Events
Place
Asheville, NC US 28804
Description
Join All Souls Counseling Center on Saturday, September 7th at The University of North Carolina - Asheville's campus for a day of fresh air, exercise, and music. The Mental Health Matters Walk/Run for Awareness is a family-friendly 5k hosted by All Souls Counseling Center (ASCC). The purpose of this event is to raise awareness of the mental health resources available in our community and help to end the stigma around seeking help. Mental Health Matters is a public forum for normalizing conversations around mental health struggles so that all of us who need help can more easily access a qualified professional for support. The event will feature a community resource fair with representatives from many wellness and mental health organizations in WNC. In addition to being active, come out to learn about some of the mental health and supportive resources available in WNC.
There will be two course options available:
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Walk or Run around UNCA's Karl Straus Track
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Walk or Run route on UNCA's campus (approximately 5k)
This event is free to participants ages 22 and under. Early bird registration is $15 from June 19th through July 31st and will be $20 from August 1st to September 7th. Every participant who registers will receive an event t-shirt! All proceeds from MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS: Walk/Run for Awareness will be donated to All Souls Counseling Center. Registration fees are non-refundable and this event is rain or shine.
If you would like to volunteer for this event, please visit our volunteer sign up page!
For any Frequently Asked Questions about the Walk/Run, please visit our FAQ page!
All Souls Counseling Center is a non-profit organization located near Downtown Asheville providing compassionate mental health counseling, outreach, and education to those with barriers to access, with a focus on individuals who don’t have health insurance or can’t afford therapy with their current insurance. Our 18 licensed therapists offer both in-person and virtual individual, couples, and family counseling services on a sliding scale basis. We also offer affordable group counseling services on an as-need basis and have expanded our services to place our therapists within several partner community organizations to meet clients where they’re at and make affordable counseling as accessible as possible.
For more information, please visit our website www.allsoulscounseling.org
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Race Contact Info
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Campus Course Directions
- Complete ¾ lap around Karl Straus track
- Exit out of double gates and go up Wellness Way
- Turn left on Campus Drive (road will be blocked off from traffic)
- Turn left down Campus Drive
- Turn left up Field Drive
- Turn right onto University Heights
- Cross University Heights in front of Brown Hall (water station located here)
- Continue on University Heights
- Turn left on Edgewood Rd
- Turn left on University Heights
- Take a left up ramp into large quad, continue straight and take a right at the end of the quad in front of Ramsey Library
- Turn left towards small quad
- Take stairs or ramp Delaney Hall and continue through small quad
- Turn left in front of Belk Theatre
- Continue past Owen Hall to University Heights and turn right- continue on University heights
- Cross University Heights at crosswalk in front of Brown Hall again (water station located here)
- Turn right on University Heights towards The Bulldog Statue/Wellness Way
- Turn left at The Bulldog Statue/Wellness Way and continue towards track
- Cross finish line into mental health and community resource fair in the middle of the track and field