Mental Health Matters: Walk/Run For Awareness

Name: Mental Health Matters: Walk/Run For Awareness
Start: 2024-09-07T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-09-07T12:00:00-04:00
Location: UNCA

Schedule

Sat Sep 07 2024 at 09:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

UNCA | Asheville, NC

Join us on Saturday, September 7th at The University of North Carolina - Asheville's campus for a day of fresh air, exercise, and music! Mental Health Matters Walk/Run for Awareness is a family-friendly event that aims to end the stigma around seeking support for mental health challenges and will feature a community resource fair with representatives from many wellness and mental health organizations in WNC. All funds raised will support the work of All Souls Counseling Center.
There will be two course options available:
1. Walk or Run around UNCA's newly installed track
2. Walk or Run through UNCA's campus (approximately 5k route)
This event is free to participants ages 22 and under. Early bird registration is $15 through July 31st and will be $20 from August 1st to September 7th. We encourage you to form a walk/run team! Every participant who registers for the Mental Health Matters: Walk/Run will receive an event t-shirt! All proceeds from MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS: Walk/Run for Awareness will be donated to All Souls Counseling Center. Registration fees are non-refundable and this event is rain or shine!
All walkers and runners should plan on arriving between 9AM-9:30AM to allow time to park, get checked-in, and participate in a group stretch/warm up. We ask that everyone meet on the track bleachers at 9:45AM for a brief welcome message, a few announcements, and a group photo. The walk/run will begin at 10:00AM.
To register, please visit https://runsignup.com/mentalhealthmatterswnc
All Souls Counseling Center is a non-profit organization located near Downtown Asheville providing compassionate mental health counseling, outreach, and education to those with barriers to access, with a focus on individuals who don’t have health insurance or can’t afford therapy with their current insurance. Our 18 licensed therapists offer both in-person and virtual individual, couples, and family counseling services on a sliding scale basis. We also offer affordable group counseling services on an as-need basis and have expanded our services to place our therapists within several partner community organizations to meet clients where they’re at and make affordable counseling as accessible as possible.
To learn more about All Souls Counseling Center, please visit our website at www.allsoulscounseling.org
Huge thank you to our Presenting Sponsors First Bank and Mission Health, as well as our Media Sponsor WLOS TV-13, and the many other sponsors and community partners who make this event possible!