In 2018, April was designated the National Month of Hope as part of a national awareness campaign by a non-profit group in Florida called Mothers in Crisis. Their goal was to encourage others to “think hope” and “make hope connections” in order to help families live substance-free lives. The campaign expanded rapidly from a local initiative to gain national recognition. This year’s slogan is “Hope for Health”.
In 2018, April was designated the National Month of Hope as part of a national awareness campaign by a non-profit group in Florida called Mothers in Crisis. Their goal was to encourage others to “think hope” and “make hope connections” in order to help families live substance-free lives. The campaign expanded rapidly from a local initiative to gain national recognition. This year’s slogan is “Hope for Health”.
Hoping for health is very prescient in this moment but hope has always underpinned everything that Lund does. The word begins our tagline – Hope, Opportunity, Family. People often first find Lund when they are at their most hopeless – can I ever live substance free? Will I ever have a family? I don’t have anyone left to turn to. But Lund can bring back hope through treatment, through parenting education, through child focussed family finding techniques, through school, through therapeutic childcare. People often credit Lund as being the place where they found hope again or for some, found it for the very first time.
Below are some ways that Mothers In Crisis suggests you can celebrate hope this month.
Ways to Celebrate Hope:
- Encourage family, friends, co-workers, and colleagues
- Give time, food, and money to help local families in need – make a donation to Lund’s Mother’s Day Appeal here
- Post on social media words of hope with hashtag #thinkhope
- Share your story of overcoming and going through hard times
- Read to children
- Smile, wave to someone from a safe distance and say “Happy Month of Hope!”
- Clean up areas where there is trash such as parks and neighborhoods
