Changing The Landscape of Mental Health
It's All About The Family
Our Purpose
When a loved one faces mental health struggles, families are routinely pushed to the sidelines—treated like bystanders rather than essential partners and leaders. You are left in the dark, denied answers, and your experiences and voices are silenced.
At Team Be Better;, we refuse to let families be ignored.
We exist to shatter the silence, break down closed doors, and force a broken system to recognize what has always been true: the family is the cornerstone of well-being. We fight to ensure mental healthcare becomes just as family-centered, transparent, and respectful as physical healthcare.
Our Mission
What We Fight For: To make mental healthcare as family-centered as physical healthcare.
How We Drive Action: We Stand With families, Equip them with knowledge, build their Leverage, and position them to Lead—uniting providers, closing gaps, and transforming a broken system into one where families are equal, authoritative partners.
Our Vision
A future where mental healthcare is fully family-centered, and every household has the power, leverage, and voice to lead their loved one’s care.
How We Drive Change: Our 4 Pillars
We do not just offer passive guidance; we hand families the tools, authority, and tactical weight needed to command the room and get results.
1. STAND WITH
Unwavering Support in the fight
You are not alone in this fight. We walk alongside families from day one, offering immediate support, emotional grounding, and continuous backing so you never have to travel this journey in isolation.
3. LEVERAGE
Tactical Power the System Can't Ignore
We teach you the inside rules, patient and parental rights, and institutional pressure points. By building your tactical leverage, we ensure providers cannot brush you off, delay action, or exclude you from critical decision-making.
2. EQUIP
Knowledge that demands excellence
Knowledge is authority. We train families on what high-standard care actually looks like, translating clinical jargon into practical insight and teaching you the exact questions to ask so you can evaluate treatment and demand excellence.
4. LEAD
Taking Your Place at the Head of Care
Being in the system is not the finish line—leading it is. We position you as the authoritative pilot of your loved one’s team, ensuring all goals, plans, and measurables are created with you.
Ian's Journey Is Why We Fight
After our son Ian, a University of Michigan swimmer, died by suicide in 2020, we (Steve and Jill Miskelley) created Team Be Better;. Our organization was born out of firsthand experience with a system that failed to include the support network when it mattered most. We know the exhaustion of not knowing what to ask, what to demand, or how to make anyone listen.
Ian was a student, a brother, a nephew, and a friend who bravely fought mental illness for most of his life.
Mental illness can affect anyone. There are no exceptions, no warnings, and it's cruel and unfair. Mental illness is not a character flaw or a weakness.
We are all stronger together, and team support is crucial for mental health and wellness. With TEAM BE BETTER; you and your family are never alone. It's all about the TEAM. It's all about the FAMILY.
We are changing the landscape of mental health care so no other family is forced to feel helpless. By uniting families and clinicians into one transparent care unit, we close the gaps where people fall through and build a healthcare landscape that honors the whole family.
Our Team
Team Be Better; is supported by a Board of Directors who bring personal experience with mental health and suicide loss, event planning, fundraising and development, and marketing.
Steve Miskelley
Founder, President | Survivor of Suicide Loss (child)
Jill Miskelley
Founder, Director/President of the Board | Survivor of Suicide Loss (child)
Michael Brashears, Psy. D
Director of Family Engagement and Network Development | Survivor of Suicide Loss (spouse)
Dr. Chelsea Garcia, DO
Medical Professional, Board Vice President | Survivor of Suicide Loss (Sibling)
Rebecca Olson
Director of Marketing & Communication | Survivor of Suicide Loss (parent)
Lynn DeNave
Board Secretary
Dennis Klein
Board Treasurer
Randy Beute
Board Member
Ed DeNave
Board Member
