{"id":382249,"date":"2025-11-16T04:41:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T04:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382249\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T04:41:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T04:41:20","slug":"you-matter-inc-opens-first-storefront-to-spread-hope-support-mental-health-awareness-allen-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/382249\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou Matter Inc.\u201d opens first storefront to spread hope, support mental health awareness | Allen County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>A Lima organization dedicated to raising awareness about suicide and mental health now has a brick-and-mortar location to call home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou Matter Inc.\u201d celebrated the opening of its new location in Shawnee Township. The space sells a variety of clothing and other merchandise promoting the message that everyone is welcome and every life matters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou Matter Inc.\u201d was founded by Brooke and Rod Dudgeon after their 16-year-old son, Brady, died by suicide in 2018. With the new shop, the Dudgeons hope to keep Brady\u2019s memory alive while supporting those who may be fighting their own battles.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"&#x201C;You Matter Inc.&#x201D; opens first storefront to spread hope, support mental health awareness\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want you to stick around and that you matter to everybody you know and to us as well and to spread that awareness, that conversation starter of &#8216;hey, I know you might be going through something hard but it matters that you keep fighting and you stay here and that we can do this together,&#8221; says Tyler Cramer, Volunteer with &#8220;You Matter, Inc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most people are looking for a friend, somebody to know that they care. Lots of messages that we get is just they want to know that somebody cares and somebody is listening so just that we&#8217;re here,&#8221; Brooke Dudgeon, Founder, &#8220;You Matter, Inc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Store hours are Tuesday through Friday from noon to 6 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The address is 2330 Shawnee Road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Copyright 2025 by Lima Communications Corporation. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) &#8211;\u00a0A Lima organization dedicated to raising awareness about suicide and mental health now has a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":382250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[182903,182901,2646,210,182904,182899,10312,517,2642,65140,182900,5517,5518,39354,67,132,68,182902,182898],"class_list":{"0":"post-382249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-awareness-campaign","9":"tag-brady-dudgeon","10":"tag-community-outreach","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-life-matters-message","13":"tag-lima-ohio","14":"tag-local-business","15":"tag-mental-health","16":"tag-mental-health-support","17":"tag-nonprofit-organization","18":"tag-shawnee-township","19":"tag-suicide-awareness","20":"tag-suicide-prevention","21":"tag-teen-suicide","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-volunteer-work","26":"tag-you-matter-inc"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}