5B Hike for Hope 2026

Welcome to the Hope Resource Garden! Sign Up HERE

Please Sign UP HERE

Thank you for joining us as a Hope Resource Garden partner for the 2026 Hike for Hope! Your participation helps transform this event into more than a hike—it creates a place where our community can discover resources, build connections, and strengthen hope together.

The Hope Resource Garden is designed to be an engaging, interactive experience where participants of all ages can learn about the incredible organizations serving our community while discovering how each of us plays a role in supporting mental health and well-being.

What to Bring

To help make the day successful, please plan to bring:

• Your own 10' x 10' tent (recommended), table, chairs, and tablecloth.
• Information about your organization, including brochures, handouts, volunteer opportunities, and ways community members can stay connected.
• An interactive activity or engagement that encourages visitors to stop, participate, ask questions, and connect with your team. Activities can be educational, hands-on, family-friendly, or simply a fun conversation starter.
• One raffle prize or basket donation for our Hope Resource Garden Passport Initiative. Participants will visit booths throughout the garden to collect passport stamps, encouraging meaningful conversations with our community partners. Completed passports will be entered into raffle drawings, making your donation an important part of this experience.

Share Your Story

We encourage every organization to highlight the unique connection between your mission and mental health. Whether your work focuses on housing, food security, recreation, healthcare, education, financial wellness, environmental stewardship, faith, youth development, arts, or another area of community life, there is a meaningful relationship between what you do and the overall health and resilience of our community.

We invite you to help attendees understand this bi-directional relationship by answering questions such as:

• How does your work contribute to stronger mental health and well-being?
• How does positive mental health help people better benefit from your services or mission?
• What opportunities are available for people to become involved with your organization?

Together, we can help demonstrate that mental health is not the responsibility of one organization—it is strengthened through the collective efforts of an entire community.

Thank you for helping us create a welcoming, informative, and inspiring Hope Resource Garden. We are honored to partner with you as we work together to strengthen connection, reduce stigma, and remind every person who attends that hope grows in community.

We look forward to welcoming you to Hop Porter Park on Saturday, September 19, 2026!

Kirstin Emerson with TogetherWe will be following up with you once you've completed signing up with your Participant Toolkit.  

It will include:

• Logistics of the Day, ie parking, check in and placement, etc.
• Social Media Toolkit
• How to sign up a team if you want to
• booth guidelines
• contact numbers