New and Improved Jay Walkers Challenge

The Annual Jay Walkers Challenge is a 30-day team-based virtual steps challenge. Teams work together during September to complete 800,000 steps collectively to represent all lives lost each year worldwide to suicide.

This year's Challenge involved more than just tracking steps; it was gamified to boost participant engagement and recognition. Jay Walkers were incentivized to excel and earn recognition through several activities, including peer-to-peer fundraising, recruiting, testing suicide prevention knowledge, and planning in-person meetups.

By completing these tasks, participants earned points, fostering healthy competition among participants. This system helped keep Jay Walkers motivated to secure a spot on the leaderboards.

More importantly, though, the additional tasks created opportunities for participants to start conversations about suicide prevention.

Check out our Overall Leaderboard and Activity Leaderboard for this year's event!

And a HUGE SHOUT OUT to those whose names you'll see as leaders on each of these lists:

ELIZABETH BLOOM

ERIC BOWERS

JOAN BOWERS

HAYLEE CARPENTER

CINDY CLARENBACH

ANGIE DAVIS

DENISE DRAPER

CHERYL AND DICK EAGAN

DANIEL EAGAN

CONNIE FELLOWS

BILL GREIDER

OLIVIA JESSEE

SUZANNE JIMENEZ

JOSEPH LAPLANTE

JOE LETIZIA

JENNIE MACGOY

CRIS RICHARDSON

SANDY ROTH

BENJAMIN SUTTON

MEREDITH THOMPSON

CATHERINE WIDENER

TAYLOR WILLIAMS

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