Step Up for Mental Health Challenge
*The event has already taken place on this date: Thu, 08/31/2023
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IT’S TIME TO STEP UP, WITH THE STEP UP FOR MENTAL HEALTH CHALLENGE!
Brought to you by Gateway Longview and New Directions Youth & Family Services
When: Registration opens July 24th
Event participation runs from August 1st-31st
Where: Virtual. Please visit stepupchallenge.org
Who: All are welcome to participate in the Step Up for Mental Health Challenge brought to you by Gateway Longview and New Directions Youth and Family Services.
Why: Are you interested in raising awareness for mental health and the challenges people struggling with their mental health face? Would you like to make a difference in the lives of over 10,000 Western New York children and families? Do you like taking part in community building events? Then this challenge is the one for you!
How does it work?
Participants will join the peer-to-peer fundraising challenge by creating a page on the campaign platform and ask friends and family to support your mental health challenge by donating to support Gateway Longview and New Directions. Complete FIVE activities each week. Share your completed challenges, stories, pictures, and videos all month while you STEP UP, prioritizing mental health and wellness. You can even create a team inviting family and friends to join you in challenges while raising money for programs that families depend on. Set a goal! The more you raise, the more chances you will have to win great prizes!
Physical Challenges - climb the lighthouse at Canalside, bike along the waterfront, attend a yoga class, take a walk on your lunch hour with co-workers or walk a pet. The possibilities are everywhere!
Non-Physical Challenges - Mental health can be improved without lacing up your sneakers! Journaling, attending a painting class, cooking a new recipe, attending a concert, a family picnic in a park, meditation, and gardening do wonders for your mental health.
Proceeds benefit more than 10,000 children and families who receive support from Gateway Longview and New Directions Youth & Family Services.
Registration opens on July 24th, 2023. To register, please visit: www.stepupchallenge.org
ABOUT NEW VIEW ALLIANCE
New View Alliance is the parent company of Gateway-Longview, Inc., and New Directions Youth & Family Services, Inc., providing both agencies with strategic planning, advocacy and shared administrative support for finance, human resources, information technology, corporate integrity and DEIJ (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice. Leading social change through advocacy, collaboration and service to children and families. For more information about New View Alliance, please visit: www.newviewalliance.org
ABOUT GATEWAY LONGVIEW
Gateway Longview is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency organization established in 1890 that provides comprehensive programs and services focused on behavioral health, foster care & adoption, community-based, residential treatment, and special education to children and families throughout Western New York.
Driven by core values of Integrity, Safety, Empowerment, Diversity and Collaboration through a trauma-informed lens to care, Gateway Longview is committed to working together to protect, to give hope, and to enrich the lives of every child and family served. For more information please visit: www.gateway-longview.org
ABOUT NEW DIRECTIONS YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES
New Directions Youth and Family Services is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency with a heritage going back 150 years. Its mission is to foster resilient, self-reliant families and permanence for at-risk children in the shortest time possible, by promoting safe, respectful, responsible, and goal-directed behavior. The agency’s mission is promoted through dedicated, caring staff and by employing its treatment philosophy of Normative Culture. For more information about New Directions Youth and Family Services, please visit: www.FosteringGood.org
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