Stephens City Out of the Darkness Community Walk

For today's show, I met up with Winter Brooks at Espresso Bar Cafe to have a conversation about the Stephens City Out of the Darkness Community Walk. Winter serves as the co-chair for this year's suicide prevention walk, now in it's ninth year, as well as Executive Board Team Chairperson for the Virginia chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She gave us details about the walk happening on Saturday, October 14, 2023. The event opens at 9am with the walk getting officially underway at 10am. There will be an opening ceremony at Sherando High School's football field with the walk continuing into Sherando Park. We talked about the significance of the honor beads and the camaraderie that happens at the event, plus she told me about all the resource partners who will be on hand to offer valuable information. Winter also gave details about several new activities that have been added this year and told us about the two new Hope Benches that they've recently acquired. Stay up to date on local activities and fundraisers and get to know other event participants by joining the event Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/324693571478203. Raise $150 by 10/14/2023 and receive an official Out of the Darkness T-shirt! Register or donate at afsp.org/stephenscity.   Are you in a crisis? Call or text 988 or text TALK to 741741