{"id":834569,"date":"2026-11-14T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/834569\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T17:16:13","slug":"local-man-walking-24-hours-straight-for-mens-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/834569\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Man Walking 24 Hours Straight For Men&#8217;s Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muskoka411.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/screenshot-2026-11-13-at-4.27.52-pm.png\" data-caption=\"Andrew Cox lost his friend Jeff Courage (pictured) to suicide in 2019. Cox is walking 24 hours straight to raise awareness about men&#039;s mental health.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"778\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/screenshot-2026-11-13-at-4.27.52-pm-696x778.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Jeff Courage\"\/><\/a>Andrew Cox lost his friend Jeff Courage (pictured) to suicide in 2019. Cox is walking 24 hours straight to raise awareness about men&#8217;s mental health.<\/p>\n<p>November is recognized internationally as Men\u2019s Mental Health Month, and this year one local man is working to bring more awareness to the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Bracebridge resident Andrew Cox is walking around the track at the old Bracebridge and Muskoka Lakes Secondary School (BLMSS) for 24 hours straight in order to raise money for men\u2019s mental health. He started his walk last night, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. and will complete his walk later tonight.<\/p>\n<p>For Cox, the discussion around men\u2019s mental health is a personal one. On Nov. 24, 2019, Cox lost his friend Jeff Courage to suicide. At the time, Courage was a third year Social Sciences student at Western University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody saw it coming,\u201d Cox said. \u201cNobody really knew how much he was carrying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 1400 men die by suicide every day around the world. Men are far less likely to reach out when they\u2019re struggling, but Cox wants to help change that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m walking 24 hours alone, because that lonely stretch is what too many men live with every day. I\u2019m walking for Jeff and for every guy who\u2019s struggling in silence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time of this publication, Cox has raised $3350 of his $5000 goal, with all proceeds going to the Canadian Men\u2019s Health Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to make a donation, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/pages\/24-hour-walk-for-mens-mental-health\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">do so here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is struggling, help is available. Canada\u2019s Suicide Crisis Helpline can be reached by calling or texting 988. You can also reach out to the Canadian Mental Health Association crisis line at 1-800-461-5424. Local crisis supports are also availabl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Cox lost his friend Jeff Courage (pictured) to suicide in 2019. Cox is walking 24 hours straight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[273754,102,273755,1906,6623,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-834569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-bracebridge","tag-health","tag-mens-mental-health-month","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}