Welcome to a work in progress. BE KIND AS WE EVOLVE.
Courage is Contagious
Vision Manifested- Check out our Digital Program May 2025
In a world where over 230 people die by suicide every day in the U.S., it's clear we need a new approach to suicide awareness. Welcome to The Bridges Project and Threads to Hope.
MHRNC's flagship initiative is a year-long kinetic suicide awareness campaign and traveling interactive exhibit that uses art, storytelling, and collective healing to END Suicide and eliminate the stigma surrounding it.
In our initial installation, over 200 people wove their stories into our bridge.
We made the healing arts accessible through free community workshops, and we educated attendees about the realities of suicide which is now a major part of our human experience.
In May 2026, we’ll return to Queen City Art to unveil the completed bridge — attendees will be able to walk through this massive, immersive installation woven by the community in our 40 Threads to Hope Looms.
The exhibit will have more than 700,000 threads of hope, each one representing a life affected by suicide.
Visitors will walk through the bridge, see their string, and remember;
Suicide is the most preventable death there is, and connection has the power to save lives.
We’re now inviting organizations, campuses, galleries, and community spaces to join the journey,
and host The Bridge between now and May 2026.
Is your space next?
Together, we’re reimagining what suicide awareness can look and feel like—rooted in art, powered by healing,
and grounded in human connection.
The Power of Collective Healing
It is our prayer that by the time this bridge is complete, we will have made over 700,000 connections—one for every life lost to suicide last year.
But instead of marking loss, each string tells a different story—
A story that begins with a string, bridges a divide, and weaves HOPE back into the human experience.
The Power of Collaboration
Thank you to our Visionary Sponsors—Premier Yarns and Universal Yarn—for donating ALL the yarn for the Threads to Hope Looms and the Bridge itself. Your generosity engineered a movement of compassion.
Every Thread Is a Story. Every Story Is a Lifeline.
Connecting you to the power of storytelling and the healing arts.
Inspired by HopeWay's Looms, the Threads to Hope looms are handcrafted by Shane Baskin Hitlon and specifically made to travel throughout the community, collecting stories of hope, courage, and support, inside cute little 'Hope Suitcases'.
Our team would love to provide a Threads to Hope Loom with everything you need
to weave your own healing stories into our interactive exhibit.
Learn how to bring a Threads to Hope Loom to your next gathering or tabling event.
Help us build a bridge to wellness, one string at a time.
Be a Part of the Bridge to Wellness
We need communities to host, participate in, and help us complete these looms—
Our goal is to collect 40 completed looms—each filled with hundreds of threads contributed by the collective community. We can't build this alone.
Threads to Hope looms provides a safe, kinetic away to connect to our own stories. Wether you are weaving in silent prayer, writing an encouraging word, or holding space for others to weave, these looms are essential to the structure of our Bridge. They become the Hope Spans of our final bridge instillation an act as the guard rails to keep us safely on bridge through the human condition.
The Power of Community
Why Weaving?
For thousands of years, weaving has been a sacred practice in cultures around the world—from the highlands of Peru to Indigenous communities across the globe.
In Andean traditions, weaving is not just a craft but a form of community, of storytelling, prayer, and ancestral memory—each thread carrying meaning, history, and connection to the land.
By honoring these traditions, we remember that we are all part of something larger— we are all connected.
To everyone who’s bravely woven a thread or shared a story—you are the way across. You have changed the landscape of the human condition, and created a bridge from illness to wellness.
Bring the Bridge and Threads to Hope to my space!
Education and Suicide Awarenss
Interactive Art and Storytellling
Interactive Art and Storytellling
When you host the Bridge, you are providing a safe space for suicide awareness and education.
We install the exhibit based on your specifications.
This included the towers, the suspension cable, and the Hope Spans, plus educational material.
Interactive Art and Storytellling
Interactive Art and Storytellling
Interactive Art and Storytellling
When you host the Bridge, you will also receive the Threads to Hope Looms, as well as lots of string to weave with.
This is the interactive piece of the exhibit and participation is encouraged.
Healing Arts Programming
Interactive Art and Storytellling
Healing Arts Programming
As part of the exhibit, we bring healing arts programming to your space and offer it FREE to the community.
It's important to the founder that the healing arts be integrated into our traveling exhibit space.
However, if you want more information on just bringing the healing arts program, we can do that too.