Sheila Fine created LEAD Pittsburgh (Leading on Depression, Education, and Awareness about Depression).
When Sheila first conceived of LEAD, she was a total novice. She knew absolutely nothing about depression except that it was a condition that brought bright, articulate, and otherwise healthy people to their knees, and sometimes to commit suicide.
Sheila has combined her leadership talent, her skills at collaborating at every level within the community, her perceptiveness and sustained nature of her personal mission, to co-found LEAD, a grass roots non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the education and awareness of depression as medically treatable condition, eliminating barriers to treatment, and collaborating with community institutions to affect positive and lasting change.
