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Our Causes: Making a Difference Where It Matters Most

We're devoted to addressing critical challenges in mental health, addiction recovery, and cancer research. We aim to provide hope, resources, and tangible solutions to those in need.

Where We Focus Our Impact

The Swanson Calderon Foundation directs its resources toward two urgent areas of human need:
global mental health access and cancer research and innovation.

Both missions reflect the values, work, and legacy of those whose lives inspired the creation of the Foundation.  Both represent areas where millions are suffering in silence, either because care is unavailable, unaffordable, or inaccessible.

Our commitment is to bridge those gaps with compassion, innovation, and responsibility.

Expanding Access to Mental-Health Support

Because no one should suffer alone.

Mental health challenges affect people in every country, every demographic, and every income level, yet access to support remains deeply divided.

In many regions, there are no mental-health professionals available.  In others, care exists but the cost is prohibitive; and, in too many communities, stigma keeps people silent until the crisis becomes unbearable.

We are committed to changing that.

Through the development and deployment of world-class patent-filed technology, our mental-health and coaching platform, we aims to:

  • Provide affordable, stigma-free support for individuals who cannot access therapy.

  • Offer tools and guided conversations based on science, compassion, and cultural sensitivity.

  • Serve as a bridge, not a replacement, for mental health professionals.

  • Support families, caregivers, and individuals who otherwise would have nowhere to turn.

Mental health is not optional.
Mental health is not a privilege.
Mental health is a human right.

Our work aims to help reach masses of people who need it most, not just those who can afford it.

How We Help

MyTherapist is the flagship initiative of the Swanson Calderon Foundation — a digital mental-health and emotional support platform designed to reach individuals who lack access to traditional care. Built with clinical insight, cultural sensitivity, and scalable technology, MyTherapist ensures that support is no longer limited by geography, cost, or stigma.

MyTherapist delivers accessible tools and guided emotional support in over 70 languages, making it one of the most globally inclusive mental-wellness platforms available. This linguistic range allows users to engage in the language they think in, feel in, and suffer in — a critical element for true emotional connection and healing.

The platform provides:

  • Evidence-informed coping strategies

  • Guided self-reflection and supportive dialogue

  • Tools for anxiety, trauma, loss, and stress

  • Daily check-ins to track mood and mental health

  • Culturally appropriate and adaptive communication styles

  • Age-appropriate communication for children, teens, adults, and seniors

MyTherapist is not positioned as a replacement for licensed professionals — but rather as a bridge, offering immediate support while reducing the barriers that prevent individuals from seeking care. For many, this may be the first time they feel heard, understood, or supported.

Through donor support, we offer free and subsidized access to individuals, schools, clinics, shelters, and underserved communities. Every sponsored user helps break the cycle of silence and isolation that often surrounds mental-health struggle.

Our mission is simple yet urgent:

To make mental-health support accessible to every human being — no matter where they live, what language they speak, or what they can afford.

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