Life Worth Living 5K and Walk

03/07/2026

Check out this year's shirt design!! Register early for best price. www.runsignup.com/lifeworthliving5k

02/17/2026

This year's Life Worth Living 5K and Walk is August 16, 2026! Please continue to support this important community event!!!!

The Life Worth Living 5K and WALK is on Sunday August 16, 2026. It includes the following events: Life Worth Living 5K, Walk, and 5K Virtual.

12/01/2025

On Giving Tuesday, the Zach Helfrich Memorial Fund will grant a combined total of $30,000 to two phenomenal Central New York programs that are truly saving young lives. Upstate's Psychiatry High Risk Program has successfully treated over 1,000 patients aged 14+. These are often high risk patients with multiple attempts. Elmcrest Children's Center opened a mental health respite in Syracuse. They treat children and teens who need immediate short-term residential care following a mental health crisis. They are both very needed resources to help save young lives in our community.

Since 2020, the Zach Helfrich Memorial Fund has granted a total of $170,000 to local mental health programs. On Giving Tuesday, we would be honored to once again have your support. Please consider a donation through our web page below. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!!!

 All who knew Zach remember his smile, sense of humor and kindness.   Zach had just turned 19 and graduated Baker High School.   He was headed to Virginia Tech and accepted into the prestigious Corps of Cadets, US Army ROTC.  Military service was his lifelong dream.   He excelled in the Civi...

09/23/2025

We can use your help! In the past, I have personally lobbied and wrote to local state and federal politicians for the expansion of 988. It is an incredibly lifesaving service. I only wished it were available in 2019. The system costs over $500 million annually to support. It's been a continual fight to keep it funded and expanded. When 988 was established, the support menu was expanded to include specialized support for two highly vulnerable communities: veterans and LGBTQ teens. Unfortunately, the "press 3 for LGBTQ support" within the 988 menu was eliminated as of July.
I have been a staunch advocate for mental health services for youth in our community. According to the CDC, the su***de attempt rate for LGBTQ teens exceeds 20%. There is a bipartisan bill currently in congress to re-establish the “press 3 for LGBTQ” option for 988. As of last week, it’s in committee and still alive. Join me and write your local congressperson! Help save young lives. Find their emails here:

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09/10/2025

Today is National Su***de Prevention Day.

If you think someone might be considering su***de, be the one to help them by taking these 5 steps: Ask. Be There. Help Keep Them Safe. Help Them Connect. Follow Up.

At the Zach Helfrich Memorial Fund, Inc. our mission is to increase awareness and fund highly effective local mental health programs for treating teens and kids. see www.zachmemorial.com

This fact sheet presents five steps for helping someone having thoughts of su***de: Ask, Be There, Help Keep Them Safe, Help Them Connect, and Follow Up.

08/15/2025

Life Worth Living 5K and Walk is Saturday morning at Abbott Farms! Not too late to register online. Also, race day registration open until 8:45am Saturday.
This is a charity event for su***de awareness and prevention. All proceeds support highly effective local mental health treatment programs for kids and teens in our community!

The Life Worth Living 5K and WALK is on Saturday August 16, 2025. It includes the following events: 5K Race, Walk, and 5K Virtual.

08/10/2025

The weather looks great for next Saturday morning's Life Worth Living 5K and Walk at Abbott Farms! Don't forget to register. It's incredibly important to support this community event which raises awareness for mental health and su***de risk, especially among teens. All funds raised stay local and support highly effective mental health treatment programs for teens and youth.

The Life Worth Living 5K and WALK is on Saturday August 16, 2025. It includes the following events: 5K Race, Walk, and 5K Virtual.

08/03/2025

The Life Worth Living 5K and Walk at Abbott Farms is less than two weeks away. Saturday, August 16! Please register and support this event. We raise awareness for su***de prevention, especially among teens. There will be over 80 memorials with ages from 12 to 72 throughout the orchard. All have local ties, many are teenagers. All funds raised by the event support highly effective local mental health treatment programs for teens and youth.

The Life Worth Living 5K and WALK is on Saturday August 16, 2025. It includes the following events: 5K Race, Walk, and 5K Virtual.

07/21/2025

TUESDAY NIGHT!!!!

Su***de Awareness Fundraiser at WT Brews!
Featuring the Bold Coast Lobster Truck
Tuesday, July 22 starting at 5:00

Our fifth annual event at WT Brews that supports the Zach Helfrich Memorial Fund, Inc. a Baldwinsville area 501(c)3 non-profit whose mission is to build awareness and fund highly effective local mental health programs for teens in our community.
Each $10 donation gets a free adult beverage. Non-alcoholic options available. To lend your support, all you literally need to do is donate then enjoy a beer and lobster roll on WT Brew's patio overlooking the Seneca River. Doesn't get any better than that! And the Zach Attack IPA will be on tap!
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06/26/2025

We are only a few weeks until the Life Worth Living 5K and Walk! Don't forget to register! The 5K does sell out.

All funds raised stay local to support highly effective mental health treatment programs for teens and kids.

The Life Worth Living 5K and WALK is on Saturday August 16, 2025. It includes the following events: 5K Race, Walk, and 5K Virtual.

08/31/2024

What better way to spend a rainy holiday by making memorials of loved ones lost to su***de. It rained the night before the the Life Worth Living 5K and Walk. Although laminated, over 40 of the memorials were water damaged. I know all these beautiful faces now and they feel like family. Their memorials will be nice, bright and new for next year's event! Thank you for allowing their memorials to be displayed through the orchard at Abbott Farms. They bring awareness to the issue and absolutely help other families prevent tragedy.

08/18/2024

Thank you so very much to those who participated, volunteered and/or donated at the Life Worth Living 5K and Walk yesterday!
To those who lost loved ones, its our sincere honor to allow us to display their memorial in the "memorial orchard". Their memorial will absolutely help other families and those in crisis by raising awareness of the su***de epidemic in our communities.
Yesterday was our fifth and largest Life Worth Living 5K and Walk. We far exceeded our fundraising goals. The money raised will fund highly effective, local mental health programs for teens and young people in our community. Thank you so very much. With your help, I'm confident we will save young lives.
Results of the Life Worth Living 5K are posted on the website, www.runsignup.com/lifeworthliving5K Later this week, we will be posting photos. Photos will be searchable by bib number.
Thank you so very much for making this event successful in so may ways. Look forward to seeing you next year.