Do you serve families outside Greeley and Weld County?

Yes. Our home is Greeley and our youth program starts here in Weld County, but our memorials program serves families anywhere in Colorado, including Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, Evans, Longmont, and the rest of Northern Colorado.

What does a memorial for a suicide loss cost my family?

Nothing. We fund the bench, tree, or garden dedication and cover the paperwork. Families in Greeley, Weld County, and across Colorado do not pay us, and we do not ask for a donation in return.

Where can a memorial bench be placed in Northern Colorado?

You choose the place. It can be a park in Greeley, a trail in Weld County, a school ground, a church, or anywhere else that meant something to the person you lost. We handle every conversation with the city, the parks department, or whoever else has to sign off.

Who can be referred to the Youth Social Engagement Program?

Young people aged 13 to 18 in Greeley and Weld County who are grieving, isolated, or struggling. A parent, teacher, coach, counselor, or community partner can refer them, and a parent or legal guardian must give consent before a young person takes part.

How long does it take to hear back?

We are volunteer-run, so give us a few days. Every request from a Northern Colorado family gets a real reply from a person, not an automated message.

Programs

We build. We grow. We show up. Here's the real work, who it's for, and where your support goes.

Launching fall 2026

Youth Social Engagement Program

Every kid deserves something that's theirs.

Isolation is one of the biggest risks a grieving or struggling young person faces. This program pushes back against that. We connect young people aged 13 to 18 to something that belongs to them, a sport, a creative pursuit, a skill they've always wanted to try, and we cover the cost so money is never the reason a kid gets left out. Then we surround them with coaches, mentors, and peers who show up, week after week.

This is about getting a kid back into the real world. Out of their room, off their phone, and into a place where real people know their name. That's where friendships start. That's where a kid builds a support system that can grow with them for years, the kind of network that catches someone long before a hard day becomes a tragedy.

We meet a kid where their interest already is. If they've always wanted to work with their hands, we can get them into welding. If they love a show like Forged in Fire, we can find them a place to learn to forge their own blade. If it's horses, they can learn to ride. If it's music, art, photography, a sport, a trade, we chase down whatever lights them up and we open the door and pay the way. A lot of these are things a kid would never have been exposed to otherwise.

Because the point underneath all of it is this: we want a young person who feels like life has no purpose to find out there's one worth showing up for. The teenage years are hard, and the feelings that come with them are big and loud. We want kids to know those feelings are real but they are not permanent. Emotions change. Bad days pass. Things get better. And we want to walk alongside them while they build the resilience and the strength to get through the tough days, so they've got it for the rest of their lives.

How it works:

We find kids two ways. An adult who knows them, a parent, a teacher, a school counselor, can refer a young person to us. And we work directly with community partners to identify kids who are grieving, isolated, or at risk and would benefit from being pulled into something.
Once a young person is referred, we talk with them about what they're actually interested in, then we get them into it and cover the cost. A parent or legal guardian is contacted and must give consent before any young person takes part.

What a kid gets:

An activity that's truly theirs, fully paid for.
A hobby or passion they might never have found on their own.
Real friendships, built face to face.
A support system that grows with them for years.
Coaches and mentors who show up consistently.
Peers going through their own version of the same thing.
A reason to be somewhere, with people, instead of alone.
The truth that hard feelings pass, and life has a purpose worth showing up for.

Who it's for: Young people aged 13 to 18 in Weld County affected by suicide loss, isolation, or mental health struggles.

Memorials

Somewhere to put the grief.

Bronze plaque on a memorial bench reading: For our father, Claude Forget, who found pleasure in the pathless woods, and inspired us to do the same. — The memorial bench for Claude Forgét, placed in 2015. The project that started this foundation.

When someone dies by suicide, families are often left without a place to go. Many are cremated. There was no goodbye, no burial, no ground to stand on. We build that place.

We fund and place memorial benches, trees, and garden dedications so families have somewhere real to visit. A place to grieve, to feel close to the person they lost, and eventually to sit and remember them and feel something other than grief. Sometimes you need a physical place to help you carry a loss, and that is what these memorials are for.

The family chooses where it goes. Somewhere that meant something to the person they lost, or somewhere they will actually want to visit. From there we handle the rest: the funding, the paperwork, and every conversation with the city, the parks department, or whoever else has to sign off. A grieving family should not have to chase permits.

We serve families across Colorado.

Who it's for: Families anywhere in Colorado who have lost someone to suicide.

Coming 2027

Community Garden

A place to grow something back.

We are building a community garden in Weld County as a public place for anyone in our community touched by suicide loss. It is open to all ages and all forms of loss. The garden is also a hands-on part of our Youth Social Engagement Program. Families, friends, and youth work side by side, planting and tending something that grows. It is a place to show up, build something real, and connect with others who understand.

Dedicated beds will honor specific people we have lost, alongside shared plantings the whole community tends together. Grief and growth in the same place, one row at a time.

The garden is not open yet. We are currently looking for possible locations and for volunteers who want to help us build it. If that is you, get in touch.

Who it's for: Anyone in our community touched by suicide loss, of any age. It is also a hands-on part of our Youth Social Engagement Program.

FAQ

Questions from families in Greeley and Weld County

Do you serve families outside Greeley and Weld County?: Yes. Our home is Greeley and our youth program starts here in Weld County, but our memorials program serves families anywhere in Colorado, including Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, Evans, Longmont, and the rest of Northern Colorado.
What does a memorial for a suicide loss cost my family?: Nothing. We fund the bench, tree, or garden dedication and cover the paperwork. Families in Greeley, Weld County, and across Colorado do not pay us, and we do not ask for a donation in return.
Where can a memorial bench be placed in Northern Colorado?: You choose the place. It can be a park in Greeley, a trail in Weld County, a school ground, a church, or anywhere else that meant something to the person you lost. We handle every conversation with the city, the parks department, or whoever else has to sign off.
Who can be referred to the Youth Social Engagement Program?: Young people aged 13 to 18 in Greeley and Weld County who are grieving, isolated, or struggling. A parent, teacher, coach, counselor, or community partner can refer them, and a parent or legal guardian must give consent before a young person takes part.
How long does it take to hear back?: We are volunteer-run, so give us a few days. Every request from a Northern Colorado family gets a real reply from a person, not an automated message.

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