I am a proud supporter of and volunteer with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). In 2024, Dylan planned and executed the first AFSP Out of the Darkness ever to be held in Kotzebue, Alaska. He repeated these efforts in 2025. In 2023, he joined thousands of residents from the Pittsburgh Region in AFSP’s Out of the Darkness Walk. He joined the AFSP Planning Committee to help pull this event together and joined his employer’s walk team under the banner of UPMC Western Behavioral Health; over 300 UPMC employees and their family members joined the team. Additionally, he supports the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Public advocacy and volunteering is not just a fulfillment of personal and professional interests. It is an answer to the American Counseling Association’s call to participate in this type of advocacy (2014).

American Counseling Association. (2014). 2014 ACA code of ethics. https://www.counseling.org/docs/default-source/default-document-library/2014-code-of-ethics-finaladdress.pdf