The vast majority of people don’t go into schools and shoot them up,” Vogl said. “If I can’t stay optimistic I need to quit and find something else to do. The effort was launched after the Newtown attack by Hensel and her husband, Jeremy Richman, who died by suicide in 2019. It’s brutal because it triggers some of the darkest memories we have,” said Vogl, executive director at the National Mental Health Innovation Center in Colorado, where the program is based.