancing, tears of memories past and, most importantly, hope for what the Jacob Crouch Foundation can do for our community! From the outpouring of generosity we received in support of Jacob’s cause, we now know that we can move mountains! We will rely on Crouchstock to be the largest event sponsored by the Foundation because it revolves around our most important message: LIFE IS GOOD. The Foundation will host/co-host numerous events for people from all walks of life so that the World can realize that there is no problem too big or any situation too difficult worth resorting to suicide. We mobilized into what we now proudly call the Jacob Crouch Foundation.

The invisible nature of depression and suicide didn’t give us the chance to tell Jacob how much he meant to each of us before he left. Through our unrelenting commitment to his Foundation, we tell him every day that he is forever a part of us and that his name and his memory will change the lives of many.

Currently, we are working side by side with the Lafayette Parish School Board in order to incorporate suicide prevention and awareness programs into our local K-12 school district. Five members of our Board of Trustees just returned from Washington DC, in which they attended a luncheon with Senator Patrick Kennedy regarding potential suicide prevention and awareness grant money being awarded to our foundation.

While in Washington DC, we also met with some of our local state representatives. Which include Charles W. Boustany, Jr., M.D., Charlie Melancon, and Bobby Jindal just to name a few. On September 5, 2006, our city parish president Joey Durel made a proclamation to insure that the week of September 10-16 be National Suicide Prevention and Awareness Week in Jacob Crouch’s memory.

Our foundation has also created a web-site, www.injacobsmemory.org, which serves not only as a data base for those who need somewhere to find information on how to get help, but also provides info on the foundation. (events calendars, donation link, ect.)

Presently, The Jacob Crouch Foundation has a few “awareness campaigns” up and running! These include our web-site campaign, billboard campaign, bar coaster campaign, bumper sticker campaign, and also our bracelet campaign. The foundation has also been in the “public eye” in a few different arenas. Our cause has been aired on our local news channel KATC 3. The foundation has also been featured in articles in The Daily Advertiser, our local community newspaper.