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 the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.