You Matter Do It For Hunter

02/21/2026

Huge thank you to Longhorn Steakhouse Breakfast Fundraiser and their team for serving up hundreds of pancakes this morning for our first ever pancake breakfast fundraiser for Do It For Hunter. Better yet was seeing so may friends and family and NEW friends come out to enjoy each other’s company. We appreciate you all!

Congrats to Marissa Zucchelli for winning the Southwest Airline tickets!

$1,700 was raised for Do It For Hunter which will help purchase almost two su***de awareness benches slated for local high schools!

We love what we do and we love that our community is 100% beside us!

02/21/2026

Huge thank you to LongHorn Steakhouse and their team for serving up hundreds of pancakes this morning for our first ever pancake breakfast fundraiser for Do It For Hunter. Better yet was seeing so many friends and family and NEW friends come out to enjoy each other’s company. We appreciate you all!

Congrats to Marissa Zucchelli for winning the Southwest Airline tickets!

$1,700 was raised for Do It For Hunter which will help purchase almost two su***de awareness benches slated for local high schools!

We love what we do and we love that our community is 100% beside us!

02/16/2026

Every part of you matters. Thank you for being exactly who you are. 💜

02/07/2026

Anyone who is in the “I lost my child” club is in the worst club ever. But when you meet moms who are just like you, it helps the grief because it’s shared, and they get it. I always say I wish I never had to meet another mom who lost their child, but it’s always the best too. Today I met Kim Boss and Stacy Cartechine through Who We Play For when they invited me to set up a table at today’s free ECG event in Viera. These ladies and all the volunteers were amazing and filled my heart as they work to protect kids’ hearts. Kim taught CPR all day, and Stacy scanned kids hearts while I shared You Matter stress toolkits and talked to teens about anxiety and the 988 number. I’m quite sure Alex and Lauren and Hunter all conspired in Heaven for us to meet, and they were looking down on us today cheering us on.

02/04/2026

We are blessed to be invited to join this special event happening this Saturday. Do you have a child age 10-25? Who We Play For is offering FREE ECGs (Electro Cardiograms). It only takes 5 minutes, and each ECG is read by a board certified pediatric cardiologist. Happening this Saturday 10 am-1pm at the Dept. of Health building at 2555 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Viera. When Hunter was playing MIHS football the entire team went to be scanned. They do this for FREE Y’ALL! Your kid doesn’t have to play sports to have this done. Just do it. Do it for Rafe. They are out to save a life just like us. Learn more at whoweplayfor.org.

02/04/2026

We are blessed to be invited to join this special event happening this Saturday. Do you have a child age 10-25? Who We Play For is offering FREE ECGs (Electro Cardiograms). It only takes 5 minutes, and each ECG is read by a board certified pediatric cardiologist. Happening this Saturday 10 am-1pm at the Dept. of Health building at 2555 Judge Fran Jamieson Way in Viera. When Hunter was playing MIHS football the entire team went to be scanned. They do this for FREE Y’ALL! Your kid doesn’t have to play sports to have this done. Just do it. Do it for Rafe. They are out to save a life just like us. Learn more at whoweplayfor.org.

01/26/2026

This is good!
If you don’t know how to say it, here it is.
Don’t be afraid to reach out to a friend for help.
And BE the friend when someone needs five minutes (or more) to vent and talk it out.

Don’t suffer in silence—your struggles deserve light and support. Reach out to a trusted friend, share your truth, and let others lift you; healing begins when the weight is shared. You’re not alone, and speaking up is the first brave step toward peace. ✨🕊️✨

***deprevention

ShrinkChicks

01/23/2026

These two ladies Clara and Alex are seniors at West Shore and decided to do their senior project on su***de awareness. Not the most fun topic, but definitely the most rewarding! They reached out to Do It For Hunter asking to volunteer and together we turned this opportunity into making 130 stress toolkits for all the seniors there at West Shore! Today at their senior class meeting in the gym they passed them out and I had a chance to talk to all the seniors about the “why” behind the stress kits. It was so great being able to talk real $hit with them, reminding them failing is ok, pivoting is ok, and to find someone to talk to. These kids are amazing. But they need us. Thank you West Shore, especially Alex and Clara for kickstarting Do It For Hunter there!

Little things build into big things.