Mental Health Awareness Month 2024
For the month of May, the Hogg Foundation is celebrating Mental Health Awareness Month. Throughout the month we’ll be highlighting stories of recovery, strides in mental health policy, and the many things our grantee partners are doing to transform mental health in their communities.
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Video Submissions
May is mental health awareness month and we want to hear from you! The theme for this month is, “Your, My, Our, Mental Health Matters.” Throughout the month we are asking for short videos from Texas residents describing what the above phrase means to them. The Hogg Foundation is asking for videos up to 60-seconds. The first 25 complete submissions will receive a free T-shirt as a thank you.
PeerFest 2024
This past April people from communities across the state attended PeerFest 2024, a Texas-flavored celebration of recovery and wellness. Across three days, people were given a rare chance to tap into a wider community of people who use their personal recovery journeys to advocate for broader change in mental health.
In case you couldn’t make it, or would just like to relive this one-of-a-kind experience, we offer the following sights and sounds from PeerFest 2024, an event which exemplifies how Your, My, Our, Mental Health Matters.
PeerFest in Pictures
PeerFest Playlist
Recent Hogg Highlights
A Q&A with Emily Ibarra, Hogg Foundation Program Fellow
In November of 2023, the Hogg Foundation hired Emily Ibarra as its first-ever Program Fellow. In this role, she supports learning efforts around community development/public health throughout the foundation and with external stakeholders across Texas.
Rosalynn Carter: Her Legacy as a Mental Health Champion Lives On
The nation and the world recently lost a long-time champion for mental health. Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter passed away on Sunday, November 19, 2023. In this blog post, we honor her memory.
Honoring a Mental Health Pioneer
Dr. Melvin P. Sikes was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, the renowned unit of African American fighter pilots who flew during World War II. He then embarked on a career in academic psychology that led him to the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a professor of education psychology and a one-time member of the Hogg Foundation’s National Advisory Council. For Black History Month, we took a look back at this remarkable man and his impact.