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The SonRise Project is a safe space for parents to share, engage, and help one another deal with children and young adults suffering from mental illness and addiction.

06/04/2026

Healing isn't about forgetting the past; it's about rewriting how it affects your present and your future. We are thrilled to welcome back Alycia Johnson for this week's SonRise Project Sunday Support Call.

As the founder of the 1212 Community, Alycia has dedicated her work to guiding others on profound journeys of healing. She specializes in helping individuals process and move toward healing past trauma while radically strengthening their faith - all through the transformative power of the pen. Journaling is so much more than putting words on paper. It's a tool for release, clarity and spiritual grounding. Come ready to listen, learn and be restored.

Register for this Free Zoom conversation: https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

05/30/2026

How long have you been in survival mode… just pushing through, carrying the weight, and calling it strength?

What if this is your moment to begin healing?

Join us for a heartfelt and powerful podcast conversation on Shifting From Survival Mode to Healing Mode, featuring Janine Horne, nurse practitioner, who will speak life, hope, and practical wisdom into the journey of healing.

If you’ve been feeling tired, overwhelmed, broken, or like you’ve had to be strong for too long, this conversation is for you. You deserve more than just surviving. You deserve to heal.

Tune in, lean in, and let this be the reminder that healing is possible.

Join this FREE ZOOM Conversation 5/31 at 9 AM EST. Register here: https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

05/21/2026

The conversation most Black families were never allowed to have.
So many of our sons are struggling in silence.
So many Black men are carrying pain they were never taught how to heal.
And too many families are trying to survive emotional battles without support.

Join us LIVE for a powerful virtual conversation with renowned therapist, mentor, and author Ajuma Muhammad as we unpack:

🖤 Trauma in Black families
🖤 The emotional struggles Black boys hide
🖤 Why Black men are suffering silently
🖤 How parents and caregivers can respond differently
🖤 What healing can actually look like in our communities

🎙 Topic:
“SAVING OUR SONS: The Mental Health Crisis Nobody Is Talking About in Black Families”

📅 Saturday, May 24
💻 Virtual Podcast Event (Zoom)
🎟 FREE Registration

This won’t be surface-level conversation.
This is truth, healing, wisdom, and strategy for the people who need it most.

If you love a Black man…
If you’re raising a Black son…
If you’ve been silently carrying pain yourself…

You NEED to be in this room.

Tag someone who needs this conversation. 👇🏾

https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

05/14/2026

We are honored to welcome Corey Minor Smith - Attorney, Author and Advocate - back to The SonRise Project. The New York Times described her as "a fascinating woman who moved 21 times and attended 14 different schools before graduating high school, became a mother her senior year of college, and eventually went to law school and became a successful attorney." Her journey of resilience and purpose has made her one of the most compelling voices in mental health advocacy today.

A trained NAMI facilitator with a national profile, Corey has appeared on The Breakfast Club and in Forbes and Rolling Out magazines. Her memoir — called "searing and moving" by the New York Times — chronicles her personal experience loving someone with mental illness and her unwavering fight forward.

This week, Corey joins us in conversation around No One Cares About Crazy People, a powerful documentary confronting severe mental illness and the urgent push for treatment. Her story and her advocacy make her the perfect voice for this moment.

Come ready to be moved.

Register for this free Zoom event here: https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

05/07/2026

Join us on Sunday, March 10, 2026, at 9:00 AM EST as Kelli welcomes back Coach Bev Kearney!

From struggle to stress, this powerful mother/daughter conversation will share the process of building a relationship under adverse circumstances. Whether your child is a teen, young adult, or fully grown, this discussion will provide valuable tools and insights on how to build trust, transparency, and communication.

Recognized as one of the most successful coaches in NCAA history, Bev has been inducted to various halls of fame as a sports legend including the prestigious International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame. Her record of seven national championships is one of the highest among African-American and Female coaches in the country. She has been honored with the BET Legacy Award among many others.

This special Mother's Day conversation is not one to miss with Coach Bev Kearney and her 26-year old daughter, Imani Sparks.

Register for this FREE Zoom conversation! https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

04/30/2026

This Sunday on The SonRise Project Podcast, our resident expert Dr. Linda McGhee joins us for a powerful conversation on one of the most universal human experiences which is the tension between peace and conflict.

In honor of Mental Health Awareness month, we're exploring what it truly means to pursue inner peace, how unresolved conflict affects our mental and emotional health, and the practical pathways that lead us from turmoil to wholeness.

This conversation is for you if conflict lives within you, your relationships, or in your environment.

Register here for this FREE Zoom Conversation: https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

04/23/2026

Dee Sapp, the Executive Director for The SonRise Project, is also a devoted mother, fierce disability advocate, and living proof that you can champion someone else's greatness without losing your own. For decades, Dee has been on the front lines of raising her son, a Paralympic athlete who recently competed and won in Barcelona, Spain, representing Team USA.

Her son, who is autistic and has an intellectual disability, did not get there by accident. He got there because of a mother who refused to accept limitations, fought for inclusion at every turn, and built a support system rooted in love, advocacy, and an unshakeable belief in her son's potential.

But Dee's story is not only her son's story. It is also the story of a woman who learned — sometimes the hard way — that caregivers need care too. In this conversation, Dee brings her whole self: the pride, the exhaustion, the growth, and the hard-won wisdom that comes from raising a remarkable human being while still becoming one herself.

This conversation is for:

✅Parents and caregivers of children with disabilities

✅Anyone who has ever put themselves last

✅People who love someone on the spectrum and don't know how to cope

✅Anyone who needs to hear that YOU matter too

Register for this FREE Zoom Conversation here: https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

04/16/2026

Radical freedom is about the profound, often uncomfortable, and entirely transformative act of choosing yourself, over and over again. Join us as we welcome back Candace Washington, LCSW-C who will once again pull back the curtain on her own powerful journey.

Her story is a testament to the fact that healing is possible, even from the darkest places. She emerged from the depths of despair not just sober, but free. Her unique perspective gives us a closer look at how to design your own freedom as well as how to live with radical self-honesty.

Join us on April 19th, at 9 AM EST, on The SonRise Project.

Register here for this FREE session. https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

04/14/2026

Unlock your inner strength and limitless potential with our Sisters Unfiltered Series, led by the trailblazing Dr. Vikki Johnson!

With her 35+ years of industry expertise and affiliations with esteemed organizations like Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Women Speakers Association, she'll empower you to manifest abundance, build a supportive tribe, and turn your passions into a thriving career.

Get ready to be ignited, inspired, and connected with like-minded women who are ready to rise together and create a brighter future!

Join us on April 15th, 7:30 - 9 PM EST for this FREE Zoom Conversation.

https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

04/10/2026

This Sunday, April 12th, at 9:00 AM EST, Kelli welcomes Nicole Brown.

A mother's love is often described as unconditional, but when faced with the relentless tide of a child's challenges, that unconditionality is tested in ways few can comprehend.

It is a journey through a landscape of shadows, marked by the highest peaks and the deepest valleys of despair.

Join Nikki, as she opens her heart to The SonRise Project Sunday Support Call Community, sharing a raw and transformative personal journey of loving her child through the ups and downs of hyper vigilance, guilt, always on high alert and moving past the "fixer" mentality.

Register here for this FREE Zoom session: https://www.thesonriseproject.org/calendar

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