Each year, thousands of participants come together at the Angus Barn in Raleigh to walk a 5K route to show solidarity for family, friends and community members living with a mental illness. After the walk is over, we celebrate our achievement with a family-friendly afternoon of food, games, music and prizes. We also offer a certified 5K Race for Steak run, with prizes for top finishers in each age group.

Can’t make it this year, or prefer to walk or run with us from afar? You can still make an impact by joining us VIRTUALLY instead or making a DONATION! It’s more important than ever to support mental illness research right here in the Triangle.

100% of the money raised by participants directly funds local mental illness research at the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Psychiatry. And, just as critically, it helps call attention to the stigma and significance of these often invisible illnesses, which now due to the pandemic affect as many as one in three American adults.

Your passion helps us touch more and more lives in our community, across our nation, and around the world. Your dedication leads us to record-breaking goals in numbers and funds raised. We believe research is hope, and hope keeps us moving forward.

Despite COVID, let’s strive to go further and do more than ever before. Registration will be open SOON for the 2021 Walk for Hope!

Note: We are prepared to creatively reimagine the Walk as a DRIVE-THRU event again if we must, but we are thinking positively and are moving forward with our plans to make the 33rd Walk for Hope better than ever!