The Robert Lee Sutherland Seminar (RLS) is back! We listened to you, and the theme this year is Growing Together: Building Capacity for Collective Wellness. This year’s RLS will be held in San Antonio at the Norris Center.

Building capacity, in its broadest sense, is the process of strengthening a non-profit’s ability to achieve goals and adapt to change by developing skills, resources, and processes that will help each person or group on their journey. And building upon this theme, the conference will have four (4) concurrent learning tracks.

Since 1978, the foundation has convened this seminar to increase awareness about mental health concepts, such as recovery, integrated health, and barriers to well-being. Named after our first executive director, Dr. Robert Lee Sutherland, this event offers a chance for Texans to reflect on critical issues in mental health and promote innovation and collaboration among providers, advocates, consumers, and their families.

Pictured to the right, former first ladies Rosalynn Carter (left) and Lady Bird Johnson (right) with former Hogg executive director Wayne Holtzman (center) at the first RLS in 1978.