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Kim Turner

Kim Turner

Executive Director and co-founder of Patrick's Purpose Foundation, a Newport Beach nonprofit promoting teen mental wellness, founded after the loss of her son Patrick to suicide in 2018.

Sep 23, 2026

29:52
Would you mind sharing what Patrick's Purpose is and what it's done for people thus far?
29:58
Sure.
30:00
We knew that we wanted to do something to sort of honor him.
30:05
And I think our daughter actually came up with the idea of giving scholarships to kids graduating high school who plan to go to a community college or a trade school.
30:13
Because that path in our high-achieving community is not always very well celebrated.
30:19
I've heard of kids who, on the day where everybody goes to wear your T-shirt on what college you're going to attend, I've heard kids who aren't going to a four-year school just don't even want to go to school that day.
30:29
So we decided that we were going to give scholarships and we're going to make it a super simple application.

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44:43
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