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💙 Find Your Anchor: A Little Reminder That You’re Not Alone 💙

We’re excited to continue our Find Your Anchor Box series by sharing another box making its way into our community!

Coalition member Joann Rosengarten recently placed a Find Your Anchor Box at Bluffton University, creating a space where students and others in the campus community can find a little encouragement, hope, and connection when they need it.

Each Find Your Anchor Box contains small reminders that you matter, you are not alone, and there is help available. Sometimes, a simple message of hope can make a difference in someone’s day. 💙

Thank you, Joann, for helping us spread these messages throughout our community!

📍 Find Your Anchor Boxes are being placed in locations throughout Allen, Auglaize & Hardin Counties.

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Su***de prevention is a year-round commitment. The work of showing up for the people in our lives is for all twelve. Stronger Together: Connect. Support. Prevent. samhsa.gov/mental-health/suicidal-behavior/prevention
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⚓️ Another Find Your Anchor Box Has Found a Home! 💙

We’re excited to announce that a Find Your Anchor Box has been placed at the Veteran’s Food Pantry, located at 1570 C N. Main Street, Lima, Ohio.

This box is filled with small reminders of hope, encouragement, connection, and resources—because sometimes a simple message or a reminder that someone cares can make a difference.

💙 This box was placed by coalition member Tim Zennie, helping us bring these messages of hope to another place in our community.

If you visit the Veteran’s Food Pantry, be sure to look for the Find Your Anchor Box and take a moment to explore what’s inside. And if you need something from the box, it’s there for you. 💙

One box. One reminder. One moment of connection.
You matter. You are not alone.

⚓️ Find Your Anchor. Find Your Hope.

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Something special is coming to our community this September.

This Su***de Prevention Awareness Month, the Allen, Auglaize, & Hardin Counties Su***de Prevention Coalition is launching 25 Find Your Anchor Boxes throughout our community.

💙 What are they?
Little blue boxes filled with reminders of hope, encouragement, resources, and things that can help someone feel a little less alone.

And you never know where you might find one…

📚 A library
☕ A coffee shop
🌳 A community space or park
💙 Or even placed directly into the hands of someone who needs it.

25 boxes. 25 places. One community that cares. ⚓

We’re sharing more about this special project — including what to do if you find a box — on our blog.

👉 Read the full story and follow along as we launch Find Your Anchor throughout Allen, Auglaize, and Hardin Counties this September.

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YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID

Would you know what to do if a young person in your life was experiencing a mental health or substance use challenge?

Youth Mental Health First Aid teaches adults how to recognize the signs, respond appropriately, and connect youth with the support they need.

This training is ideal for parents, teachers, school staff, coaches, youth group leaders, and other adults who work with young people ages 12–18.

Tuesday, October 20, 2026
9:00 AM–4:00 PM
Auglaize County ESC, Wapakoneta

To register: email [email protected]
Registration deadline: October 13

Help us create safer, healthier communities by becoming better prepared to support the young people in your life.

Opening up about your mental health journey—good, bad, or messy—creates space for healing. Let’s make silence a thing of the past. Start a conversation. Be the difference. ***dePreventionMonth

MAKE IT AWKWARD. START THE CONVERSATION.

We LOVE this campaign from our neighbors at the Hancock County Board of Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services! 💚

Sometimes the conversations that feel the most uncomfortable are the ones that matter the most. Asking someone, “Are you okay?” or having the courage to ask about su***de can feel awkward—but starting that conversation could make all the difference.

The Make It Awkward video series is opening the door to real conversations about mental health, su***de prevention, and looking out for the people around us. We especially love that it features members of Hancock County Law Enforcement sharing their experiences and perspectives. 👏

So let's make it a little less awkward to talk about the things that matter.

Check on your friends. Ask the question. Start the conversation. Be there. ❤️

Thank you, Hancock County, for reminding us that sometimes a little awkwardness can lead to a whole lot of hope.

👉 Watch. Share. Talk about it.

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Awkward Cops 2 1 Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Today, in honor of World Su***de Prevention Day, pause with us for a moment of silence to honor those we’ve lost. Together, we remember. Together, we act.