ConnerStrong Foundation works to bring awareness to mental health issues and suicide prevention and to change the discussion about mental health.
The foundation also provides outreach and comfort to families suffering a loss.
12/23/2025
9 years of making a difference.
For nearly a decade, we’ve been committed to mental health awareness, education, and hope. Every conversation, every outreach, and every life touched reminds us why this work matters. Thank you for standing with us in the fight for mental health and su***de prevention.
As we prepare to close out 2025, your year-end donation helps us continue breaking stigma, expanding outreach, and supporting su***de prevention efforts. Together, we can keep making an impact. https://connerstrongfoundation-bloom.kindful.com/
Thank you to all those who participated in our Holidays and Grief workshop last night. It was an emotional and yet inspirational evening and we are honored that you shared your stories with us.
Thank you to our friends at GMU Center for Community Mental Health for their wisdom, resources, time and compassion!!
The slides from our presentation will be emailed to participants in the coming days, and if you'd like a copy sent to you, please message us!
12/18/2025
CHECK IN CHALLENGE!!!
Today we are challenging you to CHECK IN with someone.
Check on your happy friends. Your strong friends. Your family. Your quiet friends. Your co-workers. The retail worker or waitstaff. Someone you haven't seen in a while. Reach out to someone and let them know you're thinking about them. Let them know you're there and that they are not alone.
The holiday season can be extremely hard for some. And mental illness and su***de do not discriminate, it can affect anyone. You never know what people are going thru and one kind gesture can mean the world. https://connerstrongfoundation.org/
12/17/2025
We had our largest You Are Not Alone 5K yet!!! And for the 1st time in 3 years, it didn't rain! Getting our community involved in our mission, especially kids and families, makes all the difference.
Youth mental health challenges and su***de rates continue to rise—but awareness, education, and early intervention work. Your year-end donation directly supports our programs that equip young people with tools to cope, speak up, and seek help. https://connerstrongfoundation-bloom.kindful.com/
12/16/2025
Education was a big goal for us this year! With our partners at GMU Center for Community Mental Health and Claude Moore Opportunities, we hosted a Sources of Strength training for 30 young adults moving into the mental health field!!
This year, we attended 8 community mental health awareness events. Getting directly involved in the communities we service and supporting other resources doing the same is invaluable in the fight against the mental health stigma.
Youth mental health challenges and su***de rates continue to rise—but awareness, education, and early intervention work. Your year-end donation directly supports our programs that equip young people with tools to cope, speak up, and seek help.
Lace up those sneakers and Save the Date!!
You Are Not Alone 5K and Fun Run - March 28th 2026
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12/12/2025
We're just gonna leave this here.... as a little holiday treat ;)
12/12/2025
Need a last minute motivational stocking stuffer?
Our ConnerStrong motivational merch is here to spark conversations and break the stigma—one outfit at a time.
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On October 1, 2016, our family’s faith was shaken and our world turned upside down when we received news that our son Conner had died by su***de. If you’ve never lost a loved one to su***de, you cannot imagine the pain and the intensity of the emotional roller coaster that comes with it. It’s crippling…it’s agonizing…it’s terrifying…it’s the worst possible thing that one could ever go through.
Conner was 17 years old. He was insanely handsome, was a fantastic athlete, and a good student. Conner was a son, a brother, a grandson, a nephew, a cousin and a friend. Conner was sweet, generous, loving, kind, smart (and smart-assed!), witty and hilarious. Conner was a piece of the puzzle that makes up our great big family, and without his piece we are no longer whole. It’s true, the rest of us are strong and are holding our pieces together so firmly as not to fall apart, but we were much stronger when his piece was in place.
Since that moment, our extensive family, friends, community and even those we have never met, came to us. They offered love, support, words of comfort and an assurance we were not alone.
While we have lost our child, we have chosen to not have his death be in vain. We know that we are not the first ones to suffer such a loss. We also know that this type of loss is becoming all to frequent. Taking Conner’s memory and turning our loss into something positive, this is the ConnerStrong way.
There are organizations that are focused on su***de prevention and awareness, especially in our teens and young adults. We also recognize that there are organizations that help families and communities pick up the pieces after such a loss. Our family and others would not be able to move forward in life without them.
We cannot change the world by ourselves, but just like the butterfly effect, a small flutter of a butterfly’s wings can make a difference in the world.
