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ConnerStrong Foundation

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.

12/31/2025

There will be a lot of posts about how much people achieved in 2025.... but if the only thing you did this year was just get through it, that's absolutely worth celebrating. We're proud of you.

12/29/2025

Thank you for making a difference this year.....

12/27/2025

You don't have to wait for the new year to start setting intentions like prioritizing self-care.

AFSP's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Christine Yu Moutier, shares these realistic tips for kickstarting your individual self-care journey.
How do you practice self-care?

12/26/2025

It’s that time of year again where we begin wrapping up and reflecting on our biggest accomplishments of the year. In those moments of reflection, some of us may tend to find flaws in ourselves and begin to create lofty goals that are difficult to reach in the new year.

Unfortunately, there is an unspoken rule that resolutions should be all or nothing extremities. Our competitive culture has instilled in us this idea of punishing ourselves if we don’t succeed at something, and ultimately we can end up hurting ourselves more.

https://centerstone.org/our-resources/health-wellness/how-new-years-resolutions-impact-mental-health/

12/24/2025

From everyone here at the ConnerStrong Foundation... we wish you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and may your New Year be safe and filled with joy.

And as always, you are not alone.
988 is available the entire holiday break if you need help.

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/

12/22/2025

We are here for you any time you need.
No holiday closures.
24/7.
365.
https://988helpline.org/holidays/

12/19/2025

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!!

You can learn more about it here: https://www.gmu.edu/news/2025-10/center-community-mental-health-partnership-provides-behavioral-health-training

Address

6914 Vantage Drive
Alexandria, VA
22306

Telephone

+17035930966

Website

http://www.connerstrongfoundation.org/

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Our Story

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.