Last Letter Project is a Northeast Ohio based non-profit focused on a community oriented approach to mental health treatment and addiction recovery, but our roots are in the music scene.  

Last Letter Project started out with Jaclyn Wright and Jon and Michelle Zeit working together to book the first Speedbump Fest after Garrett Janos’ tragic death by suicide in 2015. Garrett was an avid participant in the Northeast Ohio music scene, playing drums as a founding member in Rabid Reason, the band that opens this compilation. More than that, he was a good friend and is as sorely missed now as he was five years ago when the grief was fresh. 

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Last Letter Project took shape out of the amorphous blob of the inaugural Speedbump Fest. We’ve experienced tremendous growth since then, not the least of which being the expansion of our team from its original three-member cadre to the current family of seven, and an innumerable army of volunteers. We’ve also partnered with Project Dawn to provide narcan training in our community. In 2018 we launched another outreach program called Time Out Tuesday; a monthly event that is geared toward giving people time off from their hectic schedules to unwind and explore strategies of coping with everyday mental health issues.

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Though we’re always evolving to meet the needs of the community, our mission remains unchanged: to eliminate the stigma surrounding mental health treatment and addiction recovery by sharing resources and opening dialogue with anyone who needs it. The stigma surrounding these issues, the pressures to ignore the problem and continue on as if nothing is wrong, have cost the world too many people. It’s okay to not be okay!