Remember. Reflect. Revitalize HOPE.

Join us for our annual Memorial Butterfly Ceremony & Community Walk. Take time to REMEMBER those we have lost to suicide, REFLECT on our own journey and REVITALIZE HOPE in our community.

Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy a presentation from our keynote speaker, Lena Heilmann.

Become a Hope Leader

The Memorial Butterfly Ceremony & Community Walk is our biggest fundraiser of the year. If you would also like to help raise funds to support our mission, you can register to become a Hope Leader. Hope Leaders will recruit a team of walkers and set a fundraising goal for the team. The team can be created to honor the memory of someone lost to suicide or simply to support training, awareness and HOPE! Our staff can help with fundraising ideas and will support you to ensure your team’s success.

Keynote Speaker: Lena Heilmann

Lena Heilmann (she/hers), Ph.D., M.N.M. is this year's American Association of Suicidology's Loss Survivor of the Year. In 2012, Lena lost her sister Danielle to suicide. Feeling her world and identity shattering around her, Lena felt overwhelmed: how could she survive the loss of the person who meant most to her in this world? In order to survive this traumatic grief and to honor her sister, Lena turned toward a community of passionate survivors -- survivors of suicide loss, attempts, and despair. In 2019, Lena published a collection of essays written by fellow sibling survivors of suicide loss: Still With Us: Voices of Sibling Suicide Loss Survivors. Lena has also published in a variety of media outlets and spoken on podcasts and at conferences regarding surviving suicide loss.

In this presentation, Lena will share how she found a community of survivors that enabled her to survive her own intense grief. Being able to work and volunteer with people who understand suicidal despair empowered her to continue surviving her sister’s death, even on her hardest days, and to grieve with an open heart. 

Thank you to our sponsors!