Dear Runners and Friends,

As many of you know, the Israeli NEABPD (National Educational Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder) is fielding its second marathon team in this year’s Jerusalem Marathon, which will take place on March 15, 2019. Please join us in running or supporting one of our runners in the following tracks: Community (800 m), Family (1.7 km), 5 km race, 10 km race, Half-Marathon, Marathon.

Our organization was founded in 2016 by a dynamic group of family members and clinicians, who have personal experience with BPD and severe emotional dysregulation.

Through our website, peer-to-peer counseling, and public events, we not only provide information and skills to hundreds of members of the public yearly but also increase awareness and understanding among mental health professionals, working at Maccabi (Raanana), Maane (Youth Development Division, Jerusalem Municipality), and Magen, among others.

For family members, we run the internationally renowned Family Connections program, which provides knowledge about the disorder and its treatment and teaches Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills. By helping family members “put on their oxygen masks first,” we empower them, helping them better understand and cope with the challenges they face, so that they can enhance the quality of their own lives and reduce their loved ones’ suffering.

Over the last two years, we have run ten Family Connection groups (each one running weekly for twelve weeks) in English and Hebrew, in the Mercaz and the Jerusalem regions and spoken at many professional gatherings. With over 250 graduates, our groups for family members and seminars for mental health professionals have impacted directly on the lives of thousands of people.

By choosing to run for the NEABPD, Israel, or support our runners you will enable us to run more groups and seminars and create specialty programs. You will help us to expand beyond the center of the country and translate and disseminate more material in Hebrew so that both clinicians and the general public can be better trained and informed.

By registering with the NEABPD, Israel team on the Jerusalem Marathon website you will receive a 10% reduction for running: https://jerusalem-marathon.com/Register.aspx Please enter our code—neabpdisrael—to join our team.

If you raise 750 NIS or more by running for our organization, we’ll also refund you your registration fee (between 100-300 NIS depending on the chosen track).

Once you have registered, please contact us and we will help you set up a personal webpage to attract sponsors.

For more information about us, please visit our website, www.neabpd.co.il, or contact us at Office@neabpd.co.il or 0523791720.

Yours sincerely,

Meshulam Gotlieb

Co-Founder NEABPD, Israel