WELLNESS CHAMPIONS Wellness Champions demonstrate their support for mental health through their sponsorship of Mental Health America of Hawai‘i. They support our efforts to improve the care, treatment, and empowerment of people living with mental illness, reduce the stigma of mental illness, and promote mental health. Join us to show [...]
Outstanding Youth Advocate Waipahu High School's Youth for Safety Club is a group of student leaders who advocate for the wellbeing and safety of students on the Leeward Coast. They have been strong advocates for suicide prevention, prevention of domestic violence, traffic safety, anti-bullying, and underage drinking prevention. They continue to engage the students and [...]
Outstanding Family Advocate Pualani Kamaunu Basbas has tirelessly worked in advocacy for more than a decade in improving the life of both the children and adolescents with more severe mental health issues as well as their families to traverse our complex mental health system. She has served as a family advocate in many [...]
Outstanding Community Mental Health Leader Dr. Jeanelle Sugimoto-Matsuda has provided leadership and support in a number of community task forces, research projects and policy initiatives on suicide prevention and mental health. As an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, she built thriving partnerships on each island that continue today as she [...]
Outstanding Community Mental Health Leader Dr. Loraine Fleming’s passionate beliefs about people, environment, health, learning, and nursing, together with her vast expertise in behavioral health science, have led to her tremendous contribution to Hawaii’s mental health community. Dr. Fleming served as Director of Behavioral Health at Queen’s Medical Center for the past 10 years. In [...]
Outstanding Business Leader Hawaii News Now commissioned and broadcast the documentary “No Room in Paradise” which shed light on the root causes of homelessness in Hawaii. This production was the first large media project to illustrate mental illness as one of the root causes of homelessness. With this documentary, Hawaii News Now educated local audiences [...]
Outstanding Adult Mental Health Consumer Advocate & Government Leader Randy Hack has been a staunch advocate for mental health consumers in Hawaii for over twenty-five years. He is the Consumer Advisor for the Department of Health Adult Mental Health Division and has served in key roles with NAMI Hawaii, Mental Health America of Hawaii and [...]
