Participants in the 2023 Walk for HOPE are pictured on the walking bridge as they head back across Lake Pend Oreille during the annual event that aims call attention to suicide awareness and raise funds for programs.
September 5, 2023
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Walk for HOPE and to spread kindness
The goal to break the shroud of secrecy around suicide and mental health has been one that Hold On Pain Ends has been spreading since 2015, when the Wyman family lost their daughter, Madi, to suicide at the age of 14. A freshman in high school at the time of her death, Madi Wyman was a member of the JV soccer team and was involved in both her church youth group and 4-H. To honor the teen, the Wymans formed the nonprofit as well as the walk, held on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, as a way to kick off Suicide Awareness Month.