I want to climb onto every fence or tree and yell to the rooftops—let even the birds know—that there’s no time to spare. When a person is hurting, we have to be helping.
Heather A. Martin, Dartmouth Health Children’s maternal mental health navigatorDartmouth Health is a sponsor of the upcoming NAMIWalks New Hampshire, a major fundraising and awareness event for the New Hampshire chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). This year’s NAMIWalks will take place on Sunday, October 5, and features a 5K route starting at 25 South Fruit St. in Concord (a shorter route option is also available). Registration starts at 9 am and the walk begins at 10:30 am.
NAMIWalks New Hampshire is the state’s largest mental health awareness and suicide prevention event. Every fall, thousands of Granite Staters come together to walk in unison through New Hampshire’s capital city, raise funds for NAMI New Hampshire, and break down the stigma surrounding mental health issues.
“Each year, our community comes together to walk to show folks they are not alone, sending a message of hope across our state,” said Susan Stearns, executive director of NAMI New Hampshire. “We are humbled by the outpouring of support for NAMIWalks New Hampshire and Granite Staters affected by mental illness and suicide. Join us on October 5—and every day—as we raise awareness, reduce stigma, and promote help, hope, and healing. Hope starts with all of us.”
In addition to sponsoring the event, Dartmouth Health has formed a walking team with a fundraising goal of $5,000. Anyone is welcome to join the team. To join or donate to Dartmouth Health’s team, visit namiwalks.org/teams/76961.
“I want to climb onto every fence or tree and yell to the rooftops—let even the birds know—that there’s no time to spare,” said Heather A. Martin, Dartmouth Health Children’s maternal mental health navigator and co-captain of Dartmouth Health’s NAMIWalks team. “When a person is hurting, we have to be helping.”
To learn more about the event, visit namiwalksnh.org.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and largest private employer, serves patients across New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,300 providers in nearly every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH. Its network of hospitals, outpatient centers, clinics and home care facilities, spans a broad geographical area. Year after year, DHMC is named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is consistently recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, northern New England’s only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and one of less than than 60 total nationally; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital (Children’s Hospital at DHMC/CHaD) and more than 20 locations around the region; eight member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont, Hampstead, and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Dartmouth Health Home Care; Dartmouth Health Connected Care Center for Telehealth, serving patients as far away as Texas; and more than 30 primary and multi-specialty clinics across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its partnership with Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and the White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials with international impact. Dartmouth Health and its more than 16,000 employees are committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in the communities it serves and to providing every patient with exceptional, state-of-the-art, personalized care. Learn more at dartmouth-health.org.