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SAM'SOATHWHAT'S HIDDEN DOESN'T HEAL

About Sam's OATH

Choose OATH over silence.

Sam's OATH is a movement for people affected by a loved one's substance use or mental health challenges, and for those who stand beside them. It encourages Openness, Authenticity, Togetherness, and Healing as alternatives to silence, stigma, and isolation.

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Our mission

Encouraging Openness. Inspiring Healing.

Sam's OATH is a 501(c)(3) public charity. Substance use and mental health challenges touch far more lives than the person experiencing them. Fear, uncertainty, stigma, and judgment often push families, friends, coworkers, and supporters toward silence.

Sam's OATH offers a different response. By practicing Openness, Authenticity, Togetherness, and Healing, people can acknowledge what is real, accept support, and make room for healing, including their own.

Who Sam's OATH is for

When a loved one's challenges affect your life

For parents, spouses, partners, siblings, children, relatives, friends, and people living with loss.

When you stand beside someone affected

For friends, coworkers, neighbors, relatives, and others supporting a person carrying these experiences.

How the movement works

Learn. Practice. Contribute.

Choose OATH →

Join Sam's OATH using the path and level of identification that fit you.

Ways to take part

Choose the level of participation that fits.

Why Sam

Sam is the inspiration. OATH is the practice.

Sam lived with uncommon openness and authenticity. After Sam's death, one honest conversation revealed how many people had been carrying similar experiences in silence.

Read Sam's Story

Choose OATH over silence

Bring OATH into the way you respond.

Whether these experiences are part of your life or you stand beside someone carrying them, begin with one honest, thoughtful step.

Join Sam's OATH