Adam's Apples Foundation
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Mission Statement
Connecting school aged youth, one conversation at a time.
About This Cause
Adam’s Apples Foundation is a non-profit organization established to address and prevent mental health issues facing youth today. AAF facilitates connection and mental health literacy programming in our schools by encouraging interpersonal communication, understanding, and education among teens and pre-teens. What began in 2016 with a single bowl of apples offering students a healthy snack, quickly evolved to become a key gathering place for students to connect, socialize, and converse. From this ‘seed’ has grown comprehensive mental health literacy programming, developed in partnership with the University of British Columbia, designed to help students gain mental health knowledge and peer support competencies. Today, with a passionate and respected team of educators, healthcare professionals, and business leaders, the Foundation operates in 27 schools and community centres in Burnaby, Delta, Richmond, Surrey, and Vancouver, with demand to expand the program. Adam’s Apples Foundation was created to honour the legacy of Adam Hryhorchuk, who passed away from an accidental drug overdose on September 20, 2013 at the age of 22. Adam had a very special quality: he was genuinely interested in every person he met - every person’s story mattered to him. Adam gave a hand-up to kids who weren’t in in sync with the crowd and he understood how isolation could impact his peers. From this tragedy has come a deep desire to connect with youth, because as Adam so clearly demonstrated, every person has a story that needs to be heard... even if only for a few minutes a day. Adam’s mother, Darcy Hibberd, started Adam’s Apples Foundation to bring her son’s effusive personality and nurturing nature to adolescents in need of guidance and support. Placing a simple bowl of “Adam’s Apples” into an inclusive space for youth to connect evolved into a mission to educate youth on the importance of connection and conversation between peers through the Core Connector Initiative.