4th annual JCK Foundation Softball Game

As you know from last year, every year we set up a charity softball tournament to honor our dear friend John Kelly. John passed away at the tender age of 24 in 2011 after a long battle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Last year, we started the JCK Foundation in John's honor and this year we officially became a 501 (c)(3) organization! The foundation was founded, is run and organized entirely by John's friends, and the president and co-president are 24 and 27 years old respectively.
 
Over the past year, we have spoke at Colgate University, the International OCD Conference in Atlanta, and are heading to UCONN, the University of Miami and the 2014 OCD Conference next week in Los Angeles to speak and spread John's story. Our goal is to use his story "to raise public awareness about the paralyzing effects of the brain disorder known as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and other mental disorders. By sharing the personal story of one man’s courageous battle with the disease, the JCK Foundation works to educate communities that OCD and mental disorders are more than an annoying habit but a brain disorder that can consume an individual’s thoughts, actions, and decisions We want to use John’s story to eliminate the stigma and create freedom of expression for the mental disorder community."
 
The Legends Softball tournament is our big fundraiser. We expect to have 120 young adults gather at Scenic Hudson Park in Irvington for the 4th annual tournament in a day that truly remembers John's incredible and infectious spirit. The event was previously held at Gould Park in Dobbs Ferry. However, we decided to expand the event this year and we expect to have participents from not only the Rivertowns, but throughout the state, and many of John's friends are travelling back to Dobbs Ferry for this event which is a homecoming of sorts!