CLEVELAND, OHIO | August 2026 Save Our Families is proud to announce that we will serve as the official Cuyahoga County Organizer for Save a Life Day 2026, taking place Thursday, September 24, 2026.

Save a Life Day is a nationwide grassroots day of action focused on putting lifesaving naloxone directly into the hands of communities. What began as an effort in two West Virginia counties has grown into a movement reaching all 50 states. On Save a Life Day, organizations and volunteers across the country distribute free naloxone, provide overdose response education, connect with neighbors, and strengthen community access to the tools needed to prevent fatal overdoses.

For Save Our Families, being selected to organize Cuyahoga County is about more than coordinating a single day of events. It is an opportunity to build a countywide network of people and organizations committed to keeping our neighbors alive.

One County. One Day. Thousands of Opportunities to Save a Life.

As Cuyahoga County Organizer, Save Our Families will work with community organizations, businesses, service providers, neighborhood leaders, volunteers, and residents to expand the reach of Save a Life Day throughout the county.

County Organizers serve as the local infrastructure behind Save a Life Day, helping coordinate events, recruit volunteers, support naloxone distribution, connect participating organizations, and collect local impact data.

Our goal is simple: make naloxone visible, accessible, and available wherever people are.

We want to see Save a Life Day reach beyond traditional health and social service settings. Naloxone belongs in neighborhoods, barbershops, beauty salons, libraries, businesses, faith communities, community centers, colleges, recovery spaces, outreach programs, and anywhere else people gather.

Because overdose does not happen only inside institutions, overdose prevention cannot live only inside institutions either.

Why Save a Life Day Matters

Naloxone can reverse an opioid overdose and provide the critical time needed for a person to survive. Access matters, but so does making sure everyday people feel confident carrying and using it. Save a Life Day is helping normalize that idea nationwide.

In 2025, participating communities distributed approximately 133,000 doses of naloxone in a single day, demonstrating what becomes possible when communities organize around access rather than stigma. On September 24, Save Our Families will be part of that movement.

Our work will center on a principle that has always guided Save Our Families: community care saves lives.

We believe people closest to the challenges facing our neighborhoods must also be equipped with the resources, knowledge, relationships, and power to respond to them.

We Need Cuyahoga County With Us

Save Our Families is now recruiting volunteers who want to help make Save a Life Day 2026 successful throughout Cuyahoga County.

Volunteers may support activities such as:

• Naloxone distribution
• Community outreach
• Overdose response education
• Event setup and breakdown
• Supply preparation
• Community engagement
• Data collection and event support
• Connecting residents with local resources

Previous experience is not required. Training and additional information will be provided to participating volunteers.

Volunteer for Save a Life Day 2026

Date: Thursday, September 24, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM
County: Cuyahoga County, Ohio
County Organizer: Save Our Families

Sign Up to Volunteer

Organizations, businesses, community groups, and neighborhood leaders interested in participating, hosting a distribution location, or collaborating with Save Our Families are also encouraged to connect with us.

This Is Bigger Than One Day

Save a Life Day creates a powerful moment of national action, but our responsibility does not end on September 24.

Every naloxone kit placed into someone’s hands represents another person prepared to respond. Every conversation challenges stigma. Every volunteer becomes another point of connection. Every organization that opens its doors expands the community’s safety net.

Our vision is not simply to respond to an overdose. It is to build communities where people have the resources, knowledge, dignity, and support necessary to survive long enough to heal, grow, and thrive.

On September 24, Cuyahoga County shows up for Cuyahoga County.

About Save Our Families

Save Our Families strengthens underserved communities and empowers the next generation through growth, education, unity, healing, and community care. Through overdose prevention, disease prevention, community outreach, education, basic-needs support, testing, and resource connection, we work alongside residents to build healthier and more equitable communities.

Save Our Families
4394 Pearl Road
Cleveland, Ohio
216-282-4292
info@saveour.family

Learn more about the national Save a Life Day movement: savealife.day