What better time than now to finally share how grateful I am for all of you and for our youth and families that we serve.

2025 was a wonderful year filled with youth markets, pool parties, backpack giveaways, free haircuts, new partnerships, videos, youth voices project x’s2, cardboard boat races, Grief and Overdose Walk, Fentanyl Awareness banners, Recovery Day, 5k Walk, Youth Leadership Summit, Medication Take Back days, Spagna’s Spaghetti Dinners, moving Handle with Care forward, WC Sheriff’s Office and Marietta PD’s support, OPATA and CIT speaking engagements and new challenges.

Of course none of this would be possible without WC Behavioral Health Board, WC Juvenile Court, The Right Path Board, our funders: Sisters Health Fund, Marietta Community Foundation, Marietta Welfare League, Colonial Dames, WV Credit Union, Spagna’s, Anonymous donation, SAMHSA Communities that Talk, WC Behavioral Health Board, WC Juvenile Court, First Baptist Church Morning Glory Circle, First Presbyterian Church, WMOA Radio, donations and fundraisers.

Our providers who came to our Friday Night Family Nights at the pool; GoPacks, Clean and Clear, Wendy’s, Path, WesBanco, Brightview, Washington County Career Center, Beverly Wellness Committee, Belpre United Church, Washington County Career Center, Ohio Means Jobs, Peer Solutions, Southeastern Ohio Counseling Service, Wendy’s (Doug), Premier Productions (DJ Pat, Mike and Asa), Gospel Mission, Coach Austin Gardner and MHS Boys Basketball Team, videographers Brett Wharff and Andy Hall and podcaster extraordinaire Ben Marshall and John Wharf, Jon Neff and Bob’s Market, cities of Marietta, Beverly and Belpre and Fort Frye’s Wellness team in collaboration with Healthy Communities Coalition, the Marietta/Belpre Health Dept. and Little Caesar’s Pizza.

Our 5K funders, All our Masonic Lodges, Honor Corp, Settlers Bank, Juvenile Court, Horner and Harrison, Mustang Aerial, QDoba, IHeart, Tom TreyCo, James Booth, Judge Tim Williams, WC Behavioral Health Board, Judge Randall Jedlink, Magistrate Kyle Boker, Gary and Marianne Williams, Cathy Harper, Beverly Eagles, our timing company, Jen Miller and her Belpre students for our awards, and our walkers!

There is nothing like community and the support shown to The Right Path.

In our 22 years it never seeks to amaze me when it comes to supporting our youth.

Prevention begins with all of us and our commitment to promote healthy youth development continues as we move into our 23rd year.