Awareness Month

Mental Health Awareness Month

May 1 – 31, 2026 Recurs yearly

Diverse adults sharing a relaxed moment in a community garden, representing social connection, everyday well-being, and mutual support for mental health.

2026 Theme

More Good Days, Together

Campaign Representation

Officially represented by the Green Ribbon.

Campaign Description

This comprehensive campaign addresses mental health needs in a rapidly evolving world, promoting accessible therapeutic resources, self-care tools, and community support systems to reduce stigma and improve overall well-being.

Theme Focus

More Good Days, Together emphasizes that mental health is part of everyday life and that a good day can mean different things to different people. It encourages individuals, families, workplaces, and communities to build environments where people feel supported and can access appropriate help when needed.

The campaign can address mental health promotion, early recognition of difficulties, stigma reduction, supportive relationships, access to mental health services, and the importance of treating people with dignity rather than defining them by a diagnosis.

Key Priorities

  • Promote everyday mental well-being: Encourage healthy routines, adequate sleep, physical activity, meaningful relationships, and manageable approaches to stress.
  • Recognize concerns early: Help people recognize changes in mood, behavior, sleep, thinking, or daily functioning that may warrant support.
  • Reduce stigma and discrimination: Challenge harmful stereotypes and make it easier to discuss mental health without shame.
  • Strengthen social support: Encourage families, friends, schools, workplaces, and communities to respond with empathy and practical assistance.
  • Improve access to care: Promote access to qualified mental health professionals, evidence-based treatment, and community-based support.
  • Encourage help-seeking: Reinforce that seeking help is a reasonable and constructive step, not a sign of personal weakness.
  • Address social determinants: Recognize how poverty, unemployment, violence, discrimination, isolation, housing insecurity, and other difficult circumstances can affect mental health.
  • Protect the dignity of people living with mental health conditions: Promote inclusion, autonomy, and participation in family, community, educational, and working life.

Key Concepts

  • Mental health
  • Mental well-being
  • Emotional well-being
  • Psychological well-being
  • Mental illness
  • Mental health awareness
  • Stigma reduction
  • Early intervention
  • Prevention
  • Resilience
  • Self-care
  • Stress management
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Suicide prevention
  • Recovery
  • Social support
  • Trauma-informed care
  • Workplace mental health
  • Youth mental health
  • Community mental health
  • Health equity
  • Person-centered care
  • Access to care
  • Mental health literacy

Campaign Resources & Support

View Awareness Calendar