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460+ people served through major community events

What We’ve Accomplished (2024–2025)

In just two years, FCMSPC has grown into a trusted local connector for SMVF, bringing together support systems that too often feel scattered and hard to navigate.

FCMSPC IMPACT

Because the people who served us should never have to fight alone at home.

At the Fayette County Military Suicide Prevention Coalition (FCMSPC), we show up for Service Members, Veterans, and their Families (SMVF) with something many are missing after service: connection, community, and a clear path to help.

Suicide prevention isn’t a slogan for us...it’s practical, local, and personal. It looks like a warm meal, a resource table, a conversation that turns into a lifeline, and a community that refuses to let a Veteran feel invisible.

Every event we host reduces isolation. Every partnership we build increases access. Every dollar you give becomes real support in real time.

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Veterans Day Celebration & Resource Fair

1st Annual Veterans Day Celebration | November 11, 2024

  • 140+ attendees

  • ~100 SMVF reached directly

  • Provided free meals and on-site resources so Veterans and families could access support without barriers, stigma, or red tape

2nd Annual Veterans Day Celebration | November 11, 2025

  • 180+ attendees

  • ~90 SMVF reached directly

  • Provided free meals, resources, and prepared/distributed homeless Veteran kits/bags...meeting immediate needs with dignity and care.

 

Why this matters: When families are struggling, they don’t need another flyer...they need a place where help is human, visible, and accessible.

Military & Veteran Boots Ball

1st Annual Military & Veteran Boots Ball | May 15, 2025

  • 140+ attendees

  • Raised critical funds to support FCMSPC’s mission — strengthening suicide prevention outreach, community education, and resource navigation for SMVF

 

2nd Annual Military & Veteran Boots Ball | June 6, 2026

  • TBA

 

Why this matters: This event doesn’t just celebrate service... it sustains the work that saves lives.

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Care in Action: Support Beyond the Events

Holiday Veteran Support

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  • Adopted 2 Veterans for the Volunteers of America Holiday Celebration through a wish tree initiative ...providing gifts that reminded them: you are seen, you matter, and your community hasn’t forgotten you.

  • Wrapped gifts at the event and supported local service efforts

  • Provided pizza for Volunteers of America holiday event volunteers to fuel the people doing front line care.

Homeless Veteran
Outreach

  • Prepared and distributed homeless Veteran kits/bags at our 2025 Veterans Day event... giving practical supplies and compassion to Veterans experiencing housing instability.

 

Because dignity is part of prevention. When basic needs go unmet, risk increases. When a community steps in, hope returns.

Education That Prevents Crisis Before It Starts

FCMSPC provides suicide prevention education and speaker events that equip communities to recognize risk, respond appropriately, and reduce stigma.

We have delivered education and prevention outreach for groups including:

  • Military Officers Association

  • Central Bank employees

  • Lady Veterans Connect

  • ROMEO group

  • South Elkhorn Church

  • and many more community partners

Why this matters: Prevention works best when it reaches people before a breaking point — in workplaces, faith communities, and social groups where someone might quietly be struggling.

Ways to Support

FCMSPC

Donate

Your gift helps us meet Veterans and families with immediate, practical support and long-term connection.
No one should have to choose between pride and survival. Your donation helps close that gap.

Sponsor an Event

Sponsorships fuel our largest touchpoints...Veterans Day and the Boots Ball and show the community that local businesses are willing to stand behind those who served.

Fund Through a Grant

We welcome grant partnerships focused on:

  • suicide prevention & mental health awareness

  • Veteran homelessness and basic needs support

  • community resilience and public education

  • military family engagement and resource navigation

Why Your Support Matters

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Donors don’t just give...they intervene.

Your support makes it possible to reach SMVF who may be:

  • navigating transition out of service

  • living with trauma, grief, or isolation

  • struggling 

  • or unhoused

  • unsure where to go for help

  • carrying more than they’ve told anyone

When you invest in FCMSPC, you invest in a community safety net that can respond quickly... with compassion, coordination, and culturally competent support.

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Grant & Donor Return on Investment

FCMSPC delivers measurable, community-based outcomes by:

  • Reducing isolation through relationship-based engagement

  • Increasing access by connecting SMVF directly to local and regional supports

  • Strengthening protective factors (connection, belonging, problem-solving support)

  • Expanding gatekeeper readiness through education and awareness events

  • Creating low-barrier entry points for help in trusted community spaces

This is upstream prevention — and it is far more cost-effective than crisis response, hospitalization, incarceration, or loss of life.

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How Funding Is Used

Grants, donor gifts, and sponsorships help FCMSPC provide:

  • Free community events that connect SMVF to resources without barriers

  • Meals and family support costs (food, supplies, accessibility needs)

  • Outreach and education materials (printing, toolkits, prevention resources)

  • Homeless Veteran kits/bags and basic-needs supplies

  • Speaker events and trainings for workplaces, churches, and Veteran groups

  • Volunteer coordination and logistics to ensure safe, high-quality programming

Simply put: Your dollars turn into direct support, real resources, and moments that can change the trajectory of a life.

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