Celebrating the 2026 Stories of Hope Breakfast
So much gratitude to everyone who joined us Thursday, May 7, 2026, for our Stories of Hope Breakfast. It was truly an inspiring and hope filled morning together!
We invite you to watch (or rewatch!) the recording and to share this video with your faith communities. We’ll be sharing more reflections and highlights in the days and weeks to come.
As we announced at the Stories of Hope Breakfast, we are thrilled that The Southside Legacy Fund has The Southside Legacy Fund has offered a $25,000 matching grant to Mental Health Connect to strengthen and expand MHC’s core functions to community health. This matching grant doubles your giving impact when you make a new or increased gift to Stories of Hope!
Southside has already invested $50,000 to help launch this project, and now you can help us reach this additional match goal to strengthen mental health support across entire communities.
MAKE YOUR GIFT HERE - Choose “MHC Stories of Hope Fundraiser” in the dropdown just under the amount.
Thank you for your continuing generosity. Together we share hope in and beyond our faith communities!
Reflections on the 2025 “Stories of Hope” Breakfast
Dear Friends of Mental Health Connect,
It’s been almost two months since our “Stories of Hope” Fundraiser Breakfast, and we’re still feeling so proud and grateful for that morning together. We had around 280 people there, which was a significant increase from past years, and it was fun to see so many faces—both familiar and new—in the space together. Watch the Stories of Hope Recording HERE.
We also felt really great about the level of sponsorship this year. We had nine sponsors, three of which were new this year. A few of our sponsors whose work is particularly connected to the topic of youth mental health had resource tables near our MHC table upstairs to provide an opportunity for all of us to learn more about what they do. We’re grateful for their support—as well as the important work they do in helping young people.