Experience
Peg Morgan was a dignified woman of her era who stood beside her husband and held her family close with quiet, unwavering grace.
Her son, Dave, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and for years, the family navigated the mental health system. They could not write a check big enough to get him the proper treatment.
Then in 1998, Dave became very ill, and Peg learned he was living alone and withdrawn in an apartment in Columbus. She reached out to NAMI Ohio, an organization that supports families, for help. With the guidance of Terry Russell, then Executive Director, and a trusted friend who drove her to the city, Peg found a group home where Dave could live safely and independently. It was a quiet act of determination, shaped by her steadfast hope that he could be better.
Peg wanted a future where families could find hope more easily and urged the Foundation to think bigger and build a system that truly supported the people it was meant to serve. That journey — a mother refusing to give up on her son — became the heart of the Foundation’s purpose.
