About the Campaign

MAY 2026 · MENTAL HEALTH & TRAUMA AWARENESS MONTH
Healing starts with being seen.
This May, the #WeHealUS campaign brings together a national digital advocacy push, a one-day healing summit, and our year-round healing-centered partnership work. One umbrella. Three pillars.
TAKE ACTION
Call or Text 988
Scars to Stars Summit
A 3rd annual global virtual summit on May 22 bringing together survivors, professionals, and partners to advance trauma-informed healing.
Register · Exhibit · Sponsor
Healing-centered Partnership
Our ongoing work building healing-centered infrastructure across the country.
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DIGITAL ADVOCACY
Put 988 on every site.
A national ask: every elected official should feature 988 on their site.
Interactive Map
How to join the 988 visibility movement.
It takes 60 seconds to copy a link. Zero dollars to save a life.

Share the campaign
Download and post. Tag @SAMHSA or @NAMI. Use #WeHealUS.

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Email your reps
Use our ready-to-send template.
Copy, paste, send.

EMAIL

Audit your reps
Visit their site. Is 988 visible?
Tell us what you find.

TAKING ACTION & FINDINGS
Join the movement.
Use our interactive map below.
Now make it your own.
Personalize the campaign email below — or copy it as-is
and send it through your senator's contact form.
988 is the bridge.
Between a moment of crisis and the rest of someone's life.
TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE
The trust to call.
What gives people the safety to ask for help in the first place.
988 — THE CRISIS MOMENT
The call that keeps someone here.
The minutes that bridge a crisis to recovery.
HEALING-CENTERED COMMUNITIES
The world that holds them.
The infrastructure WeHealUS has been building for years.
We're tracking the movement. Tell us yours.
Did you email your rep? Find 988 already there? Spot a new addition? Every report adds to the picture. Share below — we'll keep the receipts.
ILLINOIS - A Closer Look
Illinois already has the foundation.
First state to declare itself
trauma-informed and
healing-centered (SR0301, 2021).
Healing-Centered Task Force.
Nation-leading CESSA Act.
The policy is in place. The crisis line is funded.
There's a gap. We can close it.
When we looked at every level of state and federal government, 988 isn't visible on most elected officials' sites.
This isn't a story of failure. It's a story of opportunity.

MAY 2026 · MENTAL HEALTH & TRAUMA AWARENESS MONTH

Healing starts with being seen.

This May, the #WeHealUS campaign brings together a national digital advocacy push, a one-day healing summit, and our year-round healing-centered partnership work. One umbrella. Three pillars.

Scars to Stars Summit

Healing-centered Partnership

DIGITAL ADVOCACY

Put 988 on every site.

A national ask: every elected official should feature 988 on their site.

How to join the 988 visibility movement.

It takes 60 seconds to copy a link. Zero dollars to save a life.

Share the campaign

Email your reps

Audit your reps

Join the movement.

Use our interactive map below.

Now make it your own.

Personalize the campaign email below — or copy it as-is

and send it through your senator's contact form.

988 is the bridge.

Between a moment of crisis and the rest of someone's life.

The trust to call.

The call that keeps someone here.

The world that holds them.

We're tracking the movement. Tell us yours.

Did you email your rep? Find 988 already there? Spot a new addition? Every report adds to the picture. Share below — we'll keep the receipts.

ILLINOIS - A Closer Look

Illinois already has the foundation.

First state to declare itself

trauma-informed and

healing-centered (SR0301, 2021).

Healing-Centered Task Force.

Nation-leading CESSA Act.

The policy is in place. The crisis line is funded.

There's a gap. We can close it.

When we looked at every level of state and federal government, 988 isn't visible on most elected officials' sites.

This isn't a story of failure. It's a story of opportunity.

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