Christmas and Thanksgiving Holidays are a time to reflect on our lives, a time to serve those less fortunate in our community, a time to give back and give thanks for all our blessings. However, for those dealing with family mental health issues or grieving over loved ones, it can be an especially difficult time of year. We have experienced trauma in our own family this past year, losing our son in this life, Grant Sanders Hill.

Grant was an extraordinary young man in every way at 26 years old, with a 6-7 tall 350lb frame, Alabama SEC Champion, All-American football awards, and national champion track and field honors. Grant set aside NFL and Olympic Team opportunities to instead focus on sharing his faith in Christ and counseling trauma damaged and mentally challenged youth as his life mission and crusade.

Grant Hill had a lifetime dream of changing the mental health care culture and building a Christ-centered mental health care facilities for leaders, athletes and youth needing help in life’s many transitions.

The Hill Family Foundation along with The Grant Hill Memorial Fund are committed to realizing this dream and advancing our dream of quality, Christ-centered, accessible mental health care. Below you will learn all the ways we have begun and will continue on this mission together with the continued encouragement and support from people like you.

Kids To Love Grant Hill Mental Wellness Team – Hill Foundation recently teamed with Kids to Love through a $250,000 commitment to build a Madison, Alabama Mental Wellness Facility. Counselors and mental health experts are now in the selection process to serve at the Madison facility which breaks ground in February 2023. Your contributions will help expand the staff serving the “Grant Hill Wellness Team” with our goal of 10-12 staff in the near term, along with establishing a center in downtown Huntsville to be close to Huntsville City schools. Our vision is a network of professionals which transform the current limited access mental health care culture by sharing information to enable long term healing.

Christ Health Faith-Based Counselor Training – Hill Foundation funded Christ Health and Live Oaks Mental Health Clinic $100,000 to train mental health care professionals on Christ-centered mental health counseling and out-patient recovery. Christ Health has already began filming for construction of 20 master class counseling series to help provide elite mental health care for those ages 12-25 years in age. Our goal is to work closely with Huntsville City Schools, State funded and private health care individuals to provide a network of mental health care professionals to meet the needs of the North Alabama community.

Cherokee Ridge Fundraiser: The First Annual Grant Hill Memorial Golf Tournament was held on 20 May 2022 at Cherokee Ridge with over 200 entries. The event raised $30,0000 for North Alabama Mental Health Care and Training for Mental Health Professionals, with an additional $13,600 from online donations. We thank all the volunteers from Hill Technical Solutions (HTS) and those helping to make the event a great success. Please mark your calendars, the 2nd Annual Grant Hill Memorial Fundraiser event is scheduled for 09 June 2023 at Cherokee Ridge.

Hill Family Foundation especially thanks the following key sponsors: (Platinum) DC Capital Partners, Willbrook Solutions, and Twickehnam Advisors; (Gold) – Pipaya, Kroll, and Crimson Tide Foundation; (Silver) – Torch Technologies, Iron Mountain Solutions, Mission Driven Research, Cintel Inc., Mark Jackson Law Firm, Radiance Technologies, Intrepid, and Morell Engineering. We recognize special sponsorships from CFD Research, and Freedom Real Estate and Capital (Lunch), SIGMATECH (Breakfast), Mauldin and Jenkins (Snack), and the following team and event sponsors: Parsons Corporation, MTSI, PeopleTec, Indus Technology, Trideum, KODA Technologies, State Farm-Joe Demos, Blue Halo, Ajosta, Monte Sano Research Corporation, Penta Research Inc., Qualis Corporation, T&W Operations, Troy7, APEX Systems, Servis First Bank, Maxwell Carter, Hardstone Flint, and Seabrook Solutions.

College Scholarships: Hill Family Foundation presented $10,000 in college scholarships at the Huntsville High School (HHS) Senior awards day to well-deserved winners selected by the athletic department, where Grant participated as an All-American Football and Track Athlete. The Grant Hill Memorial Leadership Award recognizes student athletes who strive to be the best. The 2022 annual award winners were Aidan Tristan Moore attending UAB and Nathan Grey Moore attending Auburn University. More information can be found on the Hill Family Foundation website.

University of Alabama Huntsville (UAH) Athletics – Hill Foundation provides support to the UAH Track and Field program through a $80,000 donation for athletics department and throws coaching. The Hill family has been active volunteering with the program for many years and Grant Hill was involved with coaching UAH All-American athletes in the throws.

We hope these updates on initiatives to honor Grant Hill’s vision of advancing quality, Christ-centered mental health care through increased training, accessibility, and real recovery programs has encouraged you in this season.

To be included on future updates and for making tax deductible contributions to the Grant Hill Memorial Fund, please visit www.hillfamilyfoundation.net or click the button below. The Hill Family Foundation greatly appreciates your support and is committed to changing lives through better care.

We can accomplish this goal if we all work together as one team with a vision of better mental wellness resources for curing this terrible disease.

Please do not hesitate to call if we can help or assist you in finding care for you, your family, or a loved one needing support in the area of mental health.

Brad & Stacey Hill