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Team Isaac was established in 2022 in honor of Isaac Jacobson who lost his life to suicide on March 11, 2022.
Team Isaac walkers & donors have raised over $53,000 in the last 4 years. One member was able to use his matching funds program at his work to further support Team Isaac. Walk for Hope funds are for research in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Department of Psychiatry.

Team Isaac will continue on with the WALK FOR HOPE 2026 We are seeking donors and team members to walk and help raise $ in support of mental health.

Together we are joining Walk For Hope 2026 to erase stigmas, raise awareness, and to raise $ to empower research efforts that will one day end mental illness and the dreadful perils that often accompany it.

We are grateful for the support of our family and friends that enabled us to champion an effort in our son's memory. We are grateful for your support.

We lost our 26 year-old son, Isaac to suicide on March 11, 2022. He died in Portland Oregon. We know he suffered from advanced alcoholism & untreated depression. Isaac would have been 31 in April if he had overcome the diseases from which he struggled.
This will mark our fifth year of fundraising for Team Isaac. Last year we raised $17,480, a record effort. Team Isaac has raised nearly $54,000 during its lifetime existence. If have you supported Team Isaac in any manner in the past, please know the we are very grateful for the outpouring of your support. Many of you have walked and financially supported Team Isaac every year. So, it is with great anticipation that we ask for you continuing participation and support fir the Walk for Hope October 11th 2026.
Our efforts continue because we believe our son would champion what we do each year. Almost everyone we know either suffers from mental illness or knows someone who does. We live in a world that sometimes produces anxiety that people are simply overwhelms people. Often, some people do not seek any treatment because of societal stigmas and costs for mental health treatment and medication that would help them manage their mental illness. Unfortunately, there are no cures for mental illness and some people struggle to find the medications that are effective and allow them to live normal lives.

We know our son struggled for a long time. As early as elementary school he suffered bullying at school. We believe to some degree it shattered his self esteem and he later had so much anxiety that he sometimes did not eat well and was underweight in middle school. With loving nurture from family he did come out of that as he entered high school. But, the anxiety and depression continued and were probably fueled by his own ambitions to seek excellence in everything he did.
In high school Isaac worked hard to achieve academic honors. He was enrolled in the IB program, MBSA, and in the Enloe Band for 3 years, including 2 years in the Enloe Marching Band.