Building Bridges for Brianna is located in York County, Pennsylvania, to help deal with and preventing suicidal and non-suicidal self-injury in members of our community. Even though we are located in York we stretch nationally with our efforts.

Building Bridges for Brianna is the creation of Matt Dorgan. Matt created the organization in response to his grief from the loss of his 15-year-old daughter Brianna Dorgan to suicide on December 3, 2020. He formed a board and team that have had similar experiences that want to work toward helping others.

“It takes a strong community foundation to build the bridge for mental health”- Matt Dorgan

Matt Dorgan wants the community to know that it’s ok to not be ok, we just can’t stay that way and he wants to build the bridge, so people don’t stay that way. Matt has said many times that we need to build the bridge to connect people that need help to the people that can give help.

The purpose of the organization is to promote suicide awareness and prevention, fund suicide awareness and prevention programs, support those in need dealing with mental health, and family support programs for families who have members dealing mental health issues.